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I call this week’s community blogging exercise, “The Best of StumbleUpon.” I have picked some of the most interesting blog posts that I have run across on StumbleUpon to highlight. The nice thing about Stumbling is that if you set your preferences judiciously you are almost certain to come across something you’ll find interesting.

Without further ado…

Mind Control?

Snap2Objects

85+ Free Killer Resources Every Designer Should Know.

What makes a web-designer a great web-designer? Guts and information - and bit of talent. All designers have to defeat the same monsters.

* Inspiration blocks;
* Lack of material, like and unvectorized logo;
* Poor quality images or their non-existence;
* Low or no budget;
* Unhelpful clients;

Neatorama

The Origin Of Everyday Punctuation Marks.

Question Mark

Origin: When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio - meaning “question” - at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem - readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercased q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our current question mark.

Problogger

How To Market Your Blog In 2007.

It breaks my heart to see blogs with great content languish in utter anonymity, devoid of comments, saddled with a seven-figure alexa traffic ranking, and rotting in pagerank purgatory.

{softwaredeveloper}

Ghosts in the Machine.

here are literally over 8,500 programming languages in existence, yet despite all these options, the vast majority of us all use the same dozen or so. Whether it’s infighting among language creators, bad marketing, new technologies or just being a crummy language, there are almost as many reasons why coding languages didn’t become popular as there are programming languages.

Web 2.0 Roundup

There is plenty more out there to see, what blogs are you reading? Drop me a link to you favorite post.

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