Mustafa Kurtuldu is a good friend of mine who unfortunately lived through a most horrific incident last year in London on July 7th: He was one on one of the trains that was bombed by Muslim suicide bombers. Mustafa, who is one of the kindest people I know, runs a not-for-profit company that does new media work for charities. One year on, he writes about his experiences following the aftermath of 7/7 for The Times.

... and boy are my eyes tired! All I can say for now is that there is some pretty amazing Flash work being created and I am delighted to see people pushing the boundaries of what can be done with Flash.

I've also got three bits of advice to share with anyone who is going to submit an entry to a Flash contest: (more...)

This week, Robert Scoble hits a badly implemented Flash site (without alternative content) and generalizes from this one experience that he will not use Flash: Why I don't use Flash.

This is akin to watching Battlefield Earth and concluding that film is a terrible medium because you just sat through a really, really, really crappy one.

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Imagine this: Someone tries to break into your home over five thousand times a week. Or attempts to defraud you over and over again. You'd call the police, right? The law would (rightly) get involved. So why didn't I call the police last week when multiple parties tried to use this blog in an unauthorized manner over five thousand times? Why are the rules different on the Internet? I am, of course, talking about spam.

I would argue that the most valuable, and scarcest, commodity that each one of us have today is time on earth. Given that, and given that my website and my email account account are my property, shouldn't any attempt to steal my time and use my property without authorization be a criminal act that is policed at the highest levels? Forget the war on terror, we are bleeding to death here in the spam wars. Without legistlation and without a sustained official response to this criminal act, we are also seeing the rise of the only other alternative: Internet citizens are taking the battle into their own hands and being forced to become vigilantes in order to protect themselves, their sites and their most precious commodity, time.

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Made a little time today to update the blog. Check out the new header -- I love playing in Photoshop :)