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Here's a nice tutorial on how to create cartoon like images from photos. It's a good beginning, and after a few trials and errors pictures like the above one of Tegan and Sara are just a few Photoshop clicks away.
See the tutorial: http://www.revver.com/video/529459/how-to-make-photo-to-cartoon-in-photoshop/
The paper regime is quietly giving up the battle against the environmentally, and also logistically better options in several areas. One of these areas is newsletters. Electronic newsletters are getting more and more common, in the form of a pdf attached to email or posted on the (intra)website.
HTML newsletters that are sendt as email are one of the nice little new jobs that I've been getting, but there's some tricks that should be kept in mind when creating the otherwise so simple HTML for emailing.
MailChimp has collected a nice and usable list of Top 10 Email Coding Tips.
At times redirecting web pages is needed, and if it's a permanent change a 301 redirect is the most search-engine-friendly one. For instance webconfs.com provides good examples of the code bits for different languages.
I just made a asp-redirect in 10 sec - pretty nice.
I've been thinking of which aspects of media I would teach to kids/teens, and the fact that media easily only shows one of the many sides, and misconceptions are easily formed, is definitely one of the top issues worth taking a closer look at. But I must admit, I wouldn't have associated it with this sort of information campaign (by MediaFront). But I think the idea is interesting, so visit the site and form your own opinion: http://www.pornoromantikk.no/
PornoRomantikk is an interactive campaign that aims at "cutting back the number of overpick and misconceptions among the teens. The message is that every situation has several sides and thus is can be perceived and interpreted differently." The oldest kids at the junior high are the main target group. It won Silver Tag in May 2008 (a monthly a price given to the best interactive work in Norway).
A new cool website found: Polyvore! Sometimes I need to nurture my materialistic side, and luckily this can be done on the Internet, too. And in addition, I hope this contributes to a more realistic way of shopping.
My next break-activity will be creating a new set (it's like virtual scrap booking) with some interior dreams of mine.
Check out: http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/home
One of my colleagues is working on a "How to write for the web" course. This will hopefully create some more established policies and practices for us, and for other web workers.
Web as a medium creates so many interesting possibilities, but in general this topic is way too little explored. Many fancy and costly web sites keep surprising me with a complete nonsense contents. There can of course lie several reasons behind this, but I guess the most likely one is a lack of competence - simply not knowing how one should write texts that won't be printed on paper but presented on the screen for a viewer who is always about to do something else.
A sister topic of this, and a topic I actually react daily to is how people write in emails. The level of formality varies quite a lot - even in emails between same sender and recipient. Why is it so? How formal should I be? I think about it quite often, and would gladly get some advice on it.
I will get back to this when the course has shaped up a bit more. In the mean while for those of us understanding Swedish the Language Council of Sweden's Guide for Web writers is a good start.
