Category: industry
This web business: culture and concepts.
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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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Give HTML e-mail a chance
Ten years into the web standards revolution, e-mail client support for standards remains sketchy. A new group is doing something about it. They need your support.
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Guestbook spam gambit of the week
I love the smell of guestbook spam in the morning.
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Blue Beanie Day
On Monday, November 26, 2007, don your blue beanie to show your support for web standards and accessibility.
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iPhone “disappearing photos” bug
With this bug, the iPhone camera does everything a camera should do, except take pictures. It seems to obliterate photographic data the moment you snap the shutter. If you take five photos, you get five…
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Facts and Opinions about Zeldman
Yesterday I spoke at BusinessWeek and was interviewed for a podcast that airs next week. Tomorrow I will speak for Carson at Future of Web Design. I will not be nicely dressed.
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Findings from the Web Design Survey
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals participated, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web…
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We live as we dream
My cold is in its second week; I slept less than four hours last night. Yesterday we decided to check out the housing market in our neighborhood and ended up making a bid. Tomorrow, if…
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To be of use to others is the only true happiness. Although a 160 GB iPhone would also be nice.
iPhone and iPod classic compared.
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Facebook Considered Harmless
I design interfaces so I’m supposed to know about this stuff. That’s the rationale behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is…
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Block
The longest journey begins. Or doesn’t.
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Event Apart Chicago wrap-up
The sights, sounds, and some of the sense of An Event Apart Chicago 2007.
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Staying creative
Everyone is creative. But some stay that way longer. How can you designers, writers, and the like, stay motivated and productive? (Plus: When the client says, “Make it like eBay,” what exactly does that mean?)
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A Sale of Two Cities
Join an amazing line-up of talented designers, developers, and thinkers for An Event Apart San Francisco — the final Event Apart show of 2007.