Digital Divide: The Three Stages
From the mighty Jacob Nielson’s Alertbox comes The Three Stages of the Digital Divide.
The “digital divide” refers to the fact that certain parts of the population have substantially better opportunities to benefit from the new economy than other parts of the population. Most commentators view this in purely economic terms. However, two other types of divide will have much greater impact in the years to come.
Pushing evil off the top
Can the Google Bomb achieve? Are we even right to try? This is an interesting social response to information published by white supremacists. Stowe Boyd informed me, explanation here via Confused Of Calcutta. Doing my little bit.
Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King.
Grinderman cometh
News of Nick Caves new band greeted me this morning and joy did unfold. The collaboration is with former members of the Triffids, Cramps and the Dirty Three, forming the rock supergroup, Grinderman. From Soundgenerator:
The project - featuring Cave alongside ex-Triffids member Martyn Casey, ex-Cramps drummer Jim Sclavunos and Dirty Three founder member Warren Ellis - will see a new album emerge for 2007, as well as tour dates in the spring.
Describing their sound as ‘different to everyone, including themselves’, Ellis tells Uncut of how the band dynamic developed. “Having Nick on the guitar changed the whole dynamic”, he reveals, describing the band’s ‘open’ musical direction.
Check out the myspace Grinderman preview including a taster of things to come with “No Pussy Blues”. The debut album is set to be released on the 5th March 2007.
The line-up goes something like this:
Nick Cave - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Electric Organ, Piano
Warren Ellis - Electric Bouzouki, Fendocastor, Viola, Violin, Acoustic Guitar, Hohner Guitaret, Backing Vocals
Martyn P Casey - Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals
Jim Sclavunos - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals
Lord save us.
Web Design is 95% Typography
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
“Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. A printed work which cannot be read becomes a product without purpose.”
This a wonderful and interesting article from the people over at iA. Read it, it’s very readable.