HTML onerror: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

A Fist Full of Solutions
While doing my front-end work I’m very keen on using simple markup techniques to solve problems before relying on the likes of Javascript. Don’t get me wrong, I gargle MooTools and jQuery every morning to keep my web breath fresh like most developers, but I find it endlessly attractive when an elegant solution can be flossed out using only pure HTML and CSS.
Finding a solution is never a problem, but choosing a solution is often a challenge. Selecting one technique among the wealth of available methods that strikes a balance between the simplicity and elegance of pure HTML and CSS, the flexibility and mysticality of Javascript, [...]

The year of the paywall: a mid-year checkup

In January, The Economist declared 2010 “The Year of the Paywall,” when newspapers would begin veiling all or much of their online content to those without a subscription. (Coincidentally, that link — which displays an article which was originally published in the Economist’s print edition — is behind a subscription paywall.)
Yesterday The Guardian reported that The Times, which moved to a full-scale paywall system last month, “lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June.” Though The Times is making new revenue from the folks who’ve opted to subscribe, that’s still a pretty hefty hit (or rather, loss of hits) for one [...]

Say hello to Sarah Joy, our new Social Media Marketing Manager

The sociomantic labs are happy to introduce our newest addition to the marketing team, Sarah Joy.

Sarah Joy originally hails from Cowtown, USA (perhaps better known by it’s proper alias, Fort Worth, Texas), where you might have found her digging for old records and books, sampling greasy-food diners in tiny rural towns across the state, collecting stories from strange characters she encountered, or talking on her front porch swing with her awesome brothers and sisters. She graduated with a degree in communication from Boston College in Massachusetts, where she studied journalism, digital media, and cyberlaw. She also studied humanistic informatics for a spell at the University of Bergen in Norway, when [...]