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A short follow-up to the To Do list article.
Cooper (an interaction design firm) has some interesting ideas on email in-boxes.

Word is the standard word processor. The Office 2007 ribbon makes it even easier. Check out the ribbon story.

Is there a better way to create your documents? Maybe…or maybe just a different way.
Check out LaTeX and Lyx, two interesting alternative (and free) word processors that let you build your documents the way you build your webpages: separating logical structure from formatting.

There’s a new browser out called Blackbird. It’s very similar to Firefox with some additions, such as search results will tend to come more from Black American sources and it includes built-in social networking features.

There’s been some controversy. Some people claim it’s racist.
I don’t agree, I see it as an interesting way of connecting people to African American culture. I don’t know if it does that effectively or not.
However, anyone is free to download it and use it, so I doesn’t seem discriminatory.
There are already other social networking browsers out there. Blackbird connects a group sharing a culture together.

Could we have a Whitebird browser? There’s not really a white subculture. I could see a DixieBird though.

The developers were smart in making it a stand alone browser instead of just a Firefox plug-in or a website.
It’s more buzz worthy. It’s a more powerful vehicle for spreading the message. Could it have been done with a website? Absolutely. Those websites already exist, but I’ve never heard of them.

My favorite feature is the “Give Back” button, which takes you to a site where you can discover volunteer opportunies for many different causes.