I am posting this article simply to test this great looking new facility called IntenseDebate. Being a HUGE twitter fan this facility appeals to me for its ability to automatically submit blog comments to twitter for your followers to read. I am going to post the IntenceDebate comment tool below to experiment a little and provide feedback for those interested.

Please leave your feedback in the form below to be sent to my twitter followers. Any constructive, short note will do as I need to see how this thing will work. If you have any experience with this facility, even better.

It’s come to pass that the funding necessary to maintain and grow validation services at the W3C has become overwhelming to the W3C ’s operational budget. As such, the validators are in jeopardy.

PunkLogic has just donated a small amount of dosh to the cause. It will be a sad day when W3C validation services are no longer free. Lets hope we don't see this happen.

Here's some interesting information about Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the internet and the World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

Plugging in to social media can be one of the most rewarding experiences for your business online. With so many tools and facilities available, where do you start? For this phase of our website development, I am going to stick to the tools I know and commence researching the ones I don't. I will post any useful information I find here, but in the mean time the tools I have chosen to work with are:

• LinkedIn
• digg
• twitter
• facebook

It is very easy to setup and link to any of these facilities, but the cool toy I want to talk about is a little jQuery twitter plugin called tweet. There are several jQuery twitter plugins available, but this one in particular has some very nice features that stand out to me.

For those of you who think twitter is just another waste of valuable man hours, here's a very interesting article by Business Week, Why Twitter Matters.

To view the jQuery plugin 'Tweet' in action on this site, click the tab in the header of this page 'PunkLogic elsewhere', then  click on the twitter icon.

I’ve  just donated a few bucks to get this advertisment shown on TV at the Boxing Day cricket match.
Get up!:
"Even as he was announcing woefully inadequate climate targets on Monday, Prime Minister Rudd was setting aside over $130 million for an 'information campaign' to sell us his sparse climate package. Doesn’t it remind you of the kind of climate policy John Howard would have announced?
Thousands of GetUp members are donating to air this ad during the Boxing Day Cricket Test, to an audience of millions."
We are being taken for a ride. This has to change.

Tim Brown, CEO of  Ideo an innovation and design firm on Creativity and play.
random snippets: 'We fear the judgement of our peers... this fear is causing us to be conservative in our thinking....
Creativity florishes in an environment of trust, when it is ok to take risks...
also some nice  observations about the importance of prototyping.