Web Directions

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Facebook has determined that you were using a feature at a rate that is likely to be abusive

OK, bad, because it was Facebook's error that caused the problem.2. I'm indefinitely blocked, and this block will not be lifted under any circumstances"Facebook will not lift this block for you until the entire penalty time has elapsed"3. It is a violation of Facebook's Terms of Use to repeatedly send the same message or to make the same postRight - but the only reason this occurred was your feature told me that there was an error sending a message and I should try again later, which I duly did.Frankly, Facebook, your attitude it appalling. High handed, autocratic, rude, and flat out wrong. Can some one remind me why we all use this thing?Epic Fail. " ["post_title"]=> string(39) "Now officially very angry with Facebook" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(39) "now-officially-very-angry-with-facebook" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(58) " http://www.webdirections.org/blog/how-not-to-communicate/" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-11-21 17:18:04" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-11-21 07:18:04" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1262" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(2) "13" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [1]=> object(stdClass)#436 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(1256) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-11-21 13:00:41" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-11-21 03:00:41" ["post_content"]=> string(2677) "A significant focus for us at Web Directions North will be educating the next generation of web professionals. It's clear from many conversations we've had with those in the industry, recent graduates, employers, and others, that on the whole, the education systems world wide simply aren't preparing people for the needs of the industry.

Announcing Ed Directions

So, to address this, we are working closely with the Web Standards Project Education Taskforce, Chris Mills who is responsible for Opera Software's web standards based curriculum, as well as experienced educators in the field, and industry experts like Christian Heilmann, Dave Shea and Derek Featherstone, to put together Ed Directions - Educating the next generation of web professionals.The goal of the day is to help teachers, trainers, course and curriculum developers, and others in the education field keep abreast with the latest developments in standards and best practice, and to develop and deliver the best possible curricula and courses. Ed Directions, held February 3rd in Denver costs $495 or just $395 for Web Directions North conference attendees.If the day goes off well, we hope to be running them elsewhere in future.

Web Professional Education Summit

We are also holding The Web Professional Education Summit, co-hosted with the professional association WOW, on the evening of February 2nd. The seminar aims to stimulate discussion and present solutions for innovation related to technical and creative professional education, particularly in relation to the web. It's free, but places are limited, so RSVP to ensure your place.

Student Discounts

Last but not least, to encourage as many students as possible to get along, as always we are offering steep discounts for any full time students. Pricing to the conference for full time students is just $195, 80% off the full price. There's no better way to really get to up to speed with current industry trends and developments, nor to meet potential mentors and employers. For full details on these discounts, see our pricing page." ["post_title"]=> string(42) "Focus on education at Web Directions North" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(42) "focus-on-education-at-web-directions-north" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-11-21 13:00:41" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-11-21 03:00:41" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1256" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [2]=> object(stdClass)#435 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(1251) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-11-20 18:24:57" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-11-20 08:24:57" ["post_content"]=> string(2809) "Well, at least (for now) it's not users, but news today via the Sydney Morning Herald that Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), the histrionically named consortium of Australian Film and Television companies such as Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network,

has launched a major legal action against one of Australia's largest internet service providers for allegedly allowing its users to download pirated movies and TV shows.

Note to AFACT - it's over, done, dusted, the world's moved on, the geni is out of the bottle. In this downturn, where budgets are tight, don't waste your money suing large scale legitimate businesses , who are ironically quite possibly protected by -

safe harbour provisions that were introduced with the US free trade agreement, which provides immunity for ISPs in certain circumstances such as transmission, hosting, caching and referencing activities

Make your offerings fair priced, more convenient and better value than unlicensed material (piracy is what bad guys with AK47's do in the waters of Somalia, in the South China Seas, and elsewhere in the world. Whatever people are doing watching unlicensed material, it's sure as heck not piracy) and as the music industry has seen, people will gladly buy instead of downloading from file sharing services.But every time I put a DVD on for my daughters, to have to site though an interminable copyright warning that treats me like a thief, and frustrates my two girls under 3, which I can't skip through you are actually providing a worse service than unlicensed copies that don't have this notice (just for the record, I have many dozens of paid for DVDs, and no unlicensed ones).What is wrong with this country, where both the Federal Government, and now the entire film and television industry it would seem is hell bent on making the life of ISPs as difficult as possible, doubtless driving up prices in a country where broadband adoption still languishes behind much of the rest of the world?Like the French in 1939, this is fighting the last war.One last thing. Why not go after the really big guns - BigPond or Optus, instead of iiNet? I imagine because those companies pockets are deep enough that they are much less likely to settle than iiNet, setting a precendent for future actions.Haven't you people heard there's a recession on - stop wasting your money on nonsense like this, and start providing reasons for people to give you their hard earned money." 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But so many of the things it does annoys me (and worse).Here's a perfect example.I've been using Facebook to message a small number of folks I've messaged in the past about various professional matters. Sadly, the send mechanism simply wasn't working. In fact, Facebook advised me of a problem and suggested I try again later. So, I tried again, and then saw in my outbox that the original message had also been sent. So, like any polite person, I decided to apologize to these couple of people I sent mutltiple messages to.Here's how Facebook responded [caption id="attachment_1249" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Nasty threatening message by Facebook as I try to compensate fo rthei mistakes"][/caption]So, let's walk through this.1. I use Facebook entirely appropriately 2. Facebook makes a mistake and tells me a message was not sent when it was 3. Due to Facebook's mistake I send a second message 4. As a polite person, I try to rectify this by apologizing to the recipient 5. Facebook then threatens me with arbitrary social and professional death (disabling my account, a status from which I doubt it would be easy to return) Facebook also incorrectly tells me I am a spammer (not "may be" but "you are using this feature to spam others")Here's the thing Facebook. I'm effing well not a spammer. In fact in the 15 or more years that I've been professionally or personally been using the web (since about the time Mark Zuckerberg was in diapers), and in which time having sent tens if not hundreds of thousands of emails, barely a handful of people (and I mean one handful) have ever accused me of spamming them. And in every case I can recall we've been able to to come to an understanding of why the email had been sent, and those recipients no longer felt they had been spammed.I have a lot of concerns as a matter of fact Facebook. Frankly your threats and misplaced accusations are extremely worrying, particularly as I was trying to undo your errors.So, despite being pretty angry, here's some constructive suggestions for the message:Hmmm - are you sure you want to send this message?It seems that you've recently sent the recipient a couple of messages. As we don't have them down as a friend of yours, our magical robots, not being all that smart, can take this as evidence of spamming. Of course, there's a very good chance that the message you are about to send is anything but spam, in which case, send away. But, if it does happen to be spam, think again - our magical robots are watching, and in order to make sure Facebook keeps working for everyone, we do our best to stop spam and the people who send it.Speaking to people like they are people, and not assuming, let along accusing them of anti social (or worse) behavior is not too hard.Must try harder." 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Craig charged Cameron with the responsibility of representing the hard working, non library using JavaScript coder."Because he could", to demonstrate the possibilities of this approach, Cameron fused his twin fascinations (music and code) to make the world's first JavaScript drum machine. Behold, the JS-909." 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It contains multitudes. It's very much a work in progress. One important milestone in that process occurred today, with the publication of the first draft of the HTML5 Language first draft, titled, perhaps a little confusingly "HTML: The Markup Language"

This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML vocabulary. It provides the details necessary for producers of HTML to create conformant HTML documents. By design, it does not describe related APIs nor attempt to describe how consumers of HTML are meant to process HTML documents.

In essence, it's a web authors guide to HTML.If you've not been following the HTML5 saga closely, there'll be some new, as well as some familiar things there, including the obsoleting of the font element!There'll be a long path from here to this becoming a W3 recommendation, but it is an important step nonetheless." 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At first glance, it seems far more efficient than popup menus for hours and minutes, and more adapted to a mouse driven interface than the iPhones nifty time chooser. Is a new UI paradigm born?" 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Check it out." 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My favourite part was the ice sculpture of the WDE logo and Mitsue Links logo (Mitsue was our generous reception sponsor). Here's to many more events in fabulous Tokyo!" 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Maybe he always does this to fit in with the style of his blog, but, for me it emphasises a broader point as well. A medium doesn't just die: it gets folded into that which comes after it, and its significance changes accordingly. Color photography didn't kill the black and white image. Slowly, slowly, it just gave it a new meaning: what was once simply "real+actual", is now "real+historical", and numerous other meanings. For me, that's why Khoi's photograph works in black and white.Likewise print has not been destroyed by the web, just repurposed. Again, referring back to the photo: people queued in the street to get a physical copy of the paper which declared Barack Obama to be the first African American President of the USA. From disposable news source to collectable item. I wonder how many of the people in that queue are like me: never buying a paper newspaper from one month to the next these days.So the photo makes me feel happy and inspired because it's what we are trying to do with our own venture, Scroll. We feel that the ideas and thoughts of our finest web designers, developers and thinkers deserve to be preserved for posterity in the form of a beautiful physical publication, because the look, the feel and the smell of the tangible will have its own unique significance. We were really happy with Scroll Number 1, and it's been great to see copies of it go out to everywhere from Chennai to Malmo. Can't wait to get started on Scroll Number 2." 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So, if you enjoyed what you heard from the people below while you were at the conference, be sure to check out the following for more of their thoughts.

• Douglas Crockford - Javascript Doesn't Suck
• Derek Featherstone - Accessibility is More Than Compliance
• Daniel Burka - Digg's Designer Divilges Design Details
• Douglas Crockford - Web Standards and Javascript
• Dmitry Baranovskiy - Talking about his Javascript Library, Raphael
• August de los Reyes - Scratching the Surface

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Facebook has determined that you were using a feature at a rate that is likely to be abusive

OK, bad, because it was Facebook's error that caused the problem.2. I'm indefinitely blocked, and this block will not be lifted under any circumstances"Facebook will not lift this block for you until the entire penalty time has elapsed"3. It is a violation of Facebook's Terms of Use to repeatedly send the same message or to make the same postRight - but the only reason this occurred was your feature told me that there was an error sending a message and I should try again later, which I duly did.Frankly, Facebook, your attitude it appalling. High handed, autocratic, rude, and flat out wrong. Can some one remind me why we all use this thing?Epic Fail. " ["post_title"]=> string(39) "Now officially very angry with Facebook" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(39) "now-officially-very-angry-with-facebook" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(58) " http://www.webdirections.org/blog/how-not-to-communicate/" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-11-21 17:18:04" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-11-21 07:18:04" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1262" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(2) "13" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } ["queried_object"]=> NULL ["queried_object_id"]=> int(0) }