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Super Icon Pack – Update

Posted by Joshua On December - 4 - 2009

floppyFor those of you that have asked about the Super Icon Pack, I just found out what the problem was and have now fixed the issue. You can download the “Super Icon Pack” from the link below and I have updated the original post to reflect the new link as well. Sorry about that.  :)

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Super Icon Pack – 1494 Icons

Posted by Joshua On May - 31 - 2009

floppyHi everyone. I have just completed the “Super Icon Pack” for your downloading and development pleasure.

I have scowered the internets for a while now collecting the best .png icons I could find. I use icons a lot in my site development and I always love having tons of them on hand. The only problem is, most of the packs I have found only have 10-15 icons in them and 2 or 3 that are useable.

I have gone through hundreds of packs and deleted all of the crap, only to be left with the best icons I could find. They are organized by size and are all transparent .png files which makes life very easy. There are 1494 total icons in this super pack.

As a bonus I threw in all of my “Social” icons as well because I know how much we all love to be followed. Below are some examples of the icon styles.

Large Icons (186)
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Medium Icons (629)
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Mini Icons (505)
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Bonus Social Icons, All different sizes (174)
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Business and Social Media?

Posted by Joshua On May - 30 - 2009

transparency

It is 4:00 in the morning and I have already been up for an hour.

I barely slept last night and unfortunately that is nothing new. It is cold in my apartment this morning and my heater is just not able to warm my bones. So as I sit here huddled over my keyboard sipping coffee with desk lamp the only light on in my apartment, I have to some time to think. What I have found myself thinking a lot about lately is social media, “transparency” and business.

There is something that is not sitting right with me about this whole social media thing. How can business, which is by its very nature immoral, secretive, cold and untrustworthy, suddenly be participating in a space where the very foundation is transparency, community, openness and honesty? How can businesses that have screwed over their competitors, fired thousands of people, caused environmental harm, lied to their investors, employed slave labor and have generally had a negative impact on our society now be given the opportunity to trick us again in to thinking that they are all of a sudden “transparent” because they have a twitter account and a facebook page?

 What makes you think that the fundamentals of business have changed because it’s now online and suddenly been labeled “transparent”?