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Why I am letting my Google IO invitation expire
HI, [REDACTED]. Thanks for writing to express your concern about my failure to redeem my Google IO promo code. It’s kind of a funny story. I received a Google IO invitation (copied and pasted below)…
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Web Type Will Save Us (Or, Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Retina Display?)
WITH RETINA DISPLAY technology on the verge of ubiquity and some of today’s best web design minds rightfully fretting about it (see PPK, Stephanie Rieger, Brad Frost, and Stuntbox if you’ve missed this latest Topic…
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Post-Induction Party Pix by Annie Ray | SXSWi 2012
I THREW A PARTY on the last night of SXSW Interactive 2012 to celebrate my induction in the Hall of Fame. Photos © Annie Ray, annieray.net. The entire photo gallery is available for your viewing…
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Jeffrey Zeldman Inaugural Hall of Fame Testimonial Video (4:00)
Jeffrey Zeldman tribute video – on his induction into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo. VIDEO: SOME MEMBERS of the web design and development community share thoughts about yours truly…
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Behind The Music: The Jeffrey Zeldman Dolls
Jeffrey was looking for us to do a more tailored, short run of the doll we had initially designed of him-215 to be exact. They were to be given away as gifts at the Hall…
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The Impossible Year | Jeffrey Zeldman with Mini-Zeldman Doll Polaroid…
JOHN MORRISON: Jeffrey Zeldman with Mini-Zeldman Doll Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Shade Jeffrey became the first person inducted into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame. Afterwards there was a party with mini-Zeldman…
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Massively Mobile Progressive Enhancement | Is Your Site Future-Friendly? | Brad Frost & Stephanie Rieger in A List Apart
ISSUE NO. 346 of A List Apart for people who make websites is all about massively mobile progressive enhancement. Are your site’s content and design future friendly? For a Future-Friendly Web by BRAD FROST It…
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Today at 5PM | Go Forth & Make Awesomeness: Core Values & Action | SXSW Interactive 2012
LESLIE JENSEN-INMAN (@jenseninman), Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee, created this panel and graciously invited me to be her guest. An alternate name for the panel could be Quit Bitching and Go Make Cool Shit.…
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Big Web Show No. 66 | David Sleight on publishing, devices, and the web
IN BIG WEB SHOW Episode No. 66, Jeffrey Zeldman interviews veteran web designer and publishing creative director David Sleight about how traditional publishers can transition to creating successful digital experiences, and the (mostly conceptual) obstacles…
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Big Web Show No. 65 | Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type
IN EPISODE NO. 65 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real…
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Web type links from an interview with Typekit and Nice Web Type’s Tim Brown
MY BIG WEB SHOW INTERVIEW with Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type will be posted tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some of the links our rapid-fire idea exchanged touched upon: FacitWeb on Typekit: https://typekit.com/fonts/facitweb…
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Replacing the -9999px hack (new image replacement)
IN THE BEGINNING was FIR, AKA Fahrner Image Replacement (note that one of the following links returns a 404): The Daily Report’s 2003 redesign uses (and our book explained) an image replacement technique intended to…
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A List Apart No. 345: Responsive content: thinking beyond pages; from research to content strategy to meaningful project deliverables.
IN ISSUE NO. 345 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Future-Ready Content by SARA WACHTER-BOETTCHER The future is flexible, and we’re bending with it. From responsive web design to futurefriend.ly thinking, we’re…
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The Big Web Show #64: Jenn Lukas – You Code, Girl!
IN EPISODE No. 64 of The Big Web Show, I interview front-end developer Jenn Lukas about how to tell if you’re a designer or coder; in-house versus product development versus consulting; Girl Develop It, a…
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Big Web Show Podcast #63: Michael Surtees and me on Interaction Design, Apps, and Blogging
I INTERVIEW Michael Surtees, founding partner and creative director at Gesture Theory, co-creator of Deckpub (“the future of publishing on iPad”), and author of Design notes in Episode No. 63 of The Big Web Show,…