I tend to have nightmarish flashbacks when I start designing an HTML e-mail. I get what you could call the CSS cold sweats.

Internet browsers’ support of standards is progressing and we’re headed in the right direction. The same now needs to happen for e-mail clients.

That’s why I’m voicing my (and encouraging your) support of the E-mail Standards Project, spearheaded by the awesome guys at Freshview.

They’ve got a great explanation of why this is important. Please do what you can to support the movement.

According to the New York Times, the AP is going all 2.0 on your backsides. It is a little ironic though that the AP’s multimedia wire service ASAP closed up shop on October 31.

But then again, maybe it isn’t ironic. Maybe they learned from their mistakes and are ready to make another go at it. One can only hope. I am a fan of non-profit news organizations so I hope they find a model that works. A good start might be revamping their 1.0 Web site that is still built with (oh the horror) tables.

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