Mozilla's School of Webcraft

Mozilla is taking submissions for the January semester of free, open, online courses that teach web development in partnership with Peer 2 Peer University. First time I've heard about this, and it looks awesome.

Vimeo Video School

Over 800 lessons on video production from gear and shooting to editing and sound.

I made tea.

Scott McClellan has an excellent post out: A Call to Edit. Go read that first. Now check out this great tool. Take any text and begin expanding it. I'm trying to think how this could be used as an activity in reverse. Take a large body of text

Rise of the Mashup

A constantly recurring theme I'm seeing in viral design work is the idea of mashups. You know, taking 2 unrelated things and putting them together for fun and mischief. Mashups seem to have many elements that appeal to our senses: The unexpected, humorous situations, cult classics and nostalgia.

365 Projects

As we prepare to close out 2010 and start that annual ritual of forgetting to write 2011 on everything with a date field, it's a popular time to start a 365 project. These types of things are notorious for failing (and you know what? That's ok