links for 2010-08-03

Interesting essay from Speider Schneider about the forces undercutting professional design. You can probably do a find/replace and chuck the phrases 'citizen journalist' and 'blogger' in there

"For the last couple of months, I've been experimenting with my iPad as a potential blogging tool, and have come to the conclusion that it's just not up to the challenge". I am as yet unable to confirm rumours that this blog post was sponsored by my wife @dragon_lassie and our bank manager

Holland were fined $14,440 for their eight yellow cards and one red card. As runners up, their prize money was $24 million

"Just because some can respond in the comments doesn't mean journalists should fail to conduct basic journalistic tasks, such as seeking an alternative opinion, especially when it's the person who has been subject of criticism."

"The HTML5 era is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed yet. Browsers vary in their levels of support for the emerging standard, and developers are pushing the envelope with hacks, experiments and proof-of-concept demos. If you want to find out how well-equipped your browser is for the HTML5 future, just pay a visit HTML5test.com."

"I've been thinking about covers for a while now. One of the many great debates around the ephemeralisation of music has been the lamentations for the loss of cover art: now, we are reaching the same point with books. I say ephemeralisation rather than digitisation because it's not just a physical transformation we're going through, it's a cognitive one."