Category: writing
The art of the well-chosen syllable.
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Real Publishers Ship
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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…
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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…
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Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room
My friend, the content strategist Kristina Halvorson, likes to call content “the elephant in the room” of web design. She means it’s the huge problem that no one on the web development team or client…
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Mission of Promo
The third edition of Designing With Web Standards has hit the shelves; excerpts and interviews are hitting digital airwaves everywhere. Among the latest: Creative Expert interviews Zeldman and Marcotte about DWWS3e, live, with call-in questions.…
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Kickstart Sundman’s Creation
John Sundman is looking for your financial support so he can finish writing and publish his fourth novel, Creation Science.
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17 Tweets
Just like it says.
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Kindling II
Two salient points, omitted from the previous discussion and verified this morning, are worth mentioning.
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Kindling
The process by which books are converted to Kindle format introduces errors which do not get corrected. Every publisher knows this, though none will say so on record. The problem is one of economics. The…
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What’s new in DWWS 3e
The 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards is coming soon to a bookstore near you. This significant revision to the foundational web standards text is packed with new ideas.
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Write When Inspired
In writing four books and an unknown quantity of articles and blog posts, I’ve discovered the simple secret to maintaining quality. I share it with you here in mnemonic nursery rhyme fashion
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Editorial Intern Wanted
We’re looking for one good intern. Experience the publication process from first draft through galleys and launch; learn from industry and community leaders who are funny, smart, and nice.
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“Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book
“Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com.
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DWWS 3e
Sorry I haven’t written much here, lately, but I’ve been working on the third edition of a book you may know.
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Recession tips for web designers
“For web designers, there are four keys to surviving bad economic times: do good work, charge a fair price, lower your overhead, and be sure you are communicating with your client. As a reader of…