Category: Appearances

  • Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel at SXSW

    Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel at SXSW

    “WE KICKED OFF WITH a discussion on web platforms, perhaps the most widely-changing aspect of the web in the past 18 months. Zeldman began with a story about his efforts to check in to his…

  • You are all in publishing!

    You are all in publishing!

    ON SUNDAY, while leading a discussion on the future of web design and publishing, I noticed a slightly confused look appearing on some faces in the audience. The discussion had been billed as “Jeffrey Zeldman’s…

  • Questions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at SXSW Interactive

    Questions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at SXSW Interactive

    HEY, YOU WITH THE STARS in your eyes. Yes, you, the all too necessary SXSW Interactive attendee. Got questions about the present and future of web design and publishing for me or the illustrious panelists…

  • See me at the DIBI conference, UK

    See me at the DIBI conference, UK

    HEY, KIDS! GUESS WHO’s the keynote speaker at DIBI (pronounced “dibby”), the two-track Design It Build It web conference, June 7–8, 2011 at The Sage Gateshead venue in the Northeast of England? That’s right, it’s…

  • Awesome Internet Design

    Awesome Internet Design

    Attending the SXSW Interactive festival in 2011? Be sure to see Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel. He brought us The Web Standards Project, A List Apart, Designing With Web Standards, A Book Apart, and…

  • Of Thee I Sing

    Of Thee I Sing

    According to Lanyrd and this Amtrak ticket, I’m on my way to Washington, DC, home of the 9:30 Club, Embassy Row, museums and monuments, and the site of An Event Apart DC—three days of design,…

  • I guest-edit .net magazine

    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.…

  • Minneapolis Remembered

    Minneapolis Remembered

    The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a…

  • 37signals’ Jason Fried live today on The Big Web Show

    37signals’ Jason Fried live today on The Big Web Show

    I have known 37signals CEO Jason Fried since he was a young copywriter who reminded me of me, only smarter and more confident. Like many of you, with a mixture of awe and pleasure, I…

  • Web Standards, 1452–2011

    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…

  • AEA Minneapolis

    AEA Minneapolis

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days…

  • Best AEA yet

    Best AEA yet

    An Event Apart Seattle, our first three-day show, was our best yet. Not only was every speaker engaging and every topic relevant, but there was a thematic unity between presentations as leading-edge topics came to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Laying Pipe

    Laying Pipe

    Dan Benjamin and yours truly discuss the secret history of blogging, transitioning from freelance to agency, the story behind the web standards movement, the launch of A Book Apart and its first title, HTML5 For…