The Daily Report
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Whitney Hess, Ethan Marcotte, and Jason Fried on The Big Web Show
Update! Episode 8, featuring Whitney Hess, is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. This Thursday 17 June at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me live on The Big Web…
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Episode 7: Jared Spool
Episode 7 of The Big Web Show is now online for your listening and viewing pleasure. In this most excellent episode, co-host Dan Benjamin and I talk with special guest Jared Spool about usability testing…
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iMac dies after Safari update
There is a new Safari update. After I installed it, my home iMac cannot reboot. For about an hour, the iMac was stuck in the grey Apple screen (sometimes with, and sometimes without, a progress…
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The Great Salami Caper
In the late 1980s, while making efforts to move to New York City, I came up with the winning ad campaign for Hebrew National Kosher Salami. Only I didn’t win. Hebrew National held a contest…
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Icon: For Love of Barbie
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It’s a process
After finishing her late-night snack, she left the empty bowl beside her in the bed “for Emile’s spirit to nibble on.”
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Web Standards Italian Style
Sviluppare Siti Con Gli Standard Web: Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition, Italian translation. Shop for it. Prefer English? Order from Amazon.com Order from Barnes & Noble Order the Kindle Edition
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Fink on Web Fonts
In Issue 307 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Web Fonts at the Crossing by Richard Fink Everything you wanted to know about web fonts but were afraid to ask. Richard Fink…
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Web Standards, 1452–2011
And I’m off on a mini road trip to Penn State and its annual web conference, where I’ll be honored to deliver the opening keynote on standards-based web design, from 1452 to the present. The…
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Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks
Above, page one of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as seen in Stanza, a free reader for iPad and iPhone. Stanza has a simple…
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Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks
Thanks, Mr Sippey!
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From Gmail with Love
It shouldn’t be this much work, but hats off to Nick Cernis for showing us the trick to enabling multiple “from” addresses under a single Gmail account in Mail on the iPad and iPhone.
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When Ads by Google Go Wrong
When Ads by Google Go Wrong
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Episode 6: Mobile First
Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. This Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me for the taping of The…
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Rise Above
M.I.A. Takes to the Streets: a slide show at NYTimes.com. Photos: Ryan McGinley for The New York Times.