Category: people

The other white meat.

  • Rise Above

    Rise Above

    M.I.A. Takes to the Streets: a slide show at NYTimes.com. Photos: Ryan McGinley for The New York Times.

  • BWS4: Content Strategy

    BWS4: Content Strategy

    The final cut of The Big Web Show “Episode 4: Content Strategy,” recorded in front of a live internet audience earlier today, is now online for your viewing pleasure. Hosted, as always, by Dan Benjamin…

  • The First Time

    The First Time

    A friend’s young son had just used the toilet and wiped himself for the first time. She congratulated him on being a big boy. To which he replied: “Mother. Surely you don’t expect me to…

  • Going up

    Going up

    Ian Corey in the hundred-year-old elevator at Nuthouse Hardware. Via flickr.com. Posted via web from Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?

  • The Amanda Project

    The Amanda Project

    Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a media social network, writing project, and book series combined.

  • 41 Shades of Blue

    41 Shades of Blue

    Douglas Bowman leaves Google.

  • Cognition

    Cognition

    Two brilliant user experience pros join Happy Cog Studios.

  • Communication Marches On

    Communication Marches On

    A failure to connect.

  • Save the Accessibility Institute

    Save the Accessibility Institute

    Join Knowbility in urging the University of Texas to reconsider its decision to close the Accessibility Institute, founded and led with distinction by the late Dr. John Slatin. Sign the petition.

  • Around the Word with Web Talent

    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,…

  • What happened here

    What happened here

    This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has…

  • Art direction on the web?

    Art direction on the web?

    On Tuesday morning, while Malarkey was furiously getting himself permanently uninvited to Håkon Lie’s Christmas parties, and the jungle drums spoke of nothing but Firefox 3, Jason Santa Maria quietly slipped a torpedo into the…

  • The vanishing personal site

    The vanishing personal site

    OUR PERSONAL SITES, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and…

  • A show about nothing, part 11

    A show about nothing, part 11

    Adjusting position of dirty glasses and plates in dishwasher. “Geometry or physics?” I asked. “Generalized anxiety disorder,” she replied.

  • The John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project

    The John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project

    The John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project matches accessibility experts with companies that would like a brief review of their site for accessibility. In return, the site owner is asked to contribute a minimum of $500…