Thanks to all who came to last night’s book launch party. Check out the pictures!

Want to go to Sydney at the end of this month? The Information Architecture Institute is offering a complimentary full-conference registration to attend the OZ-IA conference (where Adaptive Path’s Dan Saffer is presenting) as their ambassador. Write and state your interest. This is a limited offer, so please contact them by September 15th.

A conversation about information visualization on the IDEA conference blog.

Do do do do do believe the hype? Gartner’s 2006 Hype Cycle is out. Man is this hard to read.

Why You Tube Works.

David Armano gives Four Ways to become a More Compassionate Designer.

We’re a little tired of the wow ourselves…

Scrivs nails it once again: “Web 2.0 is only great for people who create it…We haven’t created a better place than the one that existed 10 years ago, but we have created a more feature rich place.”

Congratulations to Rojo on your next step!

Dan helps developers know everything they want to know about designers.

Wikipedia’s top 100 articles. Guess what? Porn, pro wrestling, current events, more porn, anime, video games, and porn.

Office 2.0 Conference looks interesting.

World of Warcraft takes over the globe.

A bunch of us will be attending The Future of Web Apps.

John Thackara on service design.

Do consumers really want music on their phones? A recent survey by Entertainment Media Research found, “that just 11 per cent of consumers were already paying for music downloads on their mobile: only half the level that expressed interest in downloading in a similar survey a year ago.”