I came across this article today -- it's old (2007), but still thought provoking. Understanding Web Design.

The writer talks about how graphic & print designers often view website design as being so limited, with limited fonts, very specific grids, headers, footers, sidebars, etc, etc. However, he says we should look at web design from a different perspective. Web design is more like architecture or typography. His definition of web design is this:

This website has just been re-done.

Really?

Well, you can't tell because I haven't given it a new design -- I only changed the back end. I finally got my site switched over to the Drupal content management system (CMS). Oh what a relief!

I’ve been looking around for a good definition of web 2.0. I don’t see any simple answer that encompasses all that it is. However, I did come across this article at O’Reilly which is arguably the best, most comprehensive discourse on the topic — if for no other reason than that these are the guys that coined the phrase.

I found out that Microsoft launched a court action against cybersquatters. Well, I'm not normally too interested in Microsoft's legal stuff because I don't think I could ever keep up with it all anyway. But this one caught my eye because it touched on an issue that I've talked about before (See the The Challenge of Domain Names).