I just read an interesting article on the Advertising Age website. The author, Phil Johnson, talks about the trend toward agencies wanting to incorporate more interactive capabilities and provides some insights from his own efforts.

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Seems like web standards and accessibility are continuing to attract attention. Here are a few recent articles I’ve stumbled upon relating to web standards.

Accessibility matters to… — a good overview of who benefits from standards

Web Standards: it’s about quality, not compliance — a passionate, if not somewhat overboard, post about what web standards really means

Web Standards Project Street Team — announcement about a new grassroots program from WaSP

In the course of doing business the last few weeks at Agency Fusion I’ve had quite a few conversations where I’ve ended up explaining how domain names, hosting, and nameservers work and interrelate. Seems like a good sign that a clear, easy-to-understand explanation is in order.

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Admit it. You’ve used a buzzword in a conversation without really knowing what it means. Or someone else used one and you just played along as if you knew exactly what they were talking about. It’s tough to keep up with all of the new techie-buzzwords.

For those of you with buzzword anxiety, here’s a plain-English explanation of the ten buzzwords that you’re most likely to hear in your next website project discussion.

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