LanceWillett.com

Paul Boag has a great podcast about web design over at boagworld that you should definitely check out.

Topics include accessibility, DOM scripting (with none other than Jeremy Keith as guest), usability, and other tasty morsels.

I found it in iTunes and am now subscribed! If you know of any other good webdev or webdesign podcasts, drop me a line.

A few weeks ago I came across a post on Lessig’s blog about a music group called Tryad that had released their album Public Domain online under the CC license. What’s weird is that the post is no longer on his blog…

That’s not the point, though! The band and their music are awesome. Check it out for yourself. I am not sure what category they go under, but that is a good thing sometimes. I have them under Electronica in iTunes.

Tryad is extra worth checking out since they live in different places around the world and collaborate and make music online.

Great band and cool method of releasing their music to the masses.

Jipi and the Paranoid Chip is a great story: this site lists the excerpt as it appeared in Forbes, July 7, 1997. If you haven’t read it, go now!

Today I am kicking off a new look for LanceWillett.com! Two reasons: [1] simplify, and [2] use my own design.

The first design this site had wasn’t mine…although I thought it was cool nonetheless. It was a Kubrick takeoff, in case you were curious. I got it as a “theme” from the Textpattern Resources site. Since I am a web designer I thought it would be fairly important to design my own site!

This new design is intended to tide me over until I can come up with something cool. For now I am aiming at “simple”, “lightweight”, and “readable”.

Let me know what you think…

Via the newly published Treehouse magazine.

“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”
-Jeff Bezos

That is awesome.

What podcasts are you listening to?

The one and only IT Conversations has most of my time and attention. I especially like Tech Nation with Moira Gunn; plus all the conferences that are going on usually get ported to ITC sooner or later.

I also listen to Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte bring the weekly: Security Now podcast. My friend Aaron first recommended it to me…The episodes are short in length, but full of good reporting on the latest in computer security. Get it through iTunes, or your favorite podcast retrieval program.

Of note: The Word Nerds, a weekly podcast about words and how we use them. I just found about it today through Peter Merholz’s blog.