Links & notes for this month

• • Hey Norton! - Ken Norton's blog - User triangulation: how to listen to customers -- Good article on how to listen to your target market - in the right way - and launch development off that | business crm earlyadoption
• Yet another photograph of me holding forth about something or other. I think, given the hand gestures on both our parts, Paul might have been telling me about Perl 6... (Taken at the last London Rails/Django meet). | me, meetup, photo
• Screenwriter Josh Friedman is blogging. As well as being an interesting insight into, well, the semi-crazy world of Hollywood pitching, it's also pretty darn funny. | blog, hollywood, screenwriting
• OK, this is my new favourite thing on the internet this week: the Shadow Percussion Project [details from Musicthing]. Enterprising young percussion teacher teaches his high-school percussion group to play live arrangements of tracks from DJ Shadow's Endtroducing...; the result is awesome. Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt works better than Changeling IMHO, but that's only because I like it more as a track; the drummer gets the chopped-drum-break about two minutes in down to a tee. [61mb wmv file at the other end, but well worth it] | djshadow, live, music, percussion, performance
• Clearleft - a new Brighton-based web design and accessibility consultancy, based in Brighton, and run by Andy, Richard, and Jeremy. None of whom I've met personally, you understand, but their writing, presentation and weblogs are all top-notch. Worth checking out if you're in need of a design or accesibility expert - or three. | business, webdesign
• Chris Glass' website is really beautiful. He's also a fine, minimalist, writer. Certainly a site I'll be going back to in the near future. | blog, webdesign, website
• Dilworth Typographics present: Dilworth. Very, very beautiful typeface; has that whole seriousness-but-futuristic thing going on that reminds me of the late sixties - and, say, the typography in 2001, for instance. | typography
• Katrina: The Gathering. Possibly tasteless. Possibly a little spot-on. It's funnier if you can play Magic, obviously. [from dan] | games, katrina, magic, satire
• Woah. Ebay to buy Skype for $2.6bn. That's a whole lotta cash, and not necessarily coming from who I might have expected. I'm still mulling on the significance of this. | business, ebay, skype, voip
• So whilst everyone's been talking about the Guardian's brand new look, a far less significant relaunch almost slipped under the radar. Fortunately, my work email tells me that Quark have rebranded and redesigned their site. All looks a bit shiny to me; quite like the new "Q" logotype, the site's pretty enough, but I'm not a fan of the pale grass-green at all. Is the whole lot just too futuristic for the slightly cranky product? We'll see. The preview of Quark 7 essentially suggests it's playing serious catchup to Indesign CS2 (at long last). | design, dtp, quark, redesign