December 2010
44 posts
Tweaking Huffduffer →
Because I was so busy, the two-year anniversary of Huffduffer passed unnoticed back in October. Two years! It’s hard to believe. It seems like just yesterday that I launched it. It’s been…
“All media is social because human beings are social. The only difference is that...”
– Derek Powazek - All Media Is Social*
“Use the web. Host your own, pay for it, or find someone who values your data....”
– 0xDECAFBAD
“Yahoo! is shutting down Yahoo! Video next year. March 2011. March 15, 2011, to...”
– ASCII by Jason Scott / Yahoo!locaust
“Obviously “sunset” got the most attention, because that’s the kind of...”
– ASCII by Jason Scott / Yahoo!locaust
“Yet even as it has become ever more familiar and commonplace, this mash‐up of...”
– Chicago Journals - Isis
“Write them for humans, not search engine spiders.
Trust the Googlebot to...”
– Daring Fireball: Title Junk
Home-grown and Delicious →
I’ve been using Delicious since 2005—back when it was del.icio.us. I have over 2,000 bookmarks stored there. I moved to Magnolia for a while but we all know how that ended. Back then I…
“For a while we’ve posted our data all over the internet on all types of...”
– Death to web services. Long live web services! | The Haystack.
“… last night I walked past a piece of ten year old tech on the scrap pile....”
– ..about validating
“There’s a completely practical reason why an invalid fix that looks fine...”
– ..about validating
“Without deliberate planning, we have created amazing new tools for remembering....”
– Archive Fever: a love letter to the post real-time web | mattogle.com
“Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states that “any headline which ends...”
– Betteridge’s Law of Headlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“If crimes have been committed in connection with the WikiLeaks experience, let...”
– WikiLeaks Thoughts - Sunlight Foundation
“To a certain extent we always have this dream of writing an application once and...”
– Bobbie Johnson dot org : W3C’s Philippe Le Hégaret on HTML5: ‘In the past, web apps were limited’
“Rather than expose unknowns, I think it is more accurate to say that Wikileaks...”
– Wikileaks is not about secret information; it’s about insiders versus outsiders | technosociology
“WikiLeaks is just a website. The real story is that “least trusted...”
– Schneier on Security: WikiLeaks
“Let’s call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world that we might...”
– Fiction - Reality A and Reality B - NYTimes.com
One web →
I was in Dublin recently to give a little talk at the 24 Hour Universal Design Challenge 2010. It was an interesting opportunity to present my own perspective on web design to an audience that…
“Return all the material? Remove and destroy all records? This isn’t 1950. This...”
– Why Wikileaks Will Never Be Closed Or Blocked
“The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come...”
– Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American
WatchTime Phone (by August Anderson)
“This attack affects Flash and Java as well, but we have higher standards for...”
– Disabling the WebSocket protocol — Anne’s Blog
“TV was supposed to kill radio. The DVD was supposed to kill the Cineplex....”
– Lessons Learned in 10 Years on the Tech Beat — State of the Art - NYTimes.com
“When publishers appear to love their own books so little, when they’re...”
– Falling out of love (Phil Gyford’s website)
A brief list of false dichotomies →
In the world of web development, there are many choices that are commonly presented as true or false, black and white, Boolean, binary values, when in fact they exist in a grey goo of quantum…
“The smartphones of today are fundamentally no different from a computer....”
– The iPhone app is the Flash homepage of 2010 | VentureBeat
Adfonting →
It’s the start of the Christmas season. I know it’s the start of the Christmas season, not just because Brighton is currently blanketed in snow, but also because 24 Ways—the advent calendar for…
“The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource.”
– Parkinson’s Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
November 2010
21 posts
Spacelogging →
When I was gushing enthusiastically about Old Weather, I tried (and failed) to explain what it is that makes it so damn brilliant. I’ve just experienced some of that same brilliance. This time…