10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber Chris talks about ways to reduce the “Echo Chamber Effect”. Darren has a good writeup on this list and there is some buzz in the blogoshpere following Chris’ post. My sarcasm might be lost to everyone but I really do like his advice, especially “Say something original at least once a day”.

bLaugh Brad Fitzpatrick and Chris Pirillo come together to write an online comic that is on the money. I was introduced to it from a blog on online comics and I have become a regular almost instantly. Their dry tech humor is refreshing and their art work is pretty good. They also offer a little extra something in the form of a GoDaddy coupon to make the parodies a little more sweet. I will not disclose it here but will force you to visit the link if you want to get some money off your next GoDaddy purchase. 🙂

SixApart Vox So where is VOX? I remember a bunch of hoopla on the original Comet hosted blogging platform and remember thinking to myself that they are following the same path as WordPress.com with a small and private group of users with plans expanded to a larger audience while they learn the ropes of their new software. Most of the stuff looks like a web 2.0 rehash of most things cool put together with LiveJournal. Anyone use VOX? PS: I wonder if FeedBurner had to fix their “xx readers” script to accomodate TechCrunch’s cool 100k.

WP Plugin: WP-Galeria Is a simple files and folder based gallery plugin for WordPress that supports zip file upload, on the fly thumbnail creation and comes with a couple of premade templates derived from Kubrick and k2. I did not notice an example gallery.

Swift: Safari for Windows Still in alpha, but based on the Apple Webkit rendering engine and already a downloadable product. I could not get it to install on my XP laptop. EDIT: After reading this post on their forums, I was able to get I installed. Thanks Roger from 456 Berea Street.

Readability and High Contrast Designs Roger takes on the light text on dark background folks and opns up a can of worms. However, the reasoning is sounds and though the dislike and readability impairment might be limited, the bookmarklet and valuable discussion is worth the read. Do you like dark on light designs as much as light on dark?

WP Theme: Ebony Ebony is a 2 column, light on dark, fixed width theme and features a widget enabled sidebar and is fully prepared for localisation.

WP Theme: Bright Pixel is a single column smooth, monochrome, lightweight wordpress theme in shades of white.