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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.

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.

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.

While browsing through the Webby Awards nominee's for 2007, I found a site call My Moleskine by Fabio Iaschi that is a look inside an artist Moleskine book. It is a nominee for the “Blog - Culture/Personal” section and is a neat way to look through someone's drawings.

Take a look though the other nominee's for this year as it's a great way to see what is happening in the web design world and how other designer's are pushing the medium.

A month or so ago, I was working on a Friday afternoon from home via iChat with the video producer from my work in California. We were trying to get the video podcast up for the weekend and he was having a hard time converting it to 320px by 240px for the ipod. We are currently only using Apple's Quicktime export to iPod but it kept coming up wrong. Time after time he would try it and it was coming out as 640px x 480px. We fought with it for a while trying different options but never did get it correct. Only was the pixel size twice as bit, but the file size was much bigger then we needed.