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A brief dive into the fiction and nonfiction that passed across my nightstand this year. A lot of good stuff in the fiction arena. In terms of web design books, start-to-finish quality is getting harder and harder to find.

Almost every designer with a baleful eye toward the economy has a portfolio of their design work locked and loaded. But when you take that book in for interviews, make sure you’re not making really stupid mistakes that drive hiring managers up a wall. I guarantee you’re transgressing on at least half the items in this list.

Ruminations on the death of the keyword metatag, wherein our hero again questions GOOG and the other horsemen of the search apocalypse.

As web continues to evolve, it is harder than ever to build sites that remain technically relevant. Here are some tips in architecting designs that meet the needs of the visitor community now and in the future.

While the discussion of RDFa and microformats has been ongoing through the web development community for years, Google recently announced explicit support for both kinds of structured data. Is there room for both in the future, or do we need a true standard to rally around? I dunno. Maybe you do.