Regular readers of Graphic Diction may have noticed that for a week, the publication has been shut down with a reboot holder live. I’m excited to announce that Graphic Diction has participated in the May 1st Reboot movement and we’ll discuss what inspired the new layout.

As quoted from their authors, “May 1st Reboot offers a chance for convergence within, what continues to be, an increasingly fragmented and segregated medium. The event is a public showcase of collectivity and individuality, of cohesion without uniformity, part of an increasingly pressing drive to demonstrate the significant and potential of digital authorship in a medium becoming more and more saturated by bland conformist methodologies and insipid commercialised aesthetics.” For me, they represent the freedom allowed in design over the Internet and the movements to revolutionize within the medium.

It’s not uncommon when we hear news about rips being made from designers and developers, but it’s rare to hear about a case where the organization is like the Olympics, a respectable organization, and not just another big-shot company. Not only are we talking about the same type of game, it is the exact same game with changed out graphics here and there. Sohu has stolen the idea, the concept, the execution - the game, the source code and the graphics. That’s a lot of stealing.

And it isn’t only 1 or 2 games, 3 games in total are in question so far. Cadin Batrack, from The Pencil Farm, brought it to the attention of the 2008 Beijing Olympics representatives saying, “At the time Sohu made three requests of Google: that they stop offering the software for download as quickly as possible, that they make an apology, and that they discuss compensation for the offense. I’m currently considering my legal options, but I think these three things sound like reasonable requests to make of Sohu.”

This is biased, (it’s also my blog) but I am announcing Jasper New York as the best Flash web site for 2007.
Warm, sensual, bold and refreshing, this web site presents the entire ambiance of the architecture being showcased in a way that we, as humans, relate to. Using motion and photography in a seamless presentation […]

Bulletproof Ajax, by Jeremy Keith, is a wonderful guide to using Ajax on the Internet. (I will define Ajax later on in this article.) You receive 200 pages full of demonstration, theory, tutorials, pictures and suggestions. I recommend this book only to persons who are new to Ajax, especially JavaScript.

To begin, I’d like to say […]