The Daily Report

  • Hate and Love

    Hate and Love

    Left, Mike Monteiro. Right, yours sincerely. Captured at SXSW by Scott Beale. (My SXSW photos. Scott’s SXSW photos.)

  • Ed Bott’s Lament

    Ed Bott’s Lament

    In “IE9: Microsoft’s new browser gets no respect at all,” ZDNet’s Ed Bott sees seething contempt where I intended even-handed calm, and asks why my discussion yesterday of the tone of a months-old IE announcement…

  • A SXSW Story

    A SXSW Story

    One of the things about SXSW Interactive is that you are constantly meeting new people. One day at breakfast, I was introduced to a friend of a friend, who said: “Your book is dangerous.” “That’s…

  • IE9 preview

    IE9 preview

    Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just the flames? In An Early Look At IE9 for Developers, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, reports on performance progress, web standards progress (border-radius,…

  • Photos from SXSW

    Photos from SXSW

    SXSW 2010: A photo set on Flickr (in progress). The festival began this afternoon at 2:00 PM Central. Lots more photos will appear over the next few days.

  • Book By Its Cover

    Book By Its Cover

    Book By Its Cover is a glorious new blog devoted to the beauty of books.

  • Popular Science Archives

    Popular Science Archives

    Popular Science has partnered with Google to offer its entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Posted via web from Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?

  • My SXSW

    My SXSW

    It’s that time again. Spring and pheromones are in the air, and 11,000 web geeks are about to descend on beauteous Austin, TX for our industry’s version of the TED Conference plus Spring Break, SXSW…

  • True Self

    True Self

    Happy Cog’aoke 2 / Lesson Four: ‘Over the Top’ from Happy Cog on Vimeo. See all the videos on OK! Happy Cog’aoke, and join us in Austin for the best party of SXSW.

  • Multiple Partners

    Multiple Partners

    Happy Cog’aoke 2 / Lesson Three: Multiple Partners from Happy Cog on Vimeo. See all the videos on OK! Happy Cog’aoke, and join us in Austin for the best party of SXSW.

  • E-books, Flash, and Standards

    E-books, Flash, and Standards

    In Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they…

  • Future of Online News

    Future of Online News

    Many website designers run their own niche blog, and if the content is unique enough, a designer might be able to sell subscriptions to it. The content has to be very high quality, though, and…

  • Zeldman on Publishing

    Zeldman on Publishing

    P Is for Publishing. And publishing, as you’ve heard, is dying. … But “the printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone,” Zeldman says, “either because books don’t require…

  • Van Damme, that’s good design

    Van Damme, that’s good design

    Web designer Tim Van Damme, founder of Made by Elephant and blogger at Max Voltar, has skyrocketed from relative oblivion to comparative fame in little over a year. Before you succumb to jealousy, consider the…

  • Digital books: the medium changes the message

    Digital books: the medium changes the message

    “Content with form—Definite Content—is almost totally the opposite of Formless Content. Most texts composed with images, charts, graphs or poetry fall under this umbrella. It may be reflowable, but depending on how it’s reflowed, inherent…