Sniff.

Silicon Republic cover the new wave of Irish tech startups and how difficult it can be to get funding in Ireland compared to our European and especially US counterparts.

Full article here...

Yes it's been very quite on our blog recently, due to the total lack of quite in our office. :)

Great article on the importance of content and the need for an editor on web projects at A List Apart: The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome...

Khoi Vinh on designers in numbers: Great Numbers, Not So Great Design.

Great Discovery Channel promo. Love it. (Not for hardened cynics)

37signals post about how Urgency is Poisonous.

Not only is it poisonous but it seems to be everywhere. It's almost like people think something is up if it is not urgent. People can be organised and get things done well without incessant pressure(stress) which just leads to more disorganisation and then off we go to more pressure and so on. I personally find that urgency stems from disorganisation or procrastination in the first place.

"Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Quoted from a magazine interview with Steve Jobs, in a 2003 in the New York Times.