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Due to the editor's recent change of jobs and big change of cities, this blog won't have any updates for a little while. In the meanwhile, check out the RSS round-up page for industry-wide posts.

And if anyone's got a nice apartment in New York City which allows pets, lemme know…

- Stanton

Jakob Nielsen: "The oldies continue to be goodies - or rather, baddies - in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005."

1. Legibility Problems

2. Non-Standard Links

3. Flash

4. Content That's Not Written for the Web

5. Bad Search

6. Browser Incompatibility

7. Cumbersome Forms

8. No Contact Information or Other Company Info

9. Frozen Layouts with Fixed Page Widths

10. Inadequate Photo Enlargement

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 [Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox]

Here's a nifty widget for designers looking to compare how various typefaces will render on a Web page. (Thanks to Dennis Jenders for the link.)

Typetester - Compare fonts for the screen [Marko Dugonjic]

Vaughn Ververs on CBS News' Public Eye: "The word of the day is: 'overreact.' As in, bloggers and commentators certainly did overreact to our posting about journalists who blog. … If one reads our entry about journalist bloggers, it's really pretty clear what we were shooting for. Brian stipulated in the opening that the purpose of this was an exercise in looking at journalists who are writing blogs that 'allow them to say what they don't on the air or in print.' Perhaps the parameters of this could have been explained a little better, but we thought it was fairly clear. We were trying to demonstrate how many people who are best known as (mainstream media) members are now blogging."

I guess (egos + peers / ranking) x blogging = arrgh!, or something.

We Got Them Mad! We Got Them Mad! We Got Them Mad! [CBSNews.com]

Related:

A Guide To The Journo-Blogs [CBSNews.com]
The CyberJournalist List [CyberJournalist]

Updated related:

Thin Skins [BuzzMachine]
Awright, take a chill pill [The Anchoress]

A few lucky early adopters have already cashed in on podcasting.

Podcasting Goldrush Is On [Wired]

The premiere episode of Chris Rock's new sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris, is available online - and not just illegally from P2P torrent sites, but wholly sanctioned by its network in partnership with the sum-of-all-fears, Google.

The implication from Google virtually becoming users' replacement for television is just as scary as the Googlezon/EPIC threat on the future of news. Coupled with Google's current and emerging dominance in other Web-based services (mail, maps, demographics, even finding taxis), I know from friends in the business that network broadcasters are more than a little worried.

There's something about Google tuning up its own content delivery syndication I find both exciting and disturbing. Granted, this case appears to be a one-off event just tied to promote future viewership of the show on air. Nor is this show the first to tease with whole episodes online; the Sci-Fi Channel has been doing the same thing with its Battlestar Galatica series for a couple seasons.

And then among the Mac folk there is Participatory Culture Foundation's DTV player effort, or whatever Steve Jobs might have planned for that new "Video" tab in the latest versions of iTunes.

As for myself, I spent last Saturday reconnecting my EyeTV box to DVR onto my G5 iMac, a viewing experience slightly better than the no-remote, "get up to adjust the volume" 19" Sanyo television I've had since my happy college days watching movies on Betamax.

Everybody Hates Chris episode online [Google]
DTV: Internet TV on Mac [participatoryculture.org]

Robert Papper of Ball State University: "Television is still the 800-pound gorilla because of how much the average person is exposed to it. … However, that is quickly evolving. When we combine time spent on the Web, using e-mail, instant messaging and software such as word processing, the computer eclipses all other media with the single exception of television."

Our Complex Media Day [Poynter]

God laughs at our plans for tomorrow.

Is the "Future of News" Telling Future News? [MediaCenter morph]

"(Reporters Without Borders) media watchdog said it gives people who want to set up a blog tips on how to do so, how to publicise it, as well as how to establish credibility. It also offers advice about writing blogs from countries with tough media restrictions, such as Iran and China."

Blog censorship handbook released [BBCNews.com]

CyberJournalist points out a new service mapping headlines from MSNBC:

Poly9 MSN Virtual Earth application [MSNBC]

This application, while pretty, certainly isn't new; this site is one of my old favorites which has been around for years:

World News Map [MapReport.com]