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Coding Horror Blog Entry: The Field of Dreams Strategy

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We have a tendency to fetishize audience metrics in the IT industry. Presenters stress out about about their feedback ratings and measure themselves by how many attendees they can attract for a presentation. Bloggers obsessively track their backlinks, pagerank, and traffic numbers. I see it a lot, and it's strange to me. I don't chase those numbers. I couldn't even tell you how many readers I have, or what my presentation ratings were. I don't mean to sound glib, but I don't care.
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http://www.codinghor...archives/000702.html

Jeff Atwood has posted a number of recent nice blog entries that are refreshingly against the current trend of focusing on monetizing everything and organizing everything to make money.  Here he introduces us to what Conant O'Brien calls the "Field of Dreams" strategy.

Are software reviews important and effective? If not, why not?

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Urlwolf on our forum asks:

I have seen many people swearing by DC's reviews. The software industry certainly has high regards for DC's reviews. I love them, I think they are great fun a good for the ecosystem.
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Continue reading the rest of the entry and discuss..


SCRIBUS - Opeb Source Desktop Publishing

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"Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.

Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation."

Looks interesting..

Black Ops - Flash Game of the Day

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This is a nice deep side scrolling semi-stealth game, with some advanced controls and a retro platformer cold war feel. Pretty sweet.

http://www.flashgame...47.com/play/775.html


12 Windows Explorer Alternatives Compared

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Windows Explorer, the default file manager for Microsoft Windows, hasn’t really changed all that much over the years. Below you’ll find reviews, screenshots and links to download 12 different alternatives..

Read full review on simplehelp.net

People have been waiting for us to do a big comparison review of windows explorer alternatives; this is a very nice comparison of many of the best.
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discovered on Veign's Blog: http://www.veign.com/blog/
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Whitney Music Box - Flash Visualization of Music

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This weekend I’ve been playing, once again, with the ideas of experimental film pioneer John Whitney, using both graphics and audio. While Whitney was interested in turning musical ideas into motion graphics, I’m doing the inverse — turning one of his key animation ideas back into music.

Whitney made a number of films based around the simple idea of harmonic relationships. Above is a visual example of one his ideas that I implemented in Flash.

http://www.krazydad....4/23/visual-harmony/

I don't really understand this but it's interesting.

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