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Just because enterprise clients could easily buy us along with everything we own almost instantly doesn’t mean that we should bow down to their every design decision. It’s easy to take direction into your own hands at the point where educating the client stops and compromise begins.

Forced onto the MySpace social network at work, I quickly find ways around the stock profile abilities and personalise the place for myself. In the process, I created a five-day workshop in doing it to your own profile.

As the Web leaves old media behind, CNN and The New York Times step up to the plate with similar redesigns. A breakdown of the trend ensues and we see what these design guidelines do to usability and design in the future of online journalism.

Sure, I wasted time, but in the process I created a hack for the Facebook that allows inline Stylesheet replacement using the HTML DOM and JavaScript via an XSS vector. What’s that mean for you? Go ahead. Bypass Facebook’s own style and make your profile page your own.

As the digital revolution displaces film, I find myself longing for the days of developer, stop bath, and fix. It’s an interesting retrospective moment for someone who’s usually a technological early-adopter, quick to abandon the old for the new.