Flickr kills Stock photography

To begin building my brand I wondered: how could I get a high resolution quality photo of some random item.

First I googled and sifted through the mostly OK images. The earth-shattering, beautiful options were all stock photos. ranging in price from $100-$1,000.

Ew.

Then I turned to Stock Photography's night mare: Flikr. Aside from way more choices and better pictures, the people who took them are NICE and all too happy to let you use their photo in your website (I've asked twice three times now....not a large sample size but I don't care!)

Case in point: Jodi_tripp's awesome "I love Flickr" shot used with permission

Rutgers Data Viz class materials

If you've always wanted to know how Rutgers does data visualization, there's finally a place to look. Back in the 90's some instructors had handouts which were essentially course notes. Nowadays, some kind professors are going the extra mile, giving kids audio & video. Instructor Anselm Spoerri, you are awesome.

3 of my favorite videos from UX Week 2010

UX Week 2009 | Matt Webb | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

UX Week 2009 | Jeffrey Veen | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

UX Week 2009 | Jesse James Garrett | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

Ad error

I wonder how many people write into Hulu demanding their ads work right.

Being friendly to users is a full-time job

I did something then something happened

This is a confirmation message in Call of Duty interface on Xbox:

It reads:

Notice
Your sign in status has changed returning to the main menu
Exit

Totally awesome