The Daily Report
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Pick a Panel
The SXSW panel picker launched today. SXSW Interactive is probably the world’s biggest web shebang, and the panel picker is how the festival begins winnowing out which panels, out of hundreds submitted, will actually be…
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Zing
The notion that usability is the easy part—something you just add on after doing the hard part of writing the code—is hardly limited to the open source community.
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The Survey for People Who Make Websites
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of…
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Lower East Side Lit
Monday, July 28, at 7:00 PM, in the company of my fellow field testers, I’ll be giving a reading at Coudal Partners’s Field Tested Books Live. Join us on the rooftop of the Delancey at…
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Protest the Orphan Works Bills
You think your design work gets stolen now? Wait ’til infringement becomes the law of the land. The Orphan Works Act defines an “orphan work” as any copyrighted work whose author any infringer says he…
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Underwear
One of my happiest memories is the day I quit my job. No longer was I a mere office shlub, meekly thanking life for the cold mashed potatoes it deigned to drop onto my plate.…
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Your US tax dollars at work
The Computing Community Consortium “supports the computing research community in creating compelling research visions and the mechanisms to realize these visions” and steals copyrighted design layouts from A List Apart magazine.
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Customer support on the march
You know that new thing where you call customer support and a robot tells you that there’s no need to wait; just leave your phone number and you’ll be called back in three minutes? So…
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Not at his desk
Have left town for a funeral. Will be gone a week. Updates may be sparse.
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Around the Word with Web Talent
My first book didn’t sell very well but it had an effect on people’s hearts. Web designers around the world circulated a single copy of Taking Your Talent to the Web, adding their autographs, drawings,…
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ALA No. 262: Binding & Subversion
In Issue No. 262 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Ryan Irelan invites us to collaborate and connect with Subversion, and Christophe Porteneuve explains how to get out of binding situations in…
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Lube Tube
Friedrolling: vt. Gratuitously posting Basecamp referral links disguised as tweets or blog posts.
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Office Koan No. 37
Speakeasy will only honor my request to discontinue DSL service in my old office if I call the company from my old phone number, which I no longer have access to because I moved out.
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Life Needs a Rewind Button
The new office is so new to me that I entered the address incorrectly while ordering CS3 suites for the studio. Amazon is consequently rush-delivering Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, and Fireworks to…