I just love this, and wouldn’t presume to improve on it.
Posting’s sporadic these days. I’m swamped with work stuff, fun stuff and family stuff. Shout if you need me.
‘Nuff said!
Previously announced upgrades to Yahoo!Mail—aimed in response to Google’s Gmail product—appear to be taking hold.
I am an SBC Yahoo! DSL customer, so I already had 25 megabytes of e-mail storage instead of the “free” 5 mb given to anyone who registers for Yahoo!Mail. But starting yesterday, I noticed a progression of user interface tweaks, mostly cleaner typography and less reliance on large color/tint blocks in the backgrounds.
And this morning, I noticed a little change in my capacity-use bar, as the image shows. I now have up to 2.0 gigabytes of storage.
I still want a Gmail account so I can evaluate the customer experience more thoroughly. But given longtime familiarity with the Yahoo!Mail interface, the ability to check personal e-mail accounts from behind corporate firewalls, the improving antispam measures and now the huge capacity, I’d be unlikely to switch completely.
I’ve had the templates on the back burner for months, but this weekend was the time. The Society for News Design home page finally sports its new, standards-friendly, easier-to-maintain look.
I had changed out other major sections of the site late last year. But we held off on the home page until the old design just became, well, untenable. And we’ll still have many old, static pages to update and freshen—but at least the front end of the site came into the 21st Century at last.
I’d appreciate any and all comments from the design community on the change. Post them here, send them to me or run them up a flagpole. Thanks!
This is both the most viewed and most e-mailed article on Yahoo!News at the moment: Bookies Offer 3-1 Odds on Quick End to J-Lo Marriage.
I’d lay odds that more than half of the people who viewed or e-mailed that story will, in fact, themselves eventually wind up married to J-Lo.
Despite the fact I’m quoted in it (a fact which instantly diminishes the value of any written work), Staci Kramer wrote a very good roundup of media industry opinions on RSS for Online Journalism Review.
My only quibble, and it’s very minor, is that I’m portrayed as being “worried” and “concerned” about some of the tactical limitations of RSS or other XML link-syndication forms. And, as such, perhaps I come off in the article as having a negative bias regarding syndication.
I’m neither worried nor concerned, and definitely not down on syndication. I’m just analyzing the pros and cons along with my Belo Interactive colleagues. The beauty of an e-mail interview is that I can republish here everything I said and let you gather from it what you will …
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"If I play too long with Weblogs, will I get splinters?"
Most recently updated sites at top (if they ping, that is). Script by Adrian Holovaty.
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