Arc Tangent

The podcast that myself, @klepas and @chisa do together has finally got its own web site – so it’s not going to be posted here any longer!

The new site is: http://www.capitalpodcast.com/
The new podcast feed URL is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ACapitalTechTalk

A 301 redirect has been placed on the previous feed URL, so hopefully your RSS reader / iTunes will update automatically.

It’s been great having the podcast here on arwhite.org but it’s definitely outgrown this little blog. Long live the new site!

(You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this podcast at http://arcwhite.org/feed/podcast, and download the file directly from here)

Ep. 3! From this week forth we give a quick shout-out of events nearby and around in the web-field that we consider interesting and potentially worth attending on top of the normal bag of news. Otherwise we have a quick chat about the Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed, the new Google Search (beta!) and a brief mention of this week’s über ‘wankism’: a website dedicated to chairs titled ‘chair whore’.

Pascal mentions a short update: his site is live — check it out at klepas.org — and notes he wants to write a howto/review/info article on using Jekyll from a designer’s perspective.

The main feature this week concerns the recent lively topic of online news media, particularly revolving around Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch’s decision to alter his media conglomerate’s business online model from ad-driven to a pay-subscription model. We discuss more in-depth the problems that print media and online media outlets are running into as of late, particular in monetising an online dissemination model somehow, and whether or not that will fly with today’s web-tuned audiences.

This week’s ‘fuck you’ goes to Sydney Morning Herald (who get no link from me! -Andy) for including advertisements that play music upon page load. Meanwhile, our ‘tip-of-the-cap’ to Mark Pesce, Pia Waugh and Senator Kate Lundy who we are planning an interview with to discuss the awesome work the two are doing in the open government arena.

Other links in order of mention:
* as always mail us feedback via arcwhite@arcwhite.org and klepas@klepas.org — we’d love to start a mailbag.
* Casual WSG Sydney meeting on 18:30, 13. August, Pumphouse, Darling Harbour, Sydney: http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/177.
* WSG Sydney meeting on 19. August http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/176 — 82 peeps already registered (free).
* Vision Au. are running two workshops on web accessibility 19–20., August, Melbourne: http://bit.ly/vision-au-a11y-1 & http://bit.ly/vision-au-a11y-2.
* Web Directions South ’09, Sydney: http://south09.webdirections.org/.
* Edge of the Web, Perth: http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/.
* Usability evaluation and training workshop in Canberra, 01–02., December : http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html & http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html.
* For other web, design, and tech-related events in Australasian region subscribe to the WSG Announce mailing list: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/.
* Facebook acquires FriendFeed: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfeed/.
* New Google Search: http://www2.sandbox.google.com.
* For your weekly dose of über wank: http://chairwhore.blogspot.com.
* Pascal’s new site: http://klepas.org. [You're such an attention whore! -Andy]
* Again, Jekyll: http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/.
* Jason Santa Maria’s beautiful website: http://jasonsantamaria.com.

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OAO.

Episode 2! This show we cover some errata which turned into a mini-feature section with updates on webfonts, notably developments at TypeCon2009 and thoughts concerning EOT — if the proprietary compression technology was not used and URL/domain root binding wasn’t in effect then could it be the web font we could all use and pick up tomorrow? Also: mentioned: a negative Microsoft stigma, shitty Safari @font-face webfont handling during the download of the font file, and a note on where to find good, freely licensed fonts for @font-face font linking (see the links below).

The second feature focuses on security, with goodness for all. We cover briefly important points for sys admins before addressing security concerns for developers. Next up Pascal provides your weekly dose of wank with more security related [Sort of? --Andy] design and user experience musings and finally both Andy and Pascal finish the section with some advice for managers and the legal folk who deal with web content.

Andy closes the podcast with a big ‘fuck you’ to a certain popular company named after a fruit who are doing awfully stupid things by denying certain applications from being sold in their stupidly controlled application store (HINT: I’M TALKING ABOUT APPLE), and a joint ‘fuck you’ to buy.com (et al.).

We should note the Open Atrium review is coming — we’ve both been busy or between doors too much in the past week.

In order of appearance:

• Canberra Google Wave Hackathon – Sign up fast!
• TypeCon2009 Web Fonts Panel Recording
• ttf2eot converter utility
• HTTP Access Control Mozilla Developer Center article
• Listings of TTF/OTF freely embeddable, licensed fonts: http://www.fontsquirrel.com and http://tr.im/webfontslist
• SQL Injection Attacks (Wikipedia)
• Cross-site scripting attacks
• Security Now Episode 195 on SSL
• Bruce Schneier’s blog
• Insecure Passwords in use by security professionals (Dean Kaminsky gets hacked, article c/o Wired.com)
• The buy.com (and Orbitz, et al.) credit card third-party advertiser scandal

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If at first you don’t succeed, try a bigger explosive. :)

@klepas and I put together a podcast. It’s going to be a bi-weekly sort of affair (or whenever we feel like it). I should note, first up, that the audio quality is pretty terrible. It was a first shot and not one of the three recording devices we used were really up to scratch – we’ll definitely have that fixed before next time!

In this episode, we discuss:

1. Recent events in the world of web fonts (proposals to bring more fonts to the web, and the advent of TypeKit)
2. The pronunciation of Opera (Oh-pear-uh? Op-er-rah?)
3. Static vs. Dynamic Website Content Generators
4. OpenAtrium, a new intranet package based on Drupal (which we’ll review next time around!)

Turns out ID3 metadata in MP3s is pretty limited – our show notes in the MP3 cut out about a third of the way through. So, here’s some useful links:

1. ‘Beautiful Web Typography’ talk slides
2. Typekit
3. Kernest
4. Jekyll
5. Development Seed
6. Drupal
7. Open Atrium
8. http://klepas.org/
9. http://klepas.org/beta

The intro music we used is the opening riff of ‘Fake It’ by Brad Sucks (http://www.bradsucks.net/albums/out_of_it/), licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Since we’re just getting this off the ground we’d love feedback. Feel free to email us – arcwhite@arcwhite.org and klepas@klepas.org.

This show is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/).

We hope you enjoy!