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Toons posted 23rd July 2002

BlogAmp is a free Winamp plugin that allows you to publish details of songs being played. I will be playing with it soon.

This week Jakob tells us how to become Usability professionals, just like him. Experience is the key, my friend.

Nick Usborne writes copy for web sites; he writes “strong messages that drive customer actions”. And he’s written some excellent articles on the subject.

Fifty tunes: I’ve added a page which lists the last 50 tunes I’ve played on WinAmp (an idea gratuitously lifted from What do I Know). It uses the BlogAmp plugin, which unfortunately requires JavaScript to view the list. However I managed to find a PHP version on the BlogAmp…
What’s the difference between a blog and a news site?: A question asked of me by a non-blogging friend. Other than content emphasis, he could see little difference, and thinking about it neither could I. (Which might explain why RSS, originally developed for news feeds, has been so whole heartedly taken on board in the…
Now playing: Until today, the listening right now bit and the last 50 listens page were generated with the help of BlogAmp, a neat little plug-in for WinAmp 2. The trouble was it only worked through JavaScript document.write statements; not exactly best practice. So I figured there…
Top Tunes 2004: Better late than never, here’s the track listing to my annual compilation. If you’d like a copy of the CD all you need to do is send me a CD comprising the best songs you bought last year.
transparent: Cross-Browser PNG Translucency in the current issue of SitePoint. Useful, but won’t validate: Let’s just hope that Microsoft wise up and support PNG transparency with the standard <img> tag in Internet Explorer 7! Westciv (makers of Style Master) announce the…