Interview: Jeffrey Zeldman on Cause Campaigns. We interview the author of “Designing With Web Standards” about his banner campaign idea, his new book, and the Microsoft browser announcement. By Andy King.  [WebReference News]

UK Villages (Wide)Band Together. Towns and villages in the UK are skipping the wires, and using fixed wireless Internet: England has some spread-out communities, and it might or might not ever be cost effective to try to deliver IP over phone lines with DSL or other methods. Fixed wireless is here now, it's not overly… Continue reading UK Villages (Wide)Band Together

Hotels Don't See IT Return from Wi-Fi. Hotels like Starwood chain not seeing the IT return from deploying Wi-Fi: It makes sense that Wi-Fi deployments could help run hotels, which have many mobile workers in their confines, as well as provide access to customers. This story says no, ain't the case, at least for Starwood,… Continue reading Hotels Don't See IT Return from Wi-Fi

New Clients From Law Firm Web Sites?. According to Touchpoint Metrics, “Seventeen of 30 leading law firms researched average over nine new clients annually whose first awareness of their firm was their Web site!” Not exactly a big surprise, but good to see some hard numbers on the subject. The company has more interesting results.… Continue reading New Clients From Law Firm Web Sites?

Christopher Morley: “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

RSS Kerfluffle. Dave Winer says that MoveableType's RSS support is “funky”. Aaron Swartz offers an extensive and sensible survey of the question. I still don't understand the issue, or why it matters. I'm running a major development effort that supports RSS. I don't care about personalities; I just want our RSS to work with everyone… Continue reading RSS Kerfluffle

The Ws of weblogging. Sam Ruby has kicked off a fascinating discussion to distill the technical aspects of weblogging, in The Anatomy of a Well-Formed Log Entry. [dive into mark]

Getting Under the Hood of the Macromedia XML News Aggregator Sample Application by Daniel Dura and Josh Dura  [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

Get Connected with ColdFusion and the Data Connection Kit by Ben Forta  [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

McGee's Musings – Structuring time for reflection. Quote: “Excellent material on the challenges of building in the necessary time for reflection to power organizational learning and change. One interesting aspect to this line of thought is that reflection has to become an explicit process for it to work at the operating pace of today's economy”… Continue reading McGee's Musings – Structuring time for reflection