Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

This is a very nice demonstration of what HTML5/CSS3 is capable of, and shows how ready the various browsers are for it. Visit HTML5 Readiness

This is really interesting, because I always assumed that online registration forms were easier to use if their components were separated clearly. This post suggests that in fact a narrative paragraph containing the form fields in-line is more likely to encourage use. Thanks to Martin Black for drawing my attention to this on Twitter. Visit [...]

Jon Bounds just tweeted this, which is just stunning: “GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying ‘good morning’ in English as well as several other languages.” GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt [...]

A set of very handy lists of online web development tools, neatly and clearly laid out. Covers inspiration and design as well as markup, coding and marketing. Visit Web Design Dashboard

We often make the mistake of assuming that learning how to use a tool will somehow make us good at the job the tool was designed for. I believe our efforts are better spent on first learning the skills and then choosing the tools. Take Quark Xpress, an industrial-strength tool for graphic design professionals. Professionals. In [...]

I find it exceptionally difficult to believe that I have any skills of note, and keep meaning to force myself to try and audit them just to check. So here I’ve spelled out what I do in my day job, and some of the challenges I’ve faced. Although I’m still not sure I know any [...]

Our friend Karen Strunks has been taking photos of local areas at 4.00 in the morning. Now she's trying to get the rest of us to do the same. Get up at 4am on 4 April and take some photos.

Visit 4am Project

“Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps – we use these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives better. But can we also use them to remake our cities altogether? How can these technologies be applied to transform urban spaces, changing them from the centralized, hard-coded things they are today [...]

These are my links for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009: Us Now: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet – "Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. Us Now tells the stories of online networks that are [...]

These graphics can be seen on trains in the UK. The one on the left was seen on First Capital Connect, the other on London Underground. What do you think they mean?