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Friday Update

It appears a lit­tle clar­ity is needed: the book cover posted pre­vi­ously was an exper­i­ment, both in design, and to test reac­tion on a num­ber of lev­els, though we have had ideas for such a book on the table for quite a while (any inter­ested pub­lish­ers should drop us a line — we’ll do lunch).

The new agency, to be unveiled soon, will be self-publishing a series of PDF’s, of var­i­ous lengths and top­ics. The first is near­ing com­ple­tion, and will be pub­lished early next week. More details will emerge soon (regard­ing both the pub­lish­ing and the new agency), but rest assured the PDF series will be well designed :-)

Also on the list today: Lis­ta­matic, Russ Weakley’s ter­rific col­lec­tion of clean CSS list styles, has a new addi­tion. The nav­i­ga­tion cur­rently used on this site (as of the 2003 redesign) is now avail­able via Lis­ta­matic, in an easy to re-use dis­tilled format.

And keep your eyes on Dave Shea’s upcom­ing entry into the mar­ket, Bright Cre­ative — I’ll place the first bet that his will be an agency to watch for quite a while.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Friday, January 30th, 2004.

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4 comments on “Friday Update”

  1. Posted by Andrew on Saturday, January 31st, 2004.

    Maybe I’ll become a pub­lisher to pub­lish your book. Then I might be able to snag an early copy of it. :)

  2. Posted by Scrivs on Sunday, February 1st, 2004.

    So there is no book? :( Man that was a pretty good trick you pulled on me guys. What am I sup­posed to read now? Guess I will have to write my own book then…

  3. Posted by Joe Clark on Sunday, February 1st, 2004.

    Tagged acces­si­ble PDFs, please. InDe­sign can out­put them semi-automatically.

  4. Posted by Didier Hilhorst on Sunday, February 1st, 2004.

    Joe — Thanks for point­ing this out, great sug­ges­tion. I use a Pock­etPC regu­rarly and love to read PDF doc­u­ments while trav­el­ing or not pay­ing atten­tion in lec­tures. How­ever if PDF doc­u­ments are not tagged Acro­bat Reader will not reflow the con­tent to match the (tiny) screen size. What fol­lows is a night­mare of scrolling both hor­i­zon­tally and ver­ti­cally. Insane!

    Rest assured it will be tagged!

    So yes, all pub­lish­ers out there (espe­cially those at Sci­ence Direct and oth­ers), please use tagged acces­si­ble PDF doc­u­ments for all the right rea­sons, not just fancy peo­ple cary­ing a Pock­etPC (although that should be enough to val­i­date the effort from a finan­cial and mar­ket­ing perspective).

    Oh, and while I’m rant­ing about PDFs: Why is text in most aca­d­e­mic doc­u­ments not selec­table? Please, don’t think this is an effec­tive method against repro­duc­tion. It’s sim­ply a nui­sance. Retyp­ing quotes word by word is ridicu­lous and a com­plete waste of time.