Name in Lights was a competition to find a name that will be created in giant illuminated letters and installed on a prominent UK landmark building. The competition is part of the Fierce! Festival 10th anniversary commission to artist Joshua Sofaer, who devised the concept and will be doing the installation.
The idea is to find the name that will be created. Entries were taken for names, alive or dead, and up to 150 words as to why they would want to see that name in lights.
The contest is closed now and next week a panel of judges will pick the lucky winner. Then that name will be fabricated as a massive illuminated sign (as you see below) beaming out across the city, from Birmingham Central Library.
Go ahead, get your name in lights too and share it with a friend. Flash is required.
I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk
VIA: Larry Hnetka
5/10/2007
TechnoFave Highway to SEO Heaven
In the wake of the NoFollow fiasco, honest commenters (eg: non-spammers) have had a rough go in developing deep links with like minded individuals in the blogging community. Some people may be drifting off into link-comaland and having near death experiences ... wait, what is that I see? Just go towards the LIGHT!
The alarms on the cart next to your bed sound off. Code Blue is announced over the com, and in rushes Dr. Dosh Dosh (or as his bevy of nurses call him,Kawaiikuma Honey). Years of experience tell him that you have just gone into cardiac arrest --- he reaches for the TechnoFave™ paddles, applies them to your chest and gives you a jolt that would of killed you if you were not already half there.
Dosh orders the nurse to inject you with 1cc of Linkittohim to stabilize rush you just received from all of that adrenaline pumping thru your veins --- not from the TechnoFave™ paddles, but the nurse that just gave you the injection has the nicest rack that you have ever seen. Obviously Dr. Dosh Dosh is a plastic surgeon as well.
During rehab, Dr. Dosh taught me everything there is to know about taking my blog vitamins to keep up link strength, and I am recovering quite nicely.
Being a born-again blogger of late, I would like to pass on some of the wisdom that Dr. Dosh bestowed upon me. The world would be a better place if we all would just Fave each other and Link hands.
I think most of you already know the recuperative powers of Dr. Dosh's miracle therapy:
... and now. Back to our regularly scheduled program "Yoga With Bertha" already in progress.
Hear what these happy people all have to say about the Dr. Dosh Miracle therapy. Testimonials abound by clicking on their links.
Dosh's Exchange Primer [Show your love]
Show Me the Money [Show the Love]
Azazil.net [Show the Love]
India PR Blog [Show the Love]
Technacular [Show the Love]
Design Adaptions [Show the Love]
Life in the Fast Lane [Show the Love]
The alarms on the cart next to your bed sound off. Code Blue is announced over the com, and in rushes Dr. Dosh Dosh (or as his bevy of nurses call him,Kawaiikuma Honey). Years of experience tell him that you have just gone into cardiac arrest --- he reaches for the TechnoFave™ paddles, applies them to your chest and gives you a jolt that would of killed you if you were not already half there.
Dosh orders the nurse to inject you with 1cc of Linkittohim to stabilize rush you just received from all of that adrenaline pumping thru your veins --- not from the TechnoFave™ paddles, but the nurse that just gave you the injection has the nicest rack that you have ever seen. Obviously Dr. Dosh Dosh is a plastic surgeon as well.
Road to Blog Recovery
During rehab, Dr. Dosh taught me everything there is to know about taking my blog vitamins to keep up link strength, and I am recovering quite nicely.
Being a born-again blogger of late, I would like to pass on some of the wisdom that Dr. Dosh bestowed upon me. The world would be a better place if we all would just Fave each other and Link hands.
Therapy Process
I think most of you already know the recuperative powers of Dr. Dosh's miracle therapy:
- You fave me and link to this post.
- Post a Comment below with the URL of your post that has my link to this post on it
- Also include in comment, how to Fave you back. If you forget, don't worry -- I will find you with my divining rod.
... and now. Back to our regularly scheduled program "Yoga With Bertha" already in progress.
Participants Who Completed Treatment
Hear what these happy people all have to say about the Dr. Dosh Miracle therapy. Testimonials abound by clicking on their links.
Dosh's Exchange Primer [Show your love]
Show Me the Money [Show the Love]
Azazil.net [Show the Love]
India PR Blog [Show the Love]
Technacular [Show the Love]
Design Adaptions [Show the Love]
Life in the Fast Lane [Show the Love]
Firefox Extensions for Resizing Form Fields
If you do a lot of forum posting or blog commenting, most of it is done online with a provided textarea box from within a form. The textarea boxes are usually very tiny to post any extended length of commentary and causes you to continually scroll up, down, and even sideways just to review what you had just typed. Of course there is the "preview" option, but if there is a correction to make -- you still have to locate it inside of that miniscule box.
First there is the quick and dirty Resizeable Textarea extension which lets you resize virtually most textarea form boxes. The other, more bells, is a Resizable Form Field extension for textareas, as well as select boxes, text fields, and even iframes.
I use the Textarea only extension, and it works quite well. A little buggish at times, seems it will not work if open the form up in a new window. Another user reported the same thing, citing Gmail as an example, works well when composing in the main window, but doesn't work for the text area if you click the "open in new window" icon.
Have not tried the other flavor yet, and as of this post, there are no reviews. Asa Dotzler likes it though, even though there appears to be some abnormal behaviour with it -- such as form fields getting resized in other tabs.
Enter Two Extensions to the Rescue
First there is the quick and dirty Resizeable Textarea extension which lets you resize virtually most textarea form boxes. The other, more bells, is a Resizable Form Field extension for textareas, as well as select boxes, text fields, and even iframes.
I use the Textarea only extension, and it works quite well. A little buggish at times, seems it will not work if open the form up in a new window. Another user reported the same thing, citing Gmail as an example, works well when composing in the main window, but doesn't work for the text area if you click the "open in new window" icon.
Have not tried the other flavor yet, and as of this post, there are no reviews. Asa Dotzler likes it though, even though there appears to be some abnormal behaviour with it -- such as form fields getting resized in other tabs.
Coming to a YouTube Theatre Near You - Web Pages That Suck
If picture s are worth a thousand words are still not enough to teach you about bad web design, then maybe video presentations on the subject will.
Vincent Flanders, who coined the phrase "Learn good web design by looking at bad web design" from his WebPagesThatSuck site, has taken his craft into the realm of vLogging.
Personally, I like his glossy pictures with arrows and descriptions instead of the YouTube presentations. His videos suck as stand-alones, and only come into context if presented with companion articles.
Vincent Flanders, who coined the phrase "Learn good web design by looking at bad web design" from his WebPagesThatSuck site, has taken his craft into the realm of vLogging.
Personally, I like his glossy pictures with arrows and descriptions instead of the YouTube presentations. His videos suck as stand-alones, and only come into context if presented with companion articles.
Three Most Important Graphic Design Mistakes
At AIGA's national conference in September 2005, Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse Studio presented ABC's John Stossel the three
most important design mistakes Americans make. Jessica, a
media consultant of very good standing, holds a B.A. and M.F.A. in
graphic design from Yale University.
Jessica, noticing Stossel's disconcern over the matter, added:
Paul Rand was mentioned in the report. Rand was a well-known American graphic
designer, best known for his corporate identities (logos, if you will) for IBM, ABC, Cummins Engine, Westinghouse, and UPS (original UPS logo has since been replaced).
See the report via YouTube.
most important design mistakes Americans make. Jessica, a
media consultant of very good standing, holds a B.A. and M.F.A. in
graphic design from Yale University.
Jessica, noticing Stossel's disconcern over the matter, added:
"In the 27 years that (20/20) has been on the air, you have never done a story on graphic design. Why is that?"Apparently, Stossel pondered the question, and it prompted him to produce an in-depth report the following season. The report included some font selection guidelines that, up until now, I have been completely oblivious to.
Paul Rand was mentioned in the report. Rand was a well-known American graphic
designer, best known for his corporate identities (logos, if you will) for IBM, ABC, Cummins Engine, Westinghouse, and UPS (original UPS logo has since been replaced).
See the report via YouTube.
Official Firefox Top 10 List ...
Yeppers. This is the Official Webware Top 10 List of lists. It was posted quite some time back by Rafe Needleman, but worth mentioning again.
The lists for About.com and Mozilla seemed to have vanished, but a pretty decent compilation of Top 10 Extension lists from Download.com, Irfan Habib, CyberNet, Simple Dollar and Moleskin . Depending on each list's slant, there should be one in there that will fit you just right.
Read/Write Web is Web 2.0 addons for Firefox, and probably the most impressive of the lot. They take a closer look at what web apps are using the browser as a platform.
The Lifehacker list was for top 10 tweaks.
And after you install all of those extensions, made all your tweaks, then you will need the Quick Online Tips list of extensions for managing...ahem... extensions. I know I will.
The lists for About.com and Mozilla seemed to have vanished, but a pretty decent compilation of Top 10 Extension lists from Download.com, Irfan Habib, CyberNet, Simple Dollar and Moleskin . Depending on each list's slant, there should be one in there that will fit you just right.
Read/Write Web is Web 2.0 addons for Firefox, and probably the most impressive of the lot. They take a closer look at what web apps are using the browser as a platform.
The Lifehacker list was for top 10 tweaks.
And after you install all of those extensions, made all your tweaks, then you will need the Quick Online Tips list of extensions for managing
Google Analytics Gets Major Overhaul
Judging by the buzz around the new version of Google Analytics, there seems to be a lot of happy people out there. Google will be activating this new version on all current Analytics accounts over the next few weeks.
Here are some of the improvements:
Jeff Gillis of the Google Analytics Team says:
Here are some of the improvements:
- Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc personalized report emails and export reports in PDF format.
- Custom Dashboard: No more digging through reports. Put all the information you need on a custom dashboard that you can email to others.
- Trend and Over-time Graph: Compare time periods and select date ranges without losing sight of long term trends.
- Contextual help tips: Context sensitive Help and Conversion tips are available from every report.
Jeff Gillis of the Google Analytics Team says:
Since Google Analytics launched in November 2005, the demand for website analytics has increased significantly. Today there are hundreds of thousands of Google Analytics customers, and web analytics has moved from being a niche function to becoming a mainstream aspect of the business for companies of all sizes. You've asked that we focus our engineering efforts around maintaining the sophistication and features that experienced users want, while also making it easy for both experts and non-experts to quickly and easily find the answers you want.
Open Registration for AdSense Webinar
Google is sponsoring an upcoming AdSense Webinar and registration is now open. The webinar will be held next Wednesday, May 16th at 10:30am PDT.
The one hour broadcast will take place on Webex. Scheduled panelists include Jennifer Su, Sunil Subhedar, Mike Deeringer and Laura Chen. Topics include using channels to track your ad performance, optimizing your ad placement, design, & layout, noticing trends & making proactive improvements to your site, and keeping your account in good standing.
The one hour broadcast will take place on Webex. Scheduled panelists include Jennifer Su, Sunil Subhedar, Mike Deeringer and Laura Chen. Topics include using channels to track your ad performance, optimizing your ad placement, design, & layout, noticing trends & making proactive improvements to your site, and keeping your account in good standing.
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