Super cool blog with lots of neat design
by Jessica Clark
http://ohjoy.blogs.com/my_weblog/designers_artists/index.html
Check it out- tres inspirational… ‘least I think so!
J
While I’m at it….
by Simon Haiduk
Here are some links to my work from Term 3
Title Sequence
3D After Effects - ( that’s my lady singin in this one )
Enjoy!
I’d be really stoked to see some other peoples projects .. DD06 .. DD08
-Simon
Viral Marketing
by Simon Haiduk
Here is a link to a really interesting article on Viral Marketing
Have You Been Infected?
Just to note : that is the title of the article.. not my personal perspective on Viral marketing. In fact in some ways I’d prefer to have someone mention a product to me and tell me about it rather than see some lame add.
Scroogle? Google? what? the #@%^!
by Simon Haiduk
I thought I’d post this and see what kind of dialog it creates on our blog. It was posted on another network blog that I am a part of and it’s generated some really interesting discussion. It’s mostly about the growing concern for privacy on the web is declining because of the influence Google has over many things on the web.
I personally don’t think there is much to worry about, until other individuals or organizations with deceptive agendas start leaking into Google. But see for yourself it’s certainly interesting.
Here is an excerpt from: www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
It’s not that we believe Google is evil. What we believe is that Google, Inc. is at a fork in the road, and they have some big decisions to make. This Google Watch site is trying to articulate and publicize the situation at Google, and encourage more scrutiny of their operations. By doing this, we hope to play a small part in maintaining the web as an information tool that is more useful for the masses, than it is for the elites.
That’s why we and over 500 others nominated Google for a Big Brother award in 2003. The nine points we raised in connection with this nomination necessarily focused on privacy issues:
1. Google’s immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it’s years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don’t already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
2. Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as “IP delivery based on geolocation.”
3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.
4. Google won’t say why they need this data:
Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.
5. Google hires spooks:
Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.
6. Google’s toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google’s free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that’s only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google’s toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you’d like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk.
7. Google’s cache copy is illegal:
Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google’s cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a “noarchive” meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don’t. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google’s cache. The cache copy should be “opt-in” for webmasters, not “opt-out.”
8. Google is not your friend:
By now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. Webmasters cannot avoid seeking Google’s approval these days, assuming they want to increase traffic to their site. If they try to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google’s semi-secret algorithms, they may find themselves penalized by Google, and their traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time Google doesn’t even answer email from webmasters.
9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.
Here are some links to follow.
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional announced!
by Bart Barlowski
- Animation conversion to ActionScript
- Adobe Photoshop® and Illustrator® import
- Sophisticated video tools
- New Adobe interface
Handlebars
by Danny Chan
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Robyn and Emily from DD07 also wanted to join in on the facial hair growing fun.
Photoshoppery Goodness…
by Jessica Clark
… in bookmark form.
I wrote a little tutorial on semi-advanced Photoshop collage (its only advanced for people who know squat about Photoshop- ya’ll should find it “pie” - as in “easy as”)
http://www.canadiangeek.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=654
(yeah, I belong to a comic book forum. Shut up!)
Vector Pack Competition
by Vinny
Kultnation was awarded as the first prize winner of the Motionographer Vector Pack Competition.
Sweeet!
You can peek at the Wallpaper here
Some of my work…
by Danny Chan
In an effort to support Brett’s request for sharing more of our work on DDBlog, I’m posting a link to my Flickr site. Some of my illustrations and photos can be found there. Enjoy.