New book alert: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

Just found an interesting new book on Amazon, Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning. Dan Brown explores the theory and practice of creating good documentation for web projects. You can read more about the book on the official website for the book.

Top websites for UI Designers and web designers

It can be quite a chore to find inspiration and best practice when developing online user interfaces, so i thought i’d publish a short lists of lists to some of the best resources to get you out of designer’s block:

Are mainstream newspaper websites any good?

Google News or website of a mainstream newspaper…which of the two is better for reading, and discovering, news? Short discussion on what newspapers still don’t understand about the web.

Advertisers: Stop Betting Against The Internet!

Another interesting debate [from last year] on Publishing2 - old-media going against the mob. What the mob wants, the mob gets. The power of the internet, behold.

Society of Digital Agencies - good idea?

Society of Digital Agencies - is this really a good idea for the web design industry?

Does RSS Imply Permission To Reuse Content?

Jason Lee Miller discusses potential legal issues surrounding the aggregation and re-use of RSS feeds.

How are splogs spam blogs that are set up as aggregators of content to attract keyword-driven traffic, that publish only the headline and snippet of text, that link out to the original source, and that make money from AdSense different from Google and other search engines?