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Goddard – the state of Semantic Web This paper examines the state of Semantic Web (also known as Linked Data) tools and infrastructure to determine whether semantic technologies are sufficiently mature for non–expert use, and to identify some of the obstacles to global Linked Data implementation. (tags: semanticweb research)

Design View / Andy Rutledge – The UX Design Education Scam If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather slim that you’re employable as a user experience (UX) or web designer. Maybe you learned a lot of stuff; it’s just probably the wrong stuff. Congratulations, you’ve been defrauded. Hope…

India Microcredit Sector Faces Collapse From Defaults – NYTimes.com India’s rapidly growing private microcredit industry faces imminent collapse as almost all borrowers in one of India’s largest states have stopped repaying their loans, egged on by politicians who accuse the industry of earning outsize profits on the backs of the poor. (tags: microfinance)

Lost Garden: The Cutest Kindle Game Ever: Panda Poet It really doesn't seem to matter how much thought I put into it.  Some designs have been honed by days of thinking, some by months, some by minutes.   Some designs are peer reviewed by programmers, by producers, by other designers.  Some are not.  And in…

How To Prototype And Influence People « Aza on Design One of the strongest tools we have our repertoire in convincing others is prototyping and video: turning ideas into high-bandwidth communication artifacts. The goal of a prototype is to sketch an idea and to inspire participation: you are creating a narrative. (tags: development design ux…

CSS3 presentation A short overview (tags: css3 presentation)

Voyager Golden Record | Sounds and Music of Earth Best part: Kurt Waldheim. (tags: aliens communication voyager)

The Breakup of Belgium, or: 15 ways to crack an egg Highly entertaining read. (tags: belgium cartography)

Breaking: Syfy cancels 'Caprica' | Ausiello | EW.com Caprica is toast. Syfy has announced that the low-rated Battlestar Galactica prequel has been canceled.

Boston Review — Deborah M. Gordon: Colonial Studies Understanding how ant colonies actually function means that we have to abandon explanations based on central control. (tags: biology brain complexity insects ants networks systems)

Toilet paper orientation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia There may be hope yet for Wikipedia. (tags: wikipedia optimization) PabloDraw « Picoe Software PabloDraw is a text editor for Windows, designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art, similar to that of its DOS-based predecessors; ACiDDraw (1994) and TheDraw (1986). (tags: ascii editor software windows)

50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers – Smashing Magazine (tags: webdesign resources tools)

Label Placement in Austrian Forms, with Some Lessons for English Forms :: UXmatters tl;dr Plaats labels dicht bij velden in forms. Boven of onder maakt niet uit. (tags: design form patterns usability)

Wonderwall Totally useless. Still, totally cool. (tags: interactive navigation ui inspiration)

‘My Brother, Borat’ – Video Feature – NYTimes.com Cliff Levy attempts to decipher a Kazakh director’s response to the film that many in the country considered an affront to the national character. (tags: film nytimes)