Category: business
Make them dance, make them dance.
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Housing Works launch
Sometimes we get to participate, in however small a way, in something much larger and more important than ourselves.
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In the bag
Early tomorrow, I leave for San Francisco. Headed into my laptop bag, along with my MacBook, are… An iPod Classic containing 8624 “songs” (I like music) and 46 “movies.” Sample titles: A Mighty Wind, A…
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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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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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What happened here
This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has…
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ALA 259: Career and Content
In Issue No. 259 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome by Pepi Ronalds Clients love to write copy. Well, they love to plan to write it, anyhow.…
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Stick out your tongue
While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…
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WordPress 2.5 unleashed
WordPress 2.5, designed by Happy Cog and built by Automattic, is now available for your downloading pleasure.
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WordPress 2.5 Preview
Yesterday, Matt Mullenweg opened the kimono on WordPress 2.5, built by Automattic and designed by Happy Cog: “For the past few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Happy Cog—Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria,…
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A List Apart 254: Design, Design
Issue No. 254 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about design.
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Monday links
Chopsticks by Segura. A greener LA via Boston. Stealing patterns, making models. Samurai errata and SXSW bowling.
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ALA 252: New library, long hallway
Keep your markup clean with DOM scripting and learn to play nice in the long hallway.
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Facebook and your privacy
Months after geeks who hate walled gardens hailed Facebook as the great exception, Facebook announces that it is wholesaling our privacy to any turdball with a dirty nickel to spend. So what else is new?
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Don’t sleep here
Barely noticed in the builders’ gold rush, the poorest poor, pushed off the benches of Madison Square Park, take shelter in the very construction sites that signify their doom. (Photo essay.)