lynda.com Video Training

When a company such as lynda.com offers free online video training, a person in my line of work signs up. Granted, all the videos are partial-lessons/marketing tools to get us to spend money, but the information they do provide for free is very helpful. And, hey, if you watch one of the training videos and realize you would be better off with the full lesson then it's worth your time and money. Some topics include: Google Search Tips, Podcasting, Flash 8 Video Integration, Click-to-play Videos and CSS Navigation Styles with Dreamweaver 8. Lynda.com has been producing these videos since February of this year. You can subscribe by clicking here. It's well worth your time.

Gapminder: Visualise Human Development

From their Web site: Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations. In collaboration with Google they have produced this software: http://tools.google.com/gapminder/. It's good to see an organization truly pushing the capability of Flash (and Google for that matter). It's some of the most advanced work I've ever seen, presented in a simple, easy-to-use fashion. Go to the following page to download charts and tools from Gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/index.html.