QUOTES ON MEDIA TRUTH
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
— Peter McWilliams
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.––Malcolm X
LAUGH OF THE DAY
TECH BLOGS
Here are some of the hot tech blogs in 2011.
There are a variety of types: TECH NEWS & ANALYSIS; TECH & WEB DESIGN; HOW-TOS & REVIEWS; COMMENTATORS; TIPS, TRICKS & HACKS; GADGETS & TECH RUMORS; JUST FOR FUN
Check them out!
GROUP 1
1. 9 to 5 Mac
2. All Things Digital
3. Ars Technica
4. Bits
5. Boing Boing
6. Boy Genius Report
7. Buzz Machine
8.Cranky Geeks
9. Daring Fireball
10. Design Observer
11. Did I Get Things Done?
12 Digital Inspiration
13 Dustin Curtis
14 Engadget
15 FreelanceSwitch
GROUP 2
16 gHacks
17 GigaOM
18 Gizmodo
19 GoodCleanTech
20 Good Morning Silicon Valley
21 HackCollege
22 Hongkiat
23 I Love Typography
24 Joystiq
25 Lifehacker
26 Lost in Technology
27 Mac AppStorm
28 Mashable
29 Make Magazine
30 MakeUseOf
GROUP 3
31 MinimalMac
32 mocoNewsNeatorama
33 Nieman Journalism Lab
34 Noupe
35 O'Reilly
36 Outlaw Design Blog
37 Pogue's Posts
38 Productivity501
39 ReadWriteWeb
40 Scripting News
41 Search Engine Land
42 Silicon Alley Insider
43 Six Revisions
44 Skelliewag
45 Slashdot
GROUP 4
Slashgear
Smarterware
Smashing Magazine
Swiss Miss
40Tech
TechEBlog
TechCrunch
TechDirt
Techland
Techmeme
TechPresident
TechWeb
Unclutterer
VentureBeat
Webware
Wired
Women in Tech
Xkcd
NOT THAT TYPE:
QUOTES ON POWER OF TYPOGRAPHY & TEXT
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear. -- Beatrice Warde
Each letter should have a flirtation with the one next to it. -- Mac Baumwell
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read. — Zuzana Licko
Type is like music in having its own beauty, and in being beautiful as an accompaniment and interpretation; and typography can be used to express a state of the soul, like the other arts and crafts. But like them it is too often used mechanically, and so the full expressiveness of this medium is unrealized. If it is used according to a rule or recipe, it becomes dull and loses vividness. Type appears at first to be a rigid medium; but like other rigid media, it is plastic to the living spirit of a craftsman. --J.H. Mason
TAGGING IN A TEXTUAL WAY
A tagline can make or break a website (well, maybe not, but it is cool to be dramatic).
Ok, so what is a tagline?
It is a catchy phrase or line used to build an identity for your product or website.
Below you will find a collection of current taglines around the Internet. As you will see, blog taglines are often slightly sassy. The mood of blogging can often be casual (although there are some hard core journalistic and business blogs that are much more formal). Some of them are funny, some are clever; but all of them deliver the message!
Pay attention to the style of taglines and text on websites today.Hopefully it will serve as inspiration for your own creative "branding, building a memorable personality for your site that fits today's audience.
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