The iMedia Brand Summit might be over, but the social media experiment has only just begun. Now that you’ve got a ‘proper’ internet connection again, you can easily order yours today.

Remember – 50% of all profiit will be donated to BeyondBlue.

Rule #52: Ditch the headset. He can barely pull it off – and you are not him.

The latest edition arrived in the mail today and Brad Pitt gets featured discussing “the new rules for digital gentlemen and other highly evolved humans”.

On his thoughts of tweeting a picture of his wife’s butt like Ashton Kutcher did of Demi Moore:

“Don’t take a picture of your wife’s butt. That’s silly. Take pictures of other people’s wives’ butts.”

On lying about how much money you make on your online dating profile:

“Everyone lies online. In fact, readers expect you to lie. If you don’t, they’ll think you make less than you actually do. So the only way to tell the truth is to lie.”

On talking on the phone while taking a whiz:

“No, you can’t talk on the phone! Do you want the guy next to you to hear your entire conversation? That’s why you should only text in the bathroom. Just be sure you don’t hit the wrong button and end up putting a photo of your junk on Twitter. Trust me, you don’t want those followers.

On sometimes awkward cyber dilemmas:

“Who cares if your Warcraft wife is really a dude. If it’s good, don’t check under the hood.”

Oh, and there’s some great infographics in this edition as well.

A recent ad for Lenovo.

Here’s the latest t-shirt out of the bag. For all of those who are anti trance or the mainstay of the Sydney club culture at the moment, generic electro-house, this ones for you. Or perhaps you were the one who brought the cops down to the DSS Warehouse party on Saturday. If that was the case, you definitely need schooling on your music.

Classic.
Simple.
Overused.
Uninspired.

What do you consider Helvetica to be?

The documentary Helvetica screens on SBS tonight at 10.05pm. Missed it? You can watch it over here.

Or… perhaps you’re after a little light, type humour? Heres’s the Font Conference.

Mad flow from The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site.

Lyrics:

Your site design is the first thing people see
It should be reflective of you and the industry
Easy to look at with a nice navigation
When you can’t find what you want it causes frustration
A clear call to action to increase the temptation
Use appealing graphics they create motivation
If you have animation
Use with moderation
Cause search engines can’t index the information
Display the logos of all your associations
Highlight your contact info that’s an obligation
Create a clean design you can use some decoration
But to try to prevent any client hesitation
Every page that they click should provide an explanation
Should be easy to understand like having a conversation
When you design the style go ahead and use your imagination
But make sure you use correct color combinations
Do some investigation, look at other organizations
But don’t duplicate or you might face a litigation
Design done, congratulations but it’s time to start construction
Follow these instructions when you move into production
Your photoshop functions then slice that design
Do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned
Please don’t use tables even though they work fine
When it come to indexing they give searches a hard time
Make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide
Remove font type, font color and font size
No background colors, keep your coding real neat,
Tag your look and feel on a separate style sheet
Better results with xml and css
Now you making progress, a lil closer to success
Describe your doctype so the browser can relate
Make sure you do it great or it won’t validate
Check in all browsers, I do it directly
Gotta make sure that it renders correctly
Some use IE, some others use Flock
Some use AOL, I use Firefox
Title everything including links and images
Don’t use italics, use emphasis
Don’t use bold, please use strong
If you use bold that’s old and wrong
When you use CSS, you page will load quicker
Client satisfied like they eating on a Snickers
They stuck on your page like you made it with a sticker
And then they convert now that’s the real kicker
Make you a lil’richer, your site a lil slicker
Design and code right man I hope you get the picture
What I’m telling you is true man it should be a scripture
If it’s built right you’ll be the pick of the litter
Everyone will want to follow you like Twitter
Competition will get bitter and you’ll shine like glitter
If you trying to grow your company will get bigger
Design and code right man can you get with it

Thanks to Lucas for this one.

Where music meets the elements. Essential for physicists and dub fanatics alike.

Available for purchase at Red Bubble.

Now there’s a headline for you! Below’s an excerpt from Chapter 13 of Luke Wroblewski’s forthcoming book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (Rosenfeld Media, 2008). And the excerpt is an excellent read for what it’s worth.

I’ll just come out and say this: sign-up forms must die. In the introduction to this book I described the process of stumbling upon or being recommended to a web service. You arrive eager to dive in and start engaging and what’s the first thing that greets you? A form.

We can do better. In fact, I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step.

Read the full article at A List Apart.

Hi! You will have noticed that I’ve made quite a few changes on the site over the last few days which has been in the pipeline for about three months now. Yes, it is actually version 16, which isn’t too many considering that the site is 13 years old!

New features, some that you can see, some that you can’t, including:

• A new coat of paint and CSS driven layout – a clean look to allow the you, the user to focus on the photography across the site
• Content management system upgrade – to Wordpress 2.3.3 (from 2.0.4)
• Improved search engine optimisation (SEO)
• XML sitemap capability – a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo
• Social bookmark “chicklets” – share the posts across your favourite social networking sites like Delicious, Facebook and Digg

There’s a few bugs and some further improvements to be introduced over coming weeks, but nothing that will stop you reading the content. So, let me know what you think!

The members of Kraftwerk get spelled out. Buy at Redbubble.