Category: Community
Creating places where people get together.
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Webvanta Video: Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design
From the floor of An Event Apart Seattle 2011: “Mobile is huge. The iPhone, iPad, and Android are huge. On the one hand, they are standards-facing, because they all support HTML5 and CSS3, so you…
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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…
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The Twitters of Southby
20110312-NodeXL-Twitter-sxsw by Marc Smith. From: www.connectedaction.net. Connections among the Twitter users who recently mentioned sxsw when queried on March 12, 2011 scaled by numbers of followers. A larger version (zoom for details) is available here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/5521097041/sizes/o/.
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Episode 39: Crowd Fusion’s Brian Alvey live on The Big Web Show
BRIAN ALVEY (home, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 39, recording live Thursday, February 16, at 12:00 PM Eastern at 5by5.tv/live. Brian is CEO of Crowd Fusion, a publishing platform that…
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Teaching at School of Visual Arts
I teach a class called “Selling Design” in the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts in New York. Although the class’s name focuses on persuasion, it’s really about learning where great ideas…
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My Backpack
…AND WHAT’S INSIDE. A work- and workout backpack by Jeffrey Zeldman at Bagcheck. Bagcheck is a fun and easy way to share the stuff you love with the people you love.
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Episode 35: Jen Simmons on Drupal, experience design, and how designing websites has changed since 1996.
JEN SIMMONS is our guest today, January 20, 2011, in Episode No. 35 of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin. Tune in to 5by5.tv/live at 12:00 PM Eastern (new time!) to be part…
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Own Your Data
Captured from Twitter, here is Tom Henrich’s partial reconstruction of my conversation with Tantek Çelik, Glenda Bautista, Andy Rutledge and others on the merits of self-hosting social content and publishing to various sites rather than…
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Music is the best.
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Layer Tennis Championship Today.
Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for the game of all games, a design denouement one incredible year in the making, the ultimate test of two unlikely heroes with even less likely names. Noper vs. Reyes. Layer…
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An Event Apart Gives Thanks
To thank you and the universe for five brilliant, sold-out shows in 2010, we’ve partnered with Network for Good to donate $5,000 to Computers for Youth (CFY), a non-profit foundation that brings computing and educational…
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Top Web Books of 2010
“It’s been a great year for web design books; the best we can remember for a while, in fact!” So begins Goburo’s review of the Top Web Books of 2010. The list is extremely selective,…
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Anatomy of the Goodreads.com Friend Spam Dark Pattern
“Goodreads.com is social cataloging service for books. In this post you will see how they’ve used the friend spam dark pattern, but how they’ve also failed to make it go viral. This makes it interesting…
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Awesome web apps in 10k or less
The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…
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Cognition: Behind the Music
Happy Cog president Greg Storey describes the thinking behind our latest little experiment in online publishing and community: Last week we launched Cognition, a studio blog, that replaced the traditional open-mic text area commenting system…