The Daily Report
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Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates
Legendary art director Roger Black guests on tomorrow’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience. Roger co-founded the following new companies: Webtype, creators…
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HTML5 For Web Designers: The eBook
Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers is now available as an epub at books.alistapart.com. If you bought the paperback, watch your inbox for a special discount on the ebook. (To take advantage of this offer,…
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Announcing Lanyrd
No, it isn’t a Happy Cog project (it’s by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) but we couldn’t love Lanyrd, the social conference directory any more if we’d created it ourselves. Lanyrd uses Twitter to tell…
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HTML5 Pour Les Web Designers
Sacrebleu! The French edition of the ebook of Monsieur Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers is in the top five sellers in the iTunes Store Français. To answer your other questions: an eBook version in…
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Episode 17: Web Meritocracy
Bay area designer Tracy Osborn (@limedaring) is our guest on Thursday’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience. Tracy is the kind of…
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A most unfortunate company name
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Pick a Peck of Panels
Voting is underway for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, and members of Happy Cog have proposed eighteen panel ideas shown here. Follow the links to vote for your favorites, increasing the likelihood…
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Help content, iPad apps
In Issue No. 312 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Twitterific’s Craig Hockenberry compares web apps to iPhone apps,and tells iPhone app developers what they need to know to succeed, in Apps…
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iPad Fonts Petition
Dear Apple: It is a triumph of engineering and marketing and general cause for joy that Apple provides highly functional iPad versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers for a mere $9.99 apiece. Alas, the iPad…
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How to use TextMate
For nearly 13 years, I created websites with PageSpinner, a charmingly old-fashioned HTML coding environment from the days of Netscape 1.0. But two years ago, seeking updated web page encoding and other modern conveniences, I…
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Like a prayer
An essay in three tweets: Morality isn’t how you think, it’s what you do about your violent carnal greedy cowardly natural impulses. # Good religion attempts to explain our deep connection to others. Bad religion…
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Social Network Creep
If you’re intrigued, as I am, by the trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming The Social Network, and if part of what compels you about the trailer is the musical score—a choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep”—you’ll…
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We’re speechless
In What I learned at An Event Apart Minneapolis, Marc Drummond writes: A really good session, in my opinion, is not about the how, it’s about the why. … A really good session, through arguments…
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I guest-edit .net magazine
A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly.…
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HTML5, CSS3 default templates
Free for use in all web projects, professional or personal, HTML5 Reset by Monkey Do! is a set of HTML5 and CSS templates that jumpstart web development by removing the styling native to each browser,…