Creativity
Way We Work: 101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes
If picture is worth 1000 words, that would make this 5 minute, 15fps video worth at least 300K words on Photoshop tips.
Bomomo Makes Abstract-ish Art Simple [Art]
Webapp Bomomo is a drawing application that's slick enough to make random squiggles seem elegant, but also lets you fine-tune your design. Whether you're looking for a change of desktop wallpaper,...
I Can't Even Give It Away (Or "A Brief Review of Donate Buttons on Non-Profit Websites")
Every once in a while it's good to review the basics and yesterday I virtually attended a website usability presentation given by NTen. Using three simple criteria they reviewed the websites of various not-for-profit organizations to deomonstrate how some simple changes could potentially have a positive impact on the site and, more importantly, online donations.
I Heart Miro and Affiliate Fundraising for Drupal Association
I Heart Miro has created the absolute easiest (and most passive) way to support the Participatory Culture Foundation's FOSS Miro project.
By just installing the Firefox extension, anytime you shop at Amazon a small portion of the proceeds will go to support Miro.
The extension works by adding the Miro referral code to the URL when you browse on Amazon. When you buy something, the Amazon referral fee is donated to their a 501c3 non-profit.
Joe Solomon introduced me to the project and posted on the NetSquared blog about abstracting the project to support any non-profit.
NetSquared Project Highlight: KnowMore.org
At lunch today I had a great connection with Joe Solomon, a Social Media Consultant, who is the Project Lead of the KnowMore.org Firefox extension.
When installed, KnowMore's icons integrate into Google's search results to help users understand data from the KnowMore database.
KnowMore is community dedicated to chronicling corporate abuses, worker's and human rights, fair trade, business ethics and the environment, via a vast user-generated wiki database.
The extension is powered by KnowMore's new API which enables any developer to take KnowMore's corporate data and build web apps that empower consumers and help citizens hold corporations accountable.
NetSquared Project Highlight: MetaVid
The MetaVid project captures legislative proceedings and make full video streams accessible and searchable from the text transcripts.
Check out MetaVid directly or search Pelosi
Use the "APC" Method to Creatively Solve Problems [Decision-making]
The Tools for Thought blog delves into a creative problem solving technique from Edward de Bono that isn't exactly new, but might be a fresh idea for recent converts to the Getting Things Done school...
350 is the Most Important Number in the World Today
Bill McKibben's Project 350 introduces us to the most important number in the world today.
350 is the red line for human beings, as science now tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million (ppm), we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth. We are currently at 385 ppm and still rising.
To help spread the meme, Ian and I both spent some time making videos this weekend.
Video Portrait of Barack Obama
OK, this may be a little off-topic, but this video is so wild that I had to share. My good friend DangerMarc just created a sweet video portrait of Barack Obama. You can also see more of Marc's work on his web site at http://sketchbook.dangermarc.com/obama.
If you like it, I'm sure he'd appreciate the Digg love too.
Persuasion Architecture, Part 2
"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion."
Themistocles (527 BC - 460 BC)
DrupalCamp Vancouver Success
DrupalCamps help bring out creativity. This weekend I attended Vancouver's DrupalCamp, and I really enjoyed myself. On top of it, I am always amazed by talking with others at these types of events. Other developers who I think really know their stuff said to me, "The camps are great. They remind of how much more I need to learn." I thought they knew it all!
New Habits Expand Our Minds—Literally [Mind Hacks]
Developing new habits can jumpstart our creativity and even help us grow new brain cells, reports the New York Times. Research by authors Dawna Markova and M. J. Ryan suggests that...
Way We Work: Using Flickr for Inspiration
What is one of the best tips to get out of the creative slump? Need to find that extra juice for your Drupal theme?
It may be simple, but I love to use Flickr for my inspiration!
Flickr has millions of photos, and thousands of groups to showcase amazing work.
Vandelay Design has compiled a list of 99 Flickr groups to help get you unstuck, such as:
Workflow NG tutorial or flagging a dead node
Hello!
Just a quick note to let people know on the planet and elsewhere that I've developed a short tutorial on setting up a workflow-ng event and using arguments / handlers based on the flag_content module.
It's available at:
Workflow NG tutorial and how-to
This is not for the faint of grey matter... sorry, no screencasts or tweets. Just a lot of code. I will be posting a screencast / some screenshots sometime soon, but for now, this one is for the geeks.
Enjoy!
Jacob
What Does A "Themer" do? What Is A "Themer"?
Have you ever wondered what a "themer" actually does? How are they different to a designer and a developer? In it's simplest sense a themere takes a flat static image, the design, provided by the designer, and a mostly-functional but ugly site, provided by a developer, and makes the ugly site look pretty like the designer wants it.
This timelapse by Matthew Buchanan of the theming of nzmusicmonth.co.nz sums up that process:
