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  • Adios, Technorati?

    Adios, Technorati?

    Without my permission, Technorati has stuck my photo and its logo in the sidebar of my site’s front page.

  • Facebook and your privacy

    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?

  • Give HTML e-mail a chance

    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.

  • Guestbook spam gambit of the week

    Guestbook spam gambit of the week

    I love the smell of guestbook spam in the morning.

  • Blue Beanie Day

    Blue Beanie Day

    On Monday, November 26, 2007, don your blue beanie to show your support for web standards and accessibility.

  • iPhone “disappearing photos” bug

    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…

  • Facts and Opinions about Zeldman

    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.

  • Findings from the Web Design Survey

    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…

  • We live as we dream

    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…

  • To be of use to others is the only true happiness. Although a 160 GB iPhone would also be nice.

    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.

  • Facebook Considered Harmless

    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…

  • Block

    Block

    The longest journey begins. Or doesn’t.

  • Event Apart Chicago wrap-up

    Event Apart Chicago wrap-up

    The sights, sounds, and some of the sense of An Event Apart Chicago 2007.

  • Staying creative

    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?)

  • A Sale of Two Cities

    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.