Category: Internet and web

Happy OneWebDay

OneWebDayI got up early on this Saturday just to wish you all a Happy OneWebDay.

What am I talking about?

The mission of OneWebDay is to create, maintain, advance and promote a global day to celebrate online life: September 22

So…

Leave your mark online, directly or indirectly. Do a blog post, or a video, about the most interesting thing you’ve seen online recently. Teach someone how to edit a wiki or send a link to a digital photo. Find a way to help more people get online. The internet is made up of all of these individual contributions – it’s a social world, and much more than just a collection of machines.

The central goal of OneWebDay is to encourage people not to take the internet for granted. It’s under threat around the world from a variety of directions, and it’s up to people (just like you) to recognize that these threats exist, that we have a shared responsibility for the future of the internet, and that a global, interoperable internet is important to all of us.

Rock-bottom font, Jayhawk?

The University of Kansas‘ recent decision to incorporate new typography into its athletics uniforms is not sitting well with at least one student.

ku_trajan.jpgBradley Lewis does not like the Trajan font KU has adopted as part of its visual identity, and has taken to the web in protest.

Lewis’ website, Trajan Sucks, laments the demise of the “curling, arc-serifed typeface” that for decades has “emblazoned the uniforms of our beloved University of Kansas basketball players as they earned conference championships, final four appearances, and even a national championship.” He complains about how university officials are “[e]schewing this rich tradition in favor of an ill-conceived (and expensive) attempt to standardize the KU brand.” The new typography cuts a “lackluster profile” for his beloved Jayhawks. Oh, and he’s selling “Trajan Sucks” T-shirts, too, in the old font. $10 each, plus shipping.

About 15 or so fellow Jayhawk fans have expressed their opinions on the site, too.

As for me, I’m fine with the Trajan font. But I’m no Jayhawks fan, either.

Hat tip: Church of the Customer, which linked to this Brains on Fire link.