The Daily Report
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Sound Taste
I ADORE MUSIC, especially rock, electronic, indie, hip-hop, and jazz, including: MF DOOM, Beck, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, DJ Vadim, The Rolling Stones, Arcade Fire, John Lurie, Beirut, of Montreal, Eels,…
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Episode 27: Andy Clarke – It’s Hardboiled
ANDY CLARKE JOINS Dan Benjamin and me to talk about his new book Hardboiled Web Design, how to handle clients, and a fresh way to design with HTML5 and CSS3 in Episode 27 of The…
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Support the families of the fallen, if Facebook lets you.
ONSTAR WILL DONATE up to $250,000 to the families of police officers killed in the line of duty. For every person who fans OnStar, they will donate a dollar to the families. This is a…
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Managing Facebook Like. Or not.
I’M ON FACEBOOK. I want to see everything I supposedly “like” and prune the list of things I don’t. There should be a page where I can do this—that’s UX Design 101—but instead there’s just…
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Xiaoxi (Nancy) Zhang, illustrator
Xiaoxi (Nancy) Zhan
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A message from P Diddy
Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” – J.Zeldman LTTP 12.14.10 twitter.com/#!/iamdiddy/status/1835882504003584
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Wikipedia sucks on web design.
“WEB DESIGN” NEEDS HELP. Authoritative though it may be on countless other topics, when it comes to web design, Wikipedia sucks. In short, Wikipedia’s entry on “Web Design” needs your help. You know what to…
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Gary Vaynerchuk on The Big Web Show Episode 26
GARY VAYNERCHUK is our guest on Episode #26 of The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at 1:00 PM ET Thursday 4 November at live.5by5.tv. Gary is the creator of Wine Library…
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Away From My Desk
I am in glorious California where it bends down to kiss Tijuana, about to begin Day II of An Event Apart San Diego, the fifth and final sold-out AEA conference event of 2010. If you…
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Happy Cog wins Best in Class
Happy Cog has won a “Best In Class” Interactive Media Award for the official Philadelphia tourism site, visitphilly.com in the travel/tourism category. According to the IMA: The Best in Class award is the highest honor…
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Weirdest Type Design Ever?
Movie poster captured by Heather Shaw. There are several variations, all equally baffling. I’m hoping there’s a concept behind it—that it’s bad design to make a point.
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BBEdit Revised, Reviewed.
I RECENTLY ATE dinner with a friend I hadn’t seen in 20 years. If you are in a position to do likewise, I highly recommend the experience. So much had changed, yet so much was…
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Making the web more awesome: Karen McGrane on the big web show this week
Karen McGrane, designer of The New York Times website and managing parter at Bond Art + Science is our guest on Episode #25 of The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at…
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“Similar to You”
IN THE TRADITION of “People who bought ‘Assmasters’ also bought ‘Assmasters II,’” Twitter has chosen four of my Twitter friends and is presenting them to me as being “Similar to You.” Pray what does this…