Category: Community

Creating places where people get together.

  • Stop chasing followers

    Stop chasing followers

    The internet is not a numbers game. It’s about dialog, persuasion, and influence. You don’t want a million people reading your HTML5 blog. You want members of the HTML5 working groups and key influencers from…

  • Layer Tennis Around the World

    Layer Tennis Around the World

    Around the world in ten layers with Coudal Partners: Ten designers in ten cities, fifteen minutes at a time. A single Photoshop file will circumnavigate the globe starting in Portland and ending in Tokyo with…

  • An Event Apart Seattle

    An Event Apart Seattle

  • +1

    +1

    I get just enough brain-dead, sub-literate, off-topic rants here that I’m considering removing comments altogether. Discuss. April Fools. Comments are now closed.

  • Love Me Long Time

    Love Me Long Time

    Those who say web users don’t spend time reading web pages haven’t met readers like you folks. According to Google Analytics, zeldman.com fans spent five minutes, fifty-five seconds reading the relatively short post, “My Love/Hate…

  • Crowdsourcing Dickens

    Crowdsourcing Dickens

    As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens’s musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict…

  • Photos from SXSW

    Photos from SXSW

    SXSW 2010: A photo set on Flickr (in progress). The festival began this afternoon at 2:00 PM Central. Lots more photos will appear over the next few days.

  • Hear This!

    Hear This!

    Dan Benjamin, creator of wonderful websites, apps, broadcasts, and platforms and longtime friend of A List Apart and your host, introduces a new venture. 5 by 5 Studios is a new internet broadcasting network, home…

  • Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture

    Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture

    THE DEATHS of Leslie Harpold and Brad Graham, in addition to being tragic and horrible and sad, have highlighted the questionable long-term viability of blogs, personal sites, and web magazines as legitimate artistic and literary…

  • Cog’aoke is coming. Again.

    Cog’aoke is coming. Again.

    It’s the return of Cog’aoke. Video: Ian Corey.

  • A Feed Apart

    A Feed Apart

    Live from San Francisco, it’s An Event Apart, for people who make websites. If you can’t join us here today and tomorrow, enjoy the live feed, designed and coded by Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl.…

  • The Stars Look Down

    The Stars Look Down

    It wasn’t the first time and won’t be the last. Like an angry Hebrew God, he creates things and then, in fits of pique, destroys them. Sometimes, on the web, communities end because money runs…

  • 18,967’s a crowd

    18,967’s a crowd

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  • Blue Beanie Day 2009

    Blue Beanie Day 2009

    Bonne journée du chapeau bleu! Now you know how to say “Happy Blue Beanie Day” in French. Monday 30 November is International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards. Get your toque on, post…

  • Toque o’ the Morning

    Toque o’ the Morning

    Download the zipped photoshop file illustrated by Kevin Cornell, and dress your Facebook or Twitter avatar for Blue Beanie Day!