Brian Suda has a great article on Sitepoint about Portable Social Networks. 

By combining things such as microformats and OpenID we can start to own our online identity a little more and forgo the usual rigmarole of entering all of our contacts to every new social network that we join.

When you look at it the pieces aren’t that new.  I’ve been using microformats in my day job for a little while now and I’ve personally had an OpenID for well over a year as part of my ClaimID.  but the exciting part comes, as with everything web related, when you combine them.

Managing your online identity is becoming much more important and articles such as Brian’s is a great step forward towards achieving that.  There are some great links in this article and, if you’re interested, you should also check out another Brian’s portable social networks posts.

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Richard Rutter has a great article, How to Size Text in CSS, on A List Apart this week.  He breaks down how to achieve uniform text resizing across the most used browsers at the moment.

It takes a little math and some CSS dabbling but it’s well worth it.

I was lucky enough to see the presentation he gave with Mark Boulton at SXSWi’07  - one of the highlights of the whole conference and explores the same thinking about web typography, but in greater detail.

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It’s been quiet around here as we’ve all been busy in our 9-5 jobs.

I have a couple of posts that I’ve been struggling with that are growing in size so I think I’ll bite the bullet and edit them down to be two or three parters.

I’m going to be attending the Cleveland Web Standards meetup tomorrow, so say Hi if you see me.  Should be a good one - CSS.

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I’ve posted an email interview where I asked Will Reed (Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped) five questions on standards and accessibility.

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Looks like the last guy in city government with a clue about technology just left the building. Listen to Tech Czar Michael DeAloia when he met the bloggers last week, as he gives you an inside view it’s like trying to get tech companies into Cleveland.

It’s about time someone said (and confirmed) what many of us have been thinking.

[found via Eric G. Wiley's blog]

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