The Daily Report
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The Twitters of Southby
20110312-NodeXL-Twitter-sxsw by Marc Smith. From: www.connectedaction.net. Connections among the Twitter users who recently mentioned sxsw when queried on March 12, 2011 scaled by numbers of followers. A larger version (zoom for details) is available here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/5521097041/sizes/o/.
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Après Thursday, le déluge – or, recapturing the intimacy of SXSW
SXSW INTERACTIVE is an amazing festival, conference, and annual gathering of the tribes—a place to see, be seen, and find out not only what’s happening on the web, but what will happen in the coming…
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Ava’s Story
Here is a story my daughter wrote in school today. I’ve corrected the charming first-grade spelling. I was going to school with my Dad. I did morning meeting lunch recess and I went to Miss…
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A List Apart No. 325
In Issue No. 325 of A List Apart for people who make websites, we present an excerpt from The Elements of Content Strategy and a primer on how to keep your layouts afloat. A Checklist…
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A Book Apart No. 3: The Elements of Content Strategy, by Erin Kissane
BACK IN THE WEB’S Pleistocene period, I received an e-mail from a young content strategist. “Excuse me,” she wrote, “but there is a grammatical error in the current issue of A List Apart.” While I…
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Migrating from a conventional Facebook account to a public figure (“fan”) page – a report from the trenches
BECAUSE FACEBOOK LIMITS USERS to 5,000 contacts, I had to migrate from a conventional user account to what used to be called a “fan” page and is now called an “Artist, Band or Public Figure”…
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Frank Rich and the price of paywalls for writers
“INCREASINGLY, the motivations of writers and the motivations of the businesses they work for are at odds with each other. Journalists, enabled by the web, are increasingly defining success according to exposure, and news organizations…
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Like and Friend are broken in Facebook.
I CANNOT LIKE Happy Cog’s new Facebook page, due to Facebook’s unexplained and arbitrary limitation on how many things a user is allowed to Like. In Facebook’s world, it seems I Like too many things,…
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Episode 40: Andy Rutledge
ANDY RUTLEDGE (personal site, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 40, recording today, March 3, before a live internet audience at 5by5.tv/live. Andy is a designer, composer, author, speaker, bonsai artist,…
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Sippey on Digital Archiving
Future generations of digital product people would benefit from this approach to digital archiving; to understand the decisions we made, the tradeoffs we had to live with, and the context in which we operated. It’s…
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Five Milestone Font Families
Departures: Five Milestone Font Families by Emigre
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FTC to investigate iTunes in-app purchases
I’m looking at you, Smurfs. Parental complaints over iTunes App Store in-app purchases in children’s games such as “Smurfs’ Village” have prompted the Federal Trade Commission to look into the matter, according to a new…
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New Sources of Social Awkwardness
MY 6-year-old connected her iPad Smurfs game to my Facebook account, and now she’s sending “I Smurf You” cards to my Facebook contacts.
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A Very Short Story
MY DAUGHTER sat laughing in the dark, her face and hands covered in blood. Just a nosebleed but it aged me 10 years.
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Sinatra Prototyping, Web App Encryption: A List Apart No. 324
In Issue No. 324 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Web Cryptography: Salted Hash and Other Tasty Dishes by LYLE MULLICAN One of the most powerful security tools available to web developers…