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On Monday, May 12, at 2.28 p.m. Beijing time (6:28 GMT), a major earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale jolted southwestern China's Sichuan Province. It shook the skyscrapers in downtown Shanghai, hundreds of miles away; the shocks were felt as far away as Thailand and Vietnam. The earthquake has rendered over 5 million homeless and a confirmed death toll of over 40,000, a number that is expected to rise dramatically as rescue teams continue to reach the most affected areas (Source: Associated Press). In cities near the earthquake's epicenter, thousands are buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings. We encourage you to support emergency relief efforts by donating to either of these organizations.

应该说Love-idea模式本身就包含着一个创意，它的灵感来自于团队发起人菠萝2007年5月跟随“多背一公斤”志愿者团队走访广西阳朔时看到的一幕场景：一位50多岁的大妈坐在昏暗的屋子里，绣着金闪闪的印度纱丽，可是她并不知道，这种需要一两周时间织成并且只能获得20元报酬的纱丽作为工艺品的市场价格高的惊人，而其中的商业利润已经在销售的中间环节中被克扣殆尽了。似乎是带上了一点感奋的意味，为了帮助无法获得更多回报的底层劳动者，菠萝创立了Love-idea爱心创意团队，她要尽自己所能去改变乡村剩余劳力“为他人做嫁衣裳”的格局。

纽约时报》的读者互动栏目“Talk to the Newsroom”试图在编辑部和读者之间建立桥梁，让自己的编辑和记者轮流主持，专门回答读者的提问。最近当家主持的是时报网站的设计总监Khoi Vinh。为一个媒体的网络版做设计应该是怎样一份工作？这激起了我的好奇。

Many thanks to the 383 people who signed my pledge to aid China's earthquake victims. While we didn't make my artificial and ambitious goal of 500 people by May 20th, I will give more money anyway, and I hope many other people will keep on giving. Thanks to all who spread the world and Oliver Ding who even made a slideshow.

Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field. Indeed the renowned typographer Hermann Zapf proclaims the book to be a must for everybody in the graphic arts, and especially for our new friends entering the field. In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in HTML and CSS. The future is considered with coverage of CSS3, and practicality is ever present with workarounds, alternatives and compromises for less able browsers. At the time of writing, this is a work in progress. I am adding to the site in the order presented in Bringhurst’s book, one principle at a time. You can subscribe to an RSS feed for notification of new additions.

I have great interests in typography subject since studying in graphic design course. It is amazing that by using a certain typefaces with the placement of the types can create incredible visual language even without the using of images. Typography is actually a very professional skills, because it is not just about selecting the right typefaces, but the layout, the size, the grid and many more.

I'm sorry to say that I had previously received an approach from two charities - one via Facebook and the other by email - but hadn't yet made a donation.  However, Jeremiah's Twitter message changed that. Charities, take note...

There are at least 30 people who have indicated they’ve given through Jeremiah’s updates on Twitter, and more – no doubt – who have given privately.

仪式的心理作用： 仪式不仅能满足个人对一个安定、可理解和可强行驾驭世界的认知和情感的需要，而且使人能够在面对自然界的不测时保持安全的心理状态。（马林诺夫斯基） 以毕生之实践钻研仪式的特纳认为，仪式表演是社会过程的重要组成部分，尤其是人们解决危机的重要方式。 以“仪式”为切入点的意义之所在： （1） 突破语言，特别是方言的限制，更有效地帮助人们重建心理。 （2） 言语的咨询一对一较能保证效果，而仪式则由于操作较简练，有助于提高效率，例如团体实施。 （3） 一般咨询过程中，会有咨询师的参与。而仪式中，能够做到只有主体一人的参与。因此后者可能让人更有隐私，更直接地面对自己，释放自己。 （4） 仪式是一种象征性的表达方式。斯宾诺莎指出，人的改变，除了理智，情感是必须的。而荣格说，愈接近原型的事物，唤起的情感愈强。原型不是一种语言，而是一种象征。仪式也正是如此。因此，仪式有潜力深入影响人，改变人。 （5） 有效的仪式不能脱离与当地文化的联系。这让心理疏导不仅仅是一种外来的援助，更有助于挖掘当地优秀文化传统的治愈力量。即，人们不是在被动地接受，而是在主动地发掘自身潜力、治愈和超越。 （6） 仪式具有文化意义。有效的仪式，体现了优秀传统文化的价值，有助于未来它们的传承和发展。

由于受灾者个体的差异性（年龄、性别、信仰、职业等），我们相信没有哪一种仪式是完全符合总体的需求的，我们也相信有无数种仪式的可能，每一种仪式都有一定的辅助作用。于是，我们不把工作重点放在仪式的设计、举办。而是把重点放在工作思路的传授上，让“用仪式重建心理”的工作思路迅速传播出去，尽早帮助受灾者。

The country's leading online retailer has been doing a lot of things right lately, and Goldman Sachs' James Mitchell thinks that the future will only get better for Amazon. He sees sales growing at an annualized clip of more than 20% over the next decade. The buy rating on Goldman's conviction list pegs a $98 price target on the stock.

1. Retail's weakness is Amazon's gain

2. Amazon is a triple threat in digital delivery

Goldman analyst James Mitchell set a buy rating and $98-a-share target price on Amazon's stock, saying the company has been doing well by exploring business routes aside from its traditional online methods such as the Kindle, an electronic book-reading device.

Mitchell said Amazon is seen as being able to sustain its revenue growth longer that most other Internet retailers, and that the company's revenue growth rate in the past quarter matched that of Google Inc.

This document contains a library of patterns used by sites in the Web 2.0 landscape to support the new user sign-up and ramp-up experience. By leveraging the patterns we identified across twenty applications, you'll learn how to get users to join and participate in your network or application.

In addition to the everyday struggles of information overload the average computer user deals with - like the overflowing inbox, for example - those in the internet/new media/technology space aren't just overwhelmed with new content, but also with new applications and choices to manage that content. What's a web-app loving person to do?

Early adopters are not going to stop playing with every new service, but it's clear that we're getting to a point where tools that centralize, aggregate, but most importantly filter our content are going to be the ones that win out. There are only so many hours in the day, and, as it stands right now, every single one of them could be filled just consuming and interacting with content, social media, and web services.

But just like blogs made two-way conversations on the Web relatively cheap, easy, and quick for the masses compared to previous methods (such as personal Web sites), conversational models on the Web have continued to evolve.  Recently, microblogging and social aggregation platforms like Twitter and Friendfeed have emerged to offer alternative models that are compelling for a number of significant reasons. 

Users of the latest social media tools are far more likely to post several times a day, more likely dozens of times, each one forming a new conversational beachhead.  This can be overwhelming, but it can also be enormously stimulating and rewarding, as a form of collaboration, cross-pollination, brainstorming, serendipity, news gathering, and countless other activities provide one with a continuous connection to the broader world.

Twitter Changes Everything - Even Earthquakes

這幾天因為八搶三戰打的正火熱，許多推友（twitter 上的朋友）紛紛將自己的顯示符號改成 CT 版來應援。昨天鄭龜先生興起了一個想用推特 icon 做應援大圖的 idea，於是我也花了短短幾個小時，用 Rails 寫了這樣一個應援制服的收集展示區。

This is not a design or Japan related post, but it is so sad and touching that I had to share it with my blog readers. I came across is tearing slide presentation at SlideShare, about a mother protecting her child in the recent earthquake disaster in Sichuan China. Unfortunately the mother was dead because of the hard objects hitting on her. But the rescuer found out that there is a baby under her child and quickly get him out. The child was fine, thanks to his mother. Then the rescuer found a hand phone near the baby and on the screen, it says “My dearest child, if you are able to survive you must remember that I Love You”. This is such a sad story. In the earthquake that struck last week, it already taken so many people’s life (40,000 and counting), and every life behind there is a family, and there is a story to tell. If there is no earthquake, maybe they are enjoying their life right now with friends and family. But the earthquake just ruined it all. I hope everyone can pray and hope for Sichuan so that everything will become OK. And my respect to all the rescuers and medics and many more unsung heroes who are restless and working hard to save more life.

The images of the earthquake relief effort in China have been horrifying and deeply moving and remind me what has always been so compelling about my job - the ease and speed with which still pictures can impart so much readily understood information to so many people.   

汶川地震 最新灾情 物资需求【灾情】灾区各镇物资需求图 征志愿者（24小时随时更新）