Steffan Jahn – found at theFWA.

Flash & XPath – it looks like I’m a bit late on this, but XPath looks a hundred times easier to use than my old-school way of looping through millions of ChildNodes in Flash.
update: my co-worker has tipped me off to XMLSA …claims it makes XPath look like dookie … hmmm
The Coming RIA Wars – It seems I have some homework to do.

“…Rupert Murdoch moves back up to the top of the heap of Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list…” – I’m sure the aquisition of MySpace helped him get up there. How about some props to the guys who built MySpace? Maybe they should be up there? Like Murdoch, I am also a good shopper, and I usually pick some of the coolest clothes and gadgets before many of my friends know about them. Top of the list for being a good shopper. Well done, Rupert.
And in other news…
MySpace is Over – the age-old cycle continues as the rich companies buy the cool stuff, make it uncool, and search for the next cool thing.

Look closely, you’ll see that all the marine life are clothes.
Beautiful.

Some great reading:
So You Want to Be an Interaction Designer 2006 – I’ve never read an article that describes what I do, my skillset and personality type like this. Kinda creepy at first (Found via StyleGala).
So You Want To Be An Interaction Designer – the article from which the above was built on.

Most Influential Flash Site Of The Decade – 2Advanced wins at theFWA.
I agree with this win 100%. Let me start off by saying that I am not a fan of the Eric Jordan style – probably because I have seen hundreds of sites that imitate the techie-futuristic-slick style that he established. Being the most influential in any subject sounds like a great thing, but in this case I’m not so sure.
I’m going to alter the title for myself and declare the most influential person to me as an interactive designer – Robert Penner. Robert Penner took the concept of movement and friction in Flash and broken down to what it is: position is a function of time, or p=f(t). From here came the birth of the Tween Prototypes from Laco…. and from there was created the Fuse Engine.
I would never have to deal with Zeno’s Paradox again.

Well the folks over at Analogue.ca are doing some crazy stuff with the Flash player webcam functionality.
From analogue.ca:

With the launch of You Appear in Art (webcam required), we are putting out a call for submissions. We want to see photographs of what people are creating using You Appear in Art. Simply taking a picture of the creation on your screen is all we need you to do. Then send it to us.

For complete info, head over to analogue.ca.

WorldTV.com – like a good chunk of new internet companies (Digg, del.icio.us, YouTube), this one started as the one-guy-who-wanted-to-organize-his-[fill in the blank].
People should keep this mentality in mind when they’re trying to think of the next big thing. Just think of what YOU need.
Oh, and WorldTV has a great blog too.

Jason Reinsvold’s Bow Master – don’t waste too much of your Friday on this game.

Why I Hate Digg – an interesting perspective (and discussion) on the social technology news site.
The Next Net 25 – I appreciate the level-headedness of this article. It’s forward looking but also realistic, acknowledging the fact that not all the companies on its list will survive.

Mosessupposes.com has dropped a new Fuse Kit on his site. Go get it!
Why do you need The Fuse Kit in Adobe Flash? Do you like the motion on Leo Burnett? Billy Harvey Music? Any of the work of Seraph.nl? How about Group 94? Kurt Noble? Firstborn? TCC?
Now I’m not saying every one of these sites uses the Tween class (mine does), but if you want to achieve the seemless motion and transitions that these sites achieve, using the Fuse Kit would be a step in the right direction.

Looks like Edward Tufte has a new book out, new to me at least:

Beautiful Evidence, by Edward R. Tufte

Women I, 1950-52, Oil on canvas, 75 7/8″ x 58″

There’s a dimension that we don’t understand. In other words, if you have a landscape or and interior you have a space. You can deal with it in terms of images and what-not. But you can’t really understand what paint is doing. Paint is doing something that you ask it to do in order get the nose on somebody’s face. The paint also does something that isn’t the nose on the face. What is does is fascinating. It’s a new geography.

• Willem de Kooning, from de Kooning: An American Master

I might have to pick this shirt up: