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Transition Drupal wireframes get a bit out of control

One of the more com­plex web design pro­jects I’ve recently been involved with is this “site in a box” Drupal int­all­a­tion pro­file for the Trans­ition Town move­ment. Check their map for a sense of the num­ber of our poten­tial clients.

The home page for the Kensal to Kilburn Transition Town website

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A new way to display the spoken word in manuscripts and screenplays & speeches

In 1996, while in my third year at Cent­ral St Mar­tins col­lege of design, I devised a basic sys­tem for  dis­play­ing the spoken word typo­graph­ic­ally. Since then I’ve expan­ded it into a full nota­tion sys­tem. I’d really value your feed­back and ideas on ways to improve it as well as any input from speech-writers, screen and stage writers and radio pro­du­cers on whether this would be of any use to you.

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An exciting shared authoring opportunity

I was recently asked by Ed Mitchell from the Trans­ition Net­work to par­ti­cip­ate in an exper­i­ment to share the author­ing and man­age­ment of the Trans­ition­Towns Twit­ter account along with top bloke Richard Barnett of Trans­ition New Forest who posts to Twit­ter on the TT New Forest account.

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Rest in Peace, Email 1965? – ?2010

If you believe Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg’s com­ments at the recent Nielsen’s Con­sumer 360 con­fer­ence, then Email is set to die-off in only a few years, but if you read Aus­tin Carr’s recent Open Thread art­icle on Fast­Com­pany I think you see a far more likely scen­ario emerge, i.e. some sort of phased trans­ition or con­tinual upgrade…

Any­way, to appro­pri­ately mark the passing of such an import­ant part of all our lives, the pro­fes­sional lovely lady Beth Kanter sug­ges­ted I carve a memorial tomb­stone (using JJ Chandler’s Tomb­stone Gen­er­ator tool).

This is what I came up with but please add your own sug­ges­tions in the comments:

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Rob Newman’s History of Oil

I just found this series of videos from Rob Newman’s His­tory of Oil series via a com­ment link from Mike Ruppert’s excel­lent From the Wil­der­ness blog. I thought they were so insight­ful as well as funny that I’d post the lot here in a series so you can watch the whole lot. Enjoy: Con­tin­ued…

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Transition site design: Basic content & wide content page

Basic con­tent page

The basic con­tent page is a fairly bog-standard three column model with a wide range of regions which col­lapse based on block alloc­a­tion, via the usual Drupal theme layer con­di­tional regions. How­ever, we are explor­ing using Con­text mod­ule or Pan­els to assign blocks and region vis­ib­il­ity. Con­tin­ued…

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