Category: Zeldman

‘Tis himself.

  • 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…

  • AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    Linked session notes and downloads from An Event Apart Boston 2008.

  • So long, Boston. We’ll be back.

    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…

  • Video: Got Live in New Orleans

    Video: Got Live in New Orleans

    Caught live at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008, video clips featuring Andy Clarke on web layout and yours truly on journalism and the web are now online for your viewing pleasure at An Event…

  • Hope is the daughter of dawn

    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…

  • Where do you begin?

    Where do you begin?

    Q. I’m searching for your archive. Whenever I find a really good blog, I like to start at the beginning so I can understand better some of what you’re talking about. And I can’t find…

  • Stick out your tongue

    Stick out your tongue

    While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…

  • 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…

  • The feed is gone

    The feed is gone

    For a busy blogger, some content creation shortcuts work, and others don’t.

  • 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.

  • Zeldman on Talk Radio Today

    Zeldman on Talk Radio Today

    Live today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, I’m this week’s guest on “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the leading internet talk radio show on the “challenging and compelling canvas of today’s design world.”

  • Podcast news

    Podcast news

    The first video podcasts from SXSW.

  • The SXSW Diet

    The SXSW Diet

    A minute later she came back, revolving them a few inches from my lips.

  • Dear anonymous

    Dear anonymous

    Nicest fuck-you ever.

  • Version targeting, take two

    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…