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A List Apart’s two most recent articles, issue 257, includes Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails by Michael Slater and Getting Started with Ruby on Rails by Dan Benjamin.

Paul Rand on the Politics of Design and the forces which weigh against good designers in organisations.

Michael Arrington looks at the new Yahoo!: sticky, viral, and most of all friendly.

Imran Ali is discussing data portability in his article on Web Worker Daily - Data Portability and the File System - and the importance of users having ownership over content. It links to Flickfs, an application that allows Linux users to mount their Flickr account as a virtual file system. This gives them the ability to drag and drop between their desktop and their Flickr account.

Erick Schonfeld asks if Keyword Search is about to Hit its Breaking Point? Nova Spivak, the CEO and founder of Radar Networks discussed this in his presentation to the Next Web Conference this month where he went on to explain the importance of smart data and dumb software in the creation of a Semantic Web.

Smashing Magazine have a number of free credit card icons you can use in your web design.

Molly Holzschlag has written an article on CIO titled 10 Tips to Finding Great Web Design and Development Services that is a must read for any manager looking to get a web site designed or developed.

Paul Smith on A List Apart has an inspiring article called Take Control of your Maps where he describes what it takes to make a mapping application adn shows you how to be more creative with it.