JD on EP

Matt Chotin notes Adobe hiring on Flex/LiveCycle integration. More here.

The C64 emulation continues to spur please excitement among all who come across it.... ;-)

Stacey Mulcahey points out that Flex 2 just makes it much more economical to develop an interface, and that there are still large costs in correct design and testing of a piece, to make sure that it actually serves audience needs as desired.

Sean Corfield offers a cautionary tale that the evasion of scammers is a never-ending task. Gmail had a temporary demonstration phishing vulnerability recently too. And speaking of spammers, Spamhaus was just ordered to pay $11M in damages to a spammer. That doesn't seem right, it cannot stand.

This article on 1985-era bloggers, at the newly-opened archive of TIME magazine, is actually pretty interesting to read -- the democratization process has been going on for over a few hype cycles now. [via Evan Williams]

New York Times has also moved paper archives to digital form, with resources stretching back to 1851!

Blufr asks you to guess whether assertions are true or false. It's interesting, but I'm not sold on it... some of these you can guess contextually, but some are a toss-up. Interesting, though.

Motley Fool has another Adobe Q3 analysis, this time with info on how PDF creation is only a small part of the Acrobat platform, and the implications of some of the rapid increase in web video popularity this year.

Mike Potter, from the Adobe side of the merger, lists changes he's seen in the past ten months of the new company.

John Nack had a striking quote on fauxtography: "For me the conversation throws the debate over digital manipulation into greater perspective: the battle for truth is fought on many fronts, and compared to the questions over what meaning can and should be assigned to images, the technical side starts to look straightforward. The bits matter, but we see in them what we want and need to see."

Marcel Boucher is doing some work on Flex and LiveCycle integration... this uses a Flex UI to have LiveCycle automatically generate PDF and HTML forms.

Boing Boing has a piece on public webcams connected to loudspeakers, so that litterbugs can be appropriately scolded when spotted.

Paris Hilton is a 2.0 of Madonna, and "Every web developer should pay attention to her." Sounds strange, but makes sense.

Dion Hinchcliffe notes, in passing, that "Ajax" is an authoring technique, and that the actual deployed browsers in the world define the true runtime capabilities: "It's worth noting that a great many of the more successful Web sites are actively and liberally using Flash plug-ins to provide the rich application and media support they need (Flickr, YouTube, Google, to name just three of thousands). That's because Ajax can never provide a complete solution to what you'll need to do in a browser until the browser gets a serious overhaul. The most common RIA platform is actually the Flash plug-in, found in 99% of all computers in the world, and it alone can provide the browser safe local file storage, audio/video capture, audio/video playback, and more...."

Ralf Bokelberg describes "5 Reasons Presentations Suck on the Web". Fortunately most of these can be addressed with considerate design.

Michael Arrington discusses the difficulty of combining reputation-based comments with anonymous comments.

Dean Edwards at Web Standards Project links to some JavaScript improvements in the new Microsoft browser.