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Houston Business Journal has a story on how video and motion can be more accessible than text... it's not a scientific survey, more anecdotal, and written by Paul Jerome of 917Media, who presumably has a stake in rich-media interfaces... interesting video presentation at their site, check out how the shadow follows the speaker's motion yet doesn't follow the curvature of the sportscar... you know what's going on here, right...? ;-)

Two aggregation lists at 3spots.blogspot.com... Digg-style apps and Flash or JavaScript entrypages.

I don't watch "South Park", but I appreciate the way that the creators skewered self-destructive censorship this week... they showed a whole bunch of stuff which would offend lots and lots of different people. But their sponsor corporation, Comedy Central, balked at displaying innocuous drawings of a certain historical figure they've aired before, who has been drawn without riots throughout history, and who is currently portrayed in much less flattering light by those who scream the loudest against others. This whole "cartoon jihad" thing is a crock from top to bottom, and I appreciate how exquisitely Parker & Stone laid bare such murderous hypocrisy.

BBC carries a study on different social effects of increased mobile connectivity... I'm not sure there's anything shockingly new here, but it's an ongoing task to see how we humans will adapt to these new abilities.

"The World's Best Video Websites" may be a bit overstated, but it's a goodsized list of various types of recommendations.

More Flash clones appear... I'm not certain I should call them "clones", because most of these groups try to render parts of the SWF files they find instead of actually replicating full Adobe functionality, but "clones" is still the best word I currently have to describe them. In Oregan's case, their website still seems bare of technical detail... impossible to tell what they actually succeed in reading... if you ever get any functional reality from such firms then I'd be interested in hearing, thanks. When I check with the mobile teams they say such variant engines don't actually turn up in partners' business discussions, so the risks of realworld forking are low, but it may be something you get questioned on by your own clients and colleagues, should they happen to read the press releases.

"Web Design for the Sony PSP" was published last autumn, but still offers a comprehensive list of browser concerns on the console device.

Lots of conversation this week about Vista hardware requirements... it'll be hard to tell what type of hardware is actually needed for satisfactory performance until they actually ship. More on possible requirements at CNET.

David West writes at Web Pro New about the inclusion of source files in webwork contracts, from the perspective of the client rather than the designer or developer.

Info on how new .EU domains were subverted by a gap in the registration process.

Nitesh Dhanjani has thoughts on Ajax security... nothing new here, but a good look at current perceptions of the subject, from a JavaScript point of view, which hasn't had to deal with problems like behind-the-firewall data requests before.

Cl1P.net is a site where you can copy/paste text across machines.

Jen Larkin has news on a Flex User Group in the San Francisco Bay Area... I've seen other posts this week about similar groups in other areas but unfortunately don't have the links handy, so please add in comments if you wish.

Steve Pavlina has a great essay on "10 Stupid Mistakes of the Newly Self-Employed"... great reality checks for single-person or small-group businesses.

At informit.com, James Gonzalez offers new web designers an intro to Flash audio control.

I'm not sure of all the content in this Finnish map, but I like the overall look of that they have accomplished.

Last ActionScript Hero has a great entry on a MathML app... it's not a public application, but I like hearing about work done in such hard yet meaningful areas.

Bill Burnham has an essay on "persistent search"... I think he's envisioning this as a serverside service, though, where someone else notifies you if they find new items on your desired search term... for privacy & decentralization reasons, I'm leaning more towards clientside agents, such as the "headless agents" which provided notifications if their recurring server requests turned up new info.