Rolling Stone magazine made Kaki King the first women on the Guitar Gods list. Kaki has a unique, percussive style that can’t be fully appreciated without seeing it. Fortunately for us, her entire 15 minute performance at TED is now available....
Topics: Good things, Kaki King, music, TED, video

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For years, designers have struggled with integrating interesting, expressive fonts into web pages. Until now, the general rule has been to stick to the commonly available font families — the default stuff installed on every Mac or Windows PC...
Topics: css, design, fonts, Good things, Web 2.0

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There are two parts to your personal brand. First, you need to build your reputation. This takes time and energy, and there are no shortcuts. The second part is no less important, and that’s making sure the right people can find you. Google is...
Topics: blatant self promotion, brand, Business, Google, Personal, social networking

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Joe Clark writes on the culture of antidesign predominate at Google:Companies committed to a culture of antidesign (also consultants like Jakob Nielsen) may occasionally succeed in the marketplace, but they do so in spite of their antidesign, not because.
Topics: design

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A couple years ago I helped build this site for researchers at Yale studying the effectiveness of various “get out the vote” efforts. Scott Beauchamp (a colleague from my Winfire days) dropped me a note yesterday saying the site was linked in.
Topics: GOTV, marketing, Personal, politics, Projects, sms, text messaging, Web 2.0

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