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It would appear record companies aren’t the only corporates’ immune to missing the entire point of an actual, genuine online journal and presence:

The organization’s announcement is essentially a press release dumped into a blog entry, the byline of which merely says “Blog Council.”

A spiffy logo and canned announcement full of pointless drivel and corporate kiss-butt self-idolizing hippy crap does not a blogging community constitute. Mr Storey nails it best — “After six years big business still has no idea what to do with this blog thing.”

Stuart Brown rolls us through his take on 2007 - More Web Design Trends & Cliches:

“It’s been well over a year since I compiled the original list of web clichés, so I figured it was time to revisit some of the trends currently prevalent in web design now.”

Some interesting punters have turned up in the parade along with some gorgeous descriptive illustrations. Succinct and devoid of the typical fluff and space fillers many such “reviews” tend to collect.

Bill Israel has released another tumblr theme, Letterhead:

“Not sure what came over me, but Saturday morning I woke up with the urge to create a new Tumblr theme. So that’s exactly what I did!”

Bill is fast becoming the tumblr themery architect and go-to guy.

Shawn Blanc reflects on his current work load and Creative Design Poverty:

“There is much more to design than white space, the two-thirds rule, and font selection. Those tricks and elements surely help when we’re stuck, but I know for certain that they are not what real creative design is all about.”

Tools and standards cannot define creativity in of themselves. Design is the outward expression of inward creative thinking.

“I look at the elements and standards of good design as the launching pad to what creative design is really about: Creating.”

Amen.