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Latest posts from my blog (as you can tell, I don’t write much)

Olympism

The different nations of the world should not be measured at the Olympic Games ONLY by the medals they win. This ranking currently carries an importance that, in my view, does not …

It adds up… still crying

Because it’s the only thing that comes to mind right now, after coming across this website: Iraq Body Count, apart from publishing this post to shake (once again) your …

Teamwork

Some harmless snowflakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.

Web Standards

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Web Standards Checklist

I have translated the original checklist A Web Standards Checklist, from MaxDesign. Before starting, let’s clarify some concepts: What are web standards? The expression “web …

Google’s PageRank

Do you know how PageRank is calculated? Do you understand its algorithm? Ian Rogers explains clearly, using very simple and illustrative examples, how it works. He also provides …

The ‘rules’ of creativity in web design

I came across (via meyerweb.com) an interesting study carried out by François Briatte. In it, he analyses 10 websites (perhaps too small a sample and with fairly similar topics: …

Viral marketing doesn’t work

Tell everyone.

The Principles of Motivation

Browsing, browsing… I came across a very interesting article by Stephen Covey, in which he explains how to convince the people who depend on us to act responsibly. From Covey’s …

Google explains Monday’s outage on its weblog

In a post titled “Global Worming”, Urs Hoelze (VP of Operations and Google Fellow) explains the incident that surprised us all last Monday, July 26th, on Google’s official weblog. …