Monkinetic Weblog

Small Multiples: Tag cloud usability guidelines.

Star Wars character or Web 2.0 company?. I scored a 37.

I've been futzing with tags lately on this site. I've wanted to add tagging to my posts for some time (managing categories was too hard), and got around to installing the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for Wordpress. It's impressive in it's scope of features and complete ease of use. I've spent some time tagging the last year's worth of content (not as much as you might think) and it's a quick and easy process.

(Via Bill, and Chris Tingom) The new Manpower logo is awesome.

This BBC article (Cyber bullies haunt young online) talks about kids in England getting threatening IMs and emails from the "Real Life" bullies at their schools. Maybe I'm off my rocker here, but it makes me wonder what would happen if, whenever this happened, the victim posted the content of the message and the identity of the bully on his/her blog?

Ouch. ;-)

Bill turned me onto a couple new (to me) blogs by a local guy named Chris Tingom. One is brainfuel.tv, which tends to have a lot of good web design critique and analysis. The other is Arizona Coffee, a topic near and dear to my heart. (I like to spend time around the corner at Stonegrounds, using their free WiFi to work from "home" :-) ).

He says he'll stop. Will he, or is this another "no one is inviting me to conferences about things I invented. I'm going to take my blog and go home"?

My friend Bill has been sitting on a secret project at his work for a year or so now. I knew he was hyper-excited about it, but the little scamp wouldn't give me a clue about it. Eventually he clued me in that it had to do with blogging, and only recently he gave me some access to the system with some dire grumbling that I keep my big yap shut.

Camino is a web borwser for the Mac that wraps a native OS X interface around the popular Gecko rendering engine. It's fast, and renders 99.8% of sites exactly like Firefox. After 1.0 came out, Idecide to try it out as my main web browser.

Most awesomest poster ever (original).

I'm working on designing my first ecommerce check-out page, and I'm looking for samples of well-designed pages. Any suggestions?

I just upgraded this site to Wordpress 2.0.1, and my stats page at Dreamhost stopped working. This happened once before, and I had fixed it, so I had to go Googling for the answer again. Here it is for posterity:

Somehow I can't get that excited that about the iPod HiFi, when my daughter has the equivalent of an iPod > brain interface:

I'd say that has some shelf presence!

Today our little precious girl is 5 years old! Pics from the party a little later tonight. :-)

I just got rocked by the Wayback Machine:

I tried to access this site while at the coffee shop today, and the wireless was not connecting. Assuming that it was working, I got the "could not connect to redmonk.net" message from Firefox, and freaked out, thinking my site was down. I tried to hit the web panel at my host, and in an amusing freudian slip, I typed

Heh. Meme-fun from Wolf