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A List Apart is trying to help create a better picture of who Web professionals are. To accomplish this goal they're offering a survey. It takes less than 10 minutes and is written well. Here's you're opportunity to be in the picture.

I can't wait to see the results.

When Brian Collins spoke to AIGA Orlando a few months ago, he said the MFA is the MBA of tomorrow. Businesses are seeking innovation to gain the competitive edge. To find that creativity they are turning to design schools.

It seems to be the right time for brushing up on what design schools have to offer. To help with that the innovation section of businessweek.com has a link-full page of articles relating to Top Innovation and Design Schools. There's even a table for comparing D-Schools.

Kelly K. Spors has a good plain language article in today's Wall Street Journal about Search Engine Optimization, unfortunately it is only available online to WSJ.com subscribers. If you find yourself needing to explain how search engine rankings work to a lay-person this article is useful.

Supporting the article is a video interview with Adam Lasnik from Google. To learn optimization insights straight from Google, watch it (and an advertisement) below.

Not sure if this is a concept or a real product. These are 4 layers of darkening gray paper followed by a bright red paper on the bottom that are cut and sticky like postit notes. However, they cover a whole wall and give a beautiful digital effect. I would LOVE to have a wall of those in my office AND home! (Via David Benton)

I was reading on nytimes.com and absentmindedly double-clicked a word in the article body. Up popped a window with the definition of the word I clicked on. Turners out that every word in the article body has that feature. It's a great way to be able to expand your vocabulary when you are reading online.

With all the websites and passwords that a web worker has to manage these days, it becomes harder and harder to remember them all. When I got my first PowerBook, I started using Safari and the built in support with Keychain. I liked the security and the fact that most of the time it worked. However soon I was having to manage multiple logins for single applications, or then I would have applications that had more then just username and password that had to be remembered. Last fall I found the solution to that problem: 1Passwd.