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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Gosh knows how they reproduce in newspaper or how effectively they can be translated into favicons, but there’s no denying that there are some lovely works in Wsblogz.com’s gallery of color logos....
“Links and Anchors,” the very first document published on the web, is almost valid HTML5. Hat tip: Jeremy Keith. P.S. Got yours yet?...
The Big Web Show Episode 15: Social Media, Social Capital
Tara Hunt, social media entrepreneur, author of The Whuffie Factor, cofounder of Citizen Agency, and one of Fast Company’s “women in tech—nine thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology” is our guest on today’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted as always by Dan Benjamin, and taped...
A List Apart 311: Say No to Clients and Kick Ass
Something remarkable awaits you in Issue No. 311 of A List Apart for people who make websites. Two wonderfully readable articles tackle the thorny subject of client relationships, providing practices, insights, and tips which, when taken to heart, will help designers, UXers, and (frankly) clients do their jobs better: One...
Yesterday, in response to something Tantek Çelik said here, Jeff Croft wrote a thoughtfully provocative piece arguing that informed web designers should encourage—or at least not worry about—the widespread misuse of the term “HTML5″ as a buzzword covering everything from CSS3 and web fonts to excitement about the new Webkit-powered...
How well does your browser support HTML5? Find out by visiting html5test.com, created by Niels Leenheer with thanks to Henri Sivonen and his HTML5 parser tests. Hat tip: Ralph Resnik....
Daring Fireball
★ Papermaster and That Damn Antenna
A few more points on Mark Papermaster's ouster from Apple and, yes, Antennagate....
Questions and Answers on the JailbreakMe Vulnerability
Comprehensive overview from F-Secure of the security implications of JailbreakMe’s new iOS exploit. ★ ...
Regarding Mac Market Share Among College Students
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, quoting survey results from Student Monitor: Among those who planned to purchase a new computer, 87% planned to buy a laptop. And among those students 47% planned to buy a Mac. Among student laptop owners, Apple has the highest share, at 27 percent. These numbers are short...
Mark Papermaster Leaves Apple; Responsible for iPhone 4 Antenna
Miguel Helft, reporting for the NYT: Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of hardware for the company’s flagship iPhone, has left the company in the wake of widely reported problems with the antenna of the recently introduced iPhone 4. It is not clear if Mr....
Masato Akamatsu, center fielder of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, climbs the wall to catch a would-be home run. ★ ...
Karl Bode on Google and Net Neutrality
Karl Bode, writing at DSL Reports: While this tactic of pre-empting real consumer protections with lobbyist-written fluff is Verizon’s usual modus operandi, it’s an interesting shift for Google (at least in terms of neutrality). It’s clear the search giant is now willing to shelve their...
Jeffrey Veen
This is a 20-minute talk I gave at the Web2.0 Expo in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. In it, I describe two trends: how we're shifting as a culture from consumers to participants, and how technology has enabled massive amounts of data to be recorded, stored, and analyzed. Putting...
Announcing Wikirank: Tracking what's popular on Wikipedia
A few months ago, the four of us in Small Batch Inc were kicking around ideas for what we should build next. We had just launched the Twitter Election site -- a fun real-time data visualization project -- and wanted to keep building things that help people make sense of...
Conference hack: Embracing the backchannel at Start
I had a very interesting experience a few months ago while participating in a panel discussion. Once again, I realized that the content on stage is merely the spark of a broader conversation, and that the backchannel is rapidly becoming the whole point. So we've decided to try an experiment...
This was a project I started a couple years back that I lost between moving, packing and unpacking. I found it a few days ago and finished stitching it over the weekend. It was inspired by my favorite t-shirt back then. I like cross stitching for it's obvious connection to pixelated...
Last month, while attending the fantastic @Media conference in London, we paid a quick touristy visit to a street corner in the heart of Soho. There, we found a small monument - an old hand-drawn water pump on a stone pedestal, its handle notably missing. We climbed up on it,...
Stories we'll hear at the Start Conference
One of the nice things about organizing your own conference is getting to choose who you want on stage. That's been particularly fun these last couple weeks as Bryan and I have been thinking about who we'd like to talk to and what we'd like them to tell us. We started...
SimpleBits
Dunk - The Dribbble feed viewer
Dunk - The Dribbble feed viewer: I’ll do my best not to make this website a repeat of Dribbble news, but… makers of one of my favorite apps for the iPhone (Outside) have just launched the first Dribbble iOS app. Dunk is a beautifully-designed feed viewer for Dribbble shots, tags...
Penultimate: Giving this sketchbook app a spin on the iPad. Hoping it helps me use it more. I’m finding that having an iPhone and a Macbook Pro has me pretty well covered. Waiting for a breakthrough moment with the iPad that goes beyond having yet another device to check email,...
A wonderful book of music prints and posters by The Small Stakes...
A wonderful book of music prints and posters by The Small Stakes (aka Jason Munn)....
“Dream big, implement small.” - twitter.com/simplebits...
CSS3 Generator: Handy tool that spits out the syntax and associated vendor-prefixed CSS3 for properties like border-radius, box-shadow, multi-column layout and more. Especially helpful are the supported browsers icons with pop-up version numbers for each property....
“Web design is not merely building. It’s not just designing. It’s not only the rest of the myriad disciplines and titles we all align ourselves with, but the culmination of all these things.” - Jason Santa Maria, A Real Web Design Application...
Signal vs. Noise
A few of this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter. dhh: Just saw an old piece of ascii art for my old mid-90’s Amiga BBC Electronic Confusion: http://yfrog.com/hqjz6p – those were the days sstephenson: Apple’s battery charger is diminutive next to the competition: http://twitpic.com/2blt5x sh: People in my personal life...
INSIGHT: The average American watches four hours of…
The average American watches four hours of television each day. That’s 28 hours per week. Which is almost like having another full-time job. No wonder it’s so tough for people to get things done. ...
Big Think interview with David
Big Think Interview With David Heinemeier Hansson: Some of the questions asked: What inspired you to create Rails? Ruby on Rails lowers the technical expertise necessary to create a web application; is expertise becoming less critical? How simple can things get in terms of programming? Do you think any company can dominate the Web...
We’re excited to welcome Jason Rehmus to the support team at 37signals! Jason (“JR”) joins Sarah, Michael and Kiran to make sure potential customers, current customers and loyal customers are happier every time they talk to us. Adding a fourth person to support, gives us the breathing room that’s going to...
It is only a matter of time before we have a periodic table of periodic tables. The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense. The Periodic Table of Mad Men. The Periodic Table of Swearing. Also, the Periodic Table of Awesoments. [via JK] Update: There already is a table of tables! [thx DG]. Internet, I was foolish...
The Big Think interview, take two
Earlier this year I was invited to New York for an interview with Big Think. Big Think interviews opinionated people from the world of business, politics, religion, charity, academia, science, etc. We talked for close to an hour, but it was a 6-minute segment on why you can’t work at work...
Customized Marketing
This site has many downloadable pdfs, and the addition of many video categories....
An update after a few months of MacBook Air use. Is it still love at first sight?...
Sad, but true - I finally succumbed to the iPad. This is not your normal iPad lovefest....
Purchasing my iPad involved good and bad customer service at my "happy place"....
Inside tips and advice for BlogWorld October 14-16, 2010 in Vegas....
RedShoeWay, a many faceted blog, brings you wit, wisdom and whimsey!...
A List Apart
No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas
You can't create what clients need when you're too busy saying yes to everything they want. As a user experience designer, it's your job to say no to bad ideas and pointless practices. But getting to no is never easy. Proven techniques that can turn vocal negatives into positive experiences...
Too many kickoff meetings squander the busiest, most expensive people's time reiterating what everyone already knows. If every meeting is an opportunity, why waste your first one? By asking stakeholders tough questions before the kick-off, and using the meeting itself to explore ideas and build relationships, you can turn a...
JavaScript Minification Part II
Variable naming can be a source of coding angst for humans trying to understand code. Once you’re sure that a human doesn’t need to interpret your JavaScript code, variables simply become generic placeholders for values. Nicholas C. Zakas shows us how to further minify JavaScript by replacing local variable names...
SVG with a little help from Raphaël
Want to make fancy, interactive, scalable vector graphics (SVGs) that look beautiful at any resolution and degrade with grace? Brian Suda urges you to consider Raphaël for your SVG heavy lifting....
Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius and -webkit-animation may challenge our consciences, along with our patience. But while nobody particularly enjoys writing the same thing four or five times in a row,...
Supersize that Background, Please!
Background images that fill the screen thrill marketers but waste bandwidth in devices with small viewports, and suffer from cropping and alignment problems in high-res and widescreen monitors. Instead of using a single fixed background size, a better solution would be to scale the image to make it fit different...
kottke.org
Updates on previous entries for Aug 8, 2010*
My science orig. from Aug 02, 2010 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here. Tags: post updates...
I like cover songs. It's interesting to hear another take on a favorite song. The ones I especially like are covers by bands in a completely different style. A good cover song will add to your enjoyment of the originally, and sometimes let you hear things you didn't hear before....
I don't know what is being represented in either of these posts from but does it float, but they're both capital G Gorgeous. The images from 'The most interesting trend in the development of the Internet is not how it is changing people's ways of thinking but how it is adapting...
Jamon Iberico, the so-called "best ham in the world", is made from a breed of pig that has been raised in Spain for 10,000 years. Fear of disease made it unavailable in the US until 2006, when one Spanish importer was finally approved. (An American company, La Quercia in Iowa,...
Creative creative writing prompt
I guess this went around last year, but somehow, I completely missed it. I'm visiting with two English professors this weekend, and apparently this video caused something of a stir in the department. "If you knocked your brother down, would you urinate in his mouth?" is an age-old question, used...
The Guardian has the famous last words of 10 authors. As I am fundamentally opposed to lists in slide show format, especially lists with one list item per slide, the quotations are below. Click through to see the pictures. The chance all of these last words are 100% accurate is...
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