Category: Community
Creating places where people get together.
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It’s a wonderful life
When you write “This post has earned one meager response,” meager describes the quality of the response received when, I think, your intent is to describe quantity of responses received. Recast? Thomas Osborne
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Five Billionth Flickr photo
Flickr members upload more than 3,000 images every minute. Here is the five billionth.
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Announcing Lanyrd
No, it isn’t a Happy Cog project (it’s by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) but we couldn’t love Lanyrd, the social conference directory any more if we’d created it ourselves. Lanyrd uses Twitter to tell…
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The Big Web Show Episode 15: Social Media, Social Capital
Tara Hunt, social media entrepreneur, author of The Whuffie Factor, cofounder of Citizen Agency, and one of Fast Company’s “women in tech—nine thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology” is our guest on…
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Episode 13: Voices That Matter
Editor Michael Nolan walks writer Aarron Walter through the fine points. Photo: Ari Stiles. All our Big Web Show interviews are personal to me and feature people who make a difference in our community, but…
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Improving Comments
In 2008, Derek Powazek, who knows more about community on the web than just about anyone, shared 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments. It was a great read then, and still is, distilling of 15…
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Girls ‘n Boys
The crowd at An Event Apart Boston 2010. Attendees, add yourself to this picture.
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Twitter Top 140
“Here it is, our next Web Trend Map. No Metro lines, no URLS. This time, it’s the 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting…
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A Feed Apart 2.0
As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…
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Boston Bound
Morning finds me bound by train for Boston, capital of Massachusetts, land of Puritans, patriots, and host of the original Tea Party. Center of high technology and higher education. Where the John Hancock Tower signs…
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TypeFaces
TypeFaces web designer playing cards are the shiz! I want!
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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…
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Filth & Glory. NYC in the 70s.
Transit Authority K-9 Police use German Shepherds on the subway to deter crime. ~ image copyright © Allan Tannenbaum The body of Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, is carried from the…
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A Feed Apart preview
Ali Ali describes the design process behind the forthcoming revision to A Feed Apart, the official Twitter aggregator for An Event Apart. Read about it now, experience it very, very soon.
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More Mod on the Digital Book
A Reading Heatmap: Key passages illuminated by layering all readers’ highlights for the same text. LAST MONTH, he wowed us with Books in the Age of the iPad, a call to make digital books as…