Most of the words in the English language are greatly underutilized. Words like fracas and sanguine and superlative don’t pop up nearly as often as simpler words like book or car or the. This simple observation has a name: It’s called Zipf’s Law, named for an obscure linguistics professor, George Ki
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(Publish) — For Web designers, so-called “rich media” has long been an irresistible temptation. Plain text and HTML seems so bland to the black-clad art-school crowd-wouldn’t it be better to juice up the home page with a few animated GIF files and maybe an interactive game built in Macromedia Flash?
It’s been a tough year for many high-profile startups-but one with valuable lessons about how to produce and use online content. Among the recent spate of dotcom layoffs and company failures, big content-focused sites have taken some of the worst beatings. Webcaster Pseudo Networks shut down in Sept