The winners of the 10th Annual Webby Awards, an international award honoring excellence in web design, creativity, usability and functionality presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, were announced this week. Two winners are awarded in each of the 60 plus categories: the Webby Award winner is chosen by the Academy and the People’s Voice Award winner is chosen by public vote. Additionally, five Special Achievement Honorees are awarded as well as, literally, hundreds of Official Honorees. It seems it’s harder NOT to be recognized by the Academy then it is to get noticed. Full Article »

Please give a hearty CoFactors welcome to Joelle Klein — our first Guest Blogger. Based in Denver, Joelle is an accomplished writer and an astute observer of human nature (both on and off the web). Full Article »

Forgetting — if it’s possible — the intense and acrimonious political debate over Intelligent Design , there are two videos making the viral rounds at the moment that illustrate, from opposite sides of the debate, the incredible way that “nature” (for lack of a better word) designs organisms and mechanisms to work optimally in their environment. Full Article »

What does it say about a website that they are willing to place, prominently, on their homepage, a real-time customer satisfaction score and the most recent uncensored customer comments? I think it says that the website is dang proud of the level of service they deliver and extremely confident that these results will be positive most of the time.

Kudos from CoFactors to CustomInk.com for their (apparently) great service and their gutsy decision to place themselves fully in their customers’ hands. I don’t presently need a custom-designed T-Shirt, but if I did this would be the first place I would turn.

Everyone knows how a police lineup works — it’s an obligatory scene in every TV Crime drama. The suspects, feigning a casual innocence, blinking in the glare of the lights, face forward then shuffle around to turn to the side. The nervous witness (usually an elderly woman with glasses, anxiously clutching her handbag) squints at the suspects’ faces, trying hard to identify the man she saw from her bedroom window fleeing the scene (”It was so dark, I can’t be sure…”). Full Article »