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Dec 05 2006 at 12:17pm

The W3C supporters page

Take a look at the W3C supporters page. It costs $1000 to become a supporter of the W3C and get your link on this page. This page is a PR 9. That’s right, PR 9. Now check out all the sites that are listed.

I’ll give you a sec to skim through that.

Didn’t I see some of those in my spam folder the other day? “Cheap Hosting Provider”, “Wholesale Childrens Clothing”, “Dubai Furnished Apartments”, “Online Gambling Guide”??? Many of the links appear to be for legit but it’s these spammy ones that caught my attention. The W3C is effectively selling PR 9 linkbacks from a highly respected site for $1000 apeice.

Just disgusting. And sad. You’d think that google would recognize that as a spam page with all those shady links on it. Maybe it does, I don’t know.

(This was pointed out to me by this post about digg spamming which really has nothing else to do with this post)

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Nov 29 2006 at 4:03pm

Digg has turned to total crap

But you knew that already, right? Admittedly, it was a bit crap to begin with, at least since I’ve been using it. I did find some useful articles in there, and I had fun digging things up and down (especially comments!). It’s a bit of an addictive medium, but that only works when there’s good content coming up.

I have been subscribed to the digg design and tech news feeds for a couple of months now. I liked how the design section featured all types of design. It’s interesting to see what’s being done with cars, interiors, and industrial design. I think all design fields could learn a lot from each other.

Professional Standards in Web Design

Jeff Croft has a great post on what it means to be a web designer. We come across this sort of thing all the time at TWF – people who have done a few web designs and think they are ready to start selling it. They post their portfolio sites for review – what are we supposed to say? Well, sometimes we manage to talk them out of it. Read more…

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Sep 15 2006 at 7:45pm

You have got to be kidding me – Nissan 2.0???

This has gone far enough. That’s right, Nissan has released some new ads advertising their vehicles as “2.0″. The ad in the current issue of In Style describes their mini van as “Family Room_2.0″. Their US site (“turn up your speakers for the full experience“) seems to indicate that the madness has just begun. Check out the reflections on the navigation! No 2.0 site is complete without that! (puke)

Is Digg for Americans Only? … Is the Internet?

My boyfriend recently had a little encounter with some Americans on Digg. It seems that they had a problem with his some of his comments on and this article regarding the affordability of hybrid cars. You can find his responsein the first comment with the username “jeevesbond” (dugg down and out of view, use “show comment” to see it). Now, surely his comments were going to be a little controversial to Americans. I wouldn’t have posted that there, but the response is what was interesting.