Jason Pearce

There was a time when I used to eagerly anticipate Fridays.

Not because Fridays marked the end of the workweek, but because A List Apart would release a new online article about web design, standards, accessibly, or server-side scripting.

These days, however, it appears ALA has lost its voice.

Its most recent article was published in May 2005 and marked its 200th Issue. We haven’t heard from the site since.

Perhaps Zeldman and crew are too busy working on other projects, or perhaps the need for a community-authored publication has dwindled.

I hope not.

Though I think its great that more and more people are sharing their creations and knowledge via the web; we need more sites like A List Apart to aggregate and feature the best content and ideas.

I once had the good fortune of having an article of mine published on A List Apart. Inspired by what I had learned from others, I felt compelled to come up with an original idea or solution that I could share as a token of appreciation.

Sadly, ALA’s Contribute page is closed for business, reading “A List Apart is not accepting new articles at this time. Watch this space.”

ALA, we’re watching. We need the inspiration you delivered us for 200 issues. Though I frequently visit the personal sites of many of your authors, your ability to aggregate and share their best ideas made my Friday.

I hope you come up with something to say, for I’d love to hear from you again.

I recently discovered a new travel guide site called World66. They have a neat tool that automatically draws a map of places you’ve visited. Here are few examples:

Visited Countries

Visited States

Visited Canadian Provinces

Visited European Countries

Seeing that I am now a Windows Media Center user, I’ll likely become a fequent visitor of The Green Button, a site that offers tips and hacks.

I’ve long had a goal to visit as many countries as I am old, and to keep current. To help guide me in selecting my next destination, I organized a list of popular places to visit according to credible sources.

Well, I think I found another useful source to consider: The World Heritage List.

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed 754 properties (582 cultural, 149 natural and 23 mixed properties in 128 States Parties) on its list. The List, arranged alphabetically by nominating State Party, is current as of 3 July 2003.

I don’t know how or when I’ll incorporate their suggestions into my Places to Visit list, but I wanted to save a link here on my site for future reference.

Looks like my brother Cameron redesigned his personal website. I think his new site had many improvements over his old one. Nice work bro.