Category: industry
This web business: culture and concepts.
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Around the Word with Web Talent
My first book didn’t sell very well but it had an effect on people’s hearts. Web designers around the world circulated a single copy of Taking Your Talent to the Web, adding their autographs, drawings,…
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AEA Boston 2008 session notes
Linked session notes and downloads from An Event Apart Boston 2008.
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So long, Boston. We’ll be back.
An Event Apart Boston 2008 is over but the memories and photos linger on. Eric and I started An Event Apart because we saw the need for a live, concentrated, learning and sharing experience about…
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Video: Jeff Veen on Data Overload
Live onstage at An Event Apart New, Jeff Veen explains the magnitude of data we process every hour, and the responsibility of designers to help us make sense of it.
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Hope is the daughter of dawn
Awake at 4:30 AM at the end of a four-day heat wave. Sweating, but not from the weather. Running a business during a recession gets you out of bed with the chickens. I have always…
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WordPress 2.5 unleashed
WordPress 2.5, designed by Happy Cog and built by Automattic, is now available for your downloading pleasure.
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Podcast news
The first video podcasts from SXSW.
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Version targeting, take two
In Issue No. 253 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Jeremy Keith says version targeting in IE8 is all right but its default is all wrong. I argue that the default seems…
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Facebook, Twitter, and Bird Flu
If “Our Broken Borders” should someday turn into a ratings loser for CNN’s Lou Dobbs, perhaps he can switch to “The Dwindling Productivity of the American Worker: Is Facebook Sapping Our National Vigor?”
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Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers…
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Not your father’s standards switch
For seven years, the DOCTYPE switch has stood designers and developers in good stead as a toggle between standards mode and quirks mode. But when IE7 “broke the web,” the quest was on to find…
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An Event Apart New Orleans
An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, kicks off its 2008 season with An Event Apart New Orleans, a monster, 19-hour, two-day creative session. Join us April 24–25 at the Hilton…
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Self-publishing is the new blogging
When you’ve flown this far from Gutenberg, the only place to travel is back.
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Let me hear your standards body talk
Jeremy Keith’s “Year Zero” beautifully explains why the W3C needs our backs, not our bullets.
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Re: CSS Unworking Group
Proposing change when the change makes sense is good. Proposing change because you are disappointed and frustrated isn’t good enough.