San Francisco Chronicle: "Mayor Gavin Newsom confirmed Thursday that he has met with Quakes president and general manager Alexi Lalas and other team representatives to talk about moving the Major League Soccer squad north from San Jose." A soccer-specific stadium in China Basin was discussed. Kezar Stadium or SBC Park could be temporary venues until the new stadium is constructed....
Ellen Florian wrote an interesting article in Fortune magazine about the history of the automatic teller machine as well as the changes in human-machine interaction they pioneered. (via Slashdot)...
David Crosby and Graham Nash have come up with a clever way to market their new CD: structure a Web site and weblog like a presidential site. Watch the weblogging world get a hold of the story and you have a very cheap marketing campaign. (via MetaFilter)...
Karen Schaler writes about free cosmetic surgery for members of the United States armed forces in the July 26 issue of the The New Yorker.
Daniel Terdiman of Wired News reports on Bakersfield's The Northwest Voice newspaper giving its readers control of its content through online article posting. "36 percent of the content is photographs, while 13 percent is school news, 11 percent is community events, 7 percent is youth sports and 2 percent is church news. Ten percent of coverage is columns written by locals selected by Fulton for their expertise on things like horses, cars, schools and outdoor life."...
Dave Matthews Band will play a free concert at the Polo Fields in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on September 12. "The concert will benefit Bay Area community charities addressing issues of homelessness among single adults, youth and families, pediatric AIDS and other terminal childhood maladies, Bay Area park improvement and music education resources."...
Charles Fishman writes about Whole Foods in the July 2004 issue of Fast Company. The management insights are very interesting. Every new hire has to win a two-thirds yes vote from their team before being permitted to join the staff permanently. (via Jason Kottke) Every four weeks, individual work teams (there are roughly 10 per store) are assessed for productivity, and profit sharing is awarded in every other paycheck....
In an interview with the Guardian, Ashley Highfield of the BBC mentions their new push into search as alternative to U.S. based companies such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. "[A]s the market came to be dominated by US sites - the most popular of which is Google - there was value in investing licence fee payers' money in a UK-centric search engine." The BBC's current search offering uses Inktomi but optimizes results for a UK audience....
aDesigner is a disability simulator that helps Web designers "test the accessibility and usability of Web pages for low-vision and blind people." Only available on Windows 2000 and Windows XP....
Jason Cook wrote a optimization guide for Atom and RSS and it is now available on Webmonkey. GZip compress, use conditional gets, and validate your feeds. A good use of statistics to drive the point home....
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