RE: Action

Is the graphical portion of the Internet interesting? Then you should know about Smashing Magazine . Here are tips, tricks, freebees, documentation, tutorials, themes, techniques and tons of inspiration.

Smashing Magazine has grown enormously in the approx. 3 years it has existed and rounds soon 100,000 subscriptions to their RSS feeds. The frequency of posts on their blog has increased and they have particular Launched Smashing Jobs to capitalize on their high traffic and great attention.
Although there is much else on their site, so is the quality of their interventions and the concept for their blog very viable. Right now posted my favorite posts at the end of each month. A competition where the web designer from around the world send wallpapers with a calendar for the upcoming month.

A classic example of a blog is " 50 beautiful blog designs "which in its simplicity, is to show 50 design blogs delicious. So the reader can even go on exploring. No analysis or interpretation, just a samgfuld composition. Inspiredology.com makes proper use of the same publishing model, but never reach the same heights as it lacks the versatility and the same sense of quality.

I found Smashing Magazine is the first time when I was looking for a useful Wordpress themes for Stemblankt.dk and has since tried to read the articles about CSS and sent AJAX, Javascript and font advice to my colleagues. Definitely recommended for amateurs and professionals alike.

Behind blogs exist both a powerful technology and an interesting communication behavior. Gradually I started to follow many people, magazines, and partly also of businesses or professional blogs. It is far from a new phenomenon and it is not because blogs have evolved particularly in recent years.

The kick-off must have been in January when I decided to gather all the blogs I read around (when else I remembered them). The concept is simple: Instead of that I visit every site to see what has happened lately (as if I can remember when I last was on the side), then it has now happened to me directly.

Because Bloglines retrieves feeds / XML, then presented various sites content on a page. I have chosen to sort the sites that I subscribe to, in different folders and read them, depending on interest. Specifically, this means eg. That I for example. get new "messages" from 13 different sites within the literature. This applies to both the established as Literature Since , Part P and the airship , as well as currently less active solo writers Cicely Lolk Hjort and Martin Larsen.

One of the meanings have been that I have created my own news site with information that could be relevant for me. A sort of long tail of news. Especially on issues like 'web search' and 'emerging trends in Social Networking' I am now demanded daily with the latest Shiite.

With 98 feeds daily spit up to 500 messages in my direction, it may be difficult to keep up with everything. But it certainly was not easy before. Quite the contrary. The advantages include easy access to news sources (one place and quickly) and monitoring of blogs with low publishing rate.

Bloglines has a simple and usable interface, fast response time and allows for archiving of blogs. It uses I do if I need to read something I think looks interesting. Will I save a post I've read, I use del.icio.us . Bloglines has existed since 2003 and is called a feed aggregator (see Wikipedia ). Journalisten.dk have made ​​an intro to how to get started.

A week's vacation may soon mean that I can not get through the many new messages. But I also have my bookmarks online, which I then select and read while the rest are marked "read" without that I will spare them a thought. The next blog post on http://www.re-aktion.dk/ going to be about the sites I think is really interesting at the moment.