David Emery Online

Interesting

15 January 2007

One of my favourite blogs – Gapingvoid.com – is really on a roll right now; check out Hugh’s Random thoughts on being an entrepreneur. and Random Notes On Blogging.

Both of these are well worth your time.

While Hugh quite often writes things I disagree with, he always writes things that are thought provoking and interesting; being interesting is probably the most important thing you can be, these days.

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On a different note, the record industry seems to be heading into rocky waters, not that this is much of a surprise. It looks very much like EMI is in serious trouble, and could well take down several prestigious labels such as Parlophone and Mute with it, which would be a real shame. In similar news, V2 North America, home of The White Stripes, Moby and more in the states has laid off all its staff releasing all its artists from their contracts.

All this happening at the same time that an unsigned band has entered the UK top 40.

It’ll be interesting to see where this all goes.

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Finally, check out the some of the proposed elements and attributes in HTML 5 – the thinking seems to be to try and change code with divs and ids to use elements with more semantic meaning. To be honest, I don’t think this will really make a huge amount of difference to someone already writing semantic markup, but should hopefully push some less well informed coders in the right direction.