January 2011
45 posts
“Facebook is retro because, like AOL, it’s retro by its nature. It’s...”
– Why I Don’t Use Facebook | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com
“This idea of Metallica or some rock n’ roll singer being rich, that’s not...”
– Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
A dark star is born →
At Clearleft towers, we’ve been having semi-regular movie nights, based around a connecting theme. Previous themes include car chases (The French Connection, Bullitt and Ronin) and films…
WatchDark Star Puppet Show (by Jeremy Keith)
The Huffduffer Hotline →
After seeing (and hearing) what Brian was doing at History Hack Day, I decided I’d have to have a play with Tropo. Like Twilio, it’s a service that allows you to build voice-activated apps…
“The best part is that Apple’s app store will finally be seen for what it is: a...”
– The future of app stores - QuirksBlog
“Given that we design solutions that adjust to the user’s context – mobile,...”
– Web Design 2011: Normal No Longer Exists : StevenClark.com.au
“As groups around the world try to redefine the practice of design, we risk a...”
– Changing the Definition of Design - there is a lot to say, of this we are sure
“We should learn a few things from the problems we’ve had with gameification and...”
– Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things - Emoticomp
Clarity →
Two good things have happened. WHATWG Firstly, as I hoped, the WHATWG have updated the name of their work to simply be HTML. This is something they tried to do a year ago, and I kicked up…
“There are three things I really want to see.
1. Stories written for the the...”
– russell davies: a this for a that
“If you’re a developer, designer, author or someone else who writes,...”
– tantek.com
“While back-end engineers can quite easily pick up the languages and semantics,...”
– computed style: Hiring Front-End Engineers
“Now that we’ve moved to a more incremental model without macro-level...”
– FAQ - WHATWG Wiki
“In practice, the WHATWG has basically been operating like this for years, and...”
– The WHATWG Blog — HTML is the new HTML5
“Choose a book and read it at the same time as a bunch of people you hang out...”
– Oblique Reading: a Tutorial | booktwo.org
“It doesn’t really matter if the New York Times thinks CSS 3 or SVG are HTML5,...”
– HTML5 Gains Logo, Loses Meaning | Webmonkey | Wired.com
“By building a native app you win room for experiment, but lose the reach a web...”
– The browser is always behind - QuirksBlog
“Stop selling your stuff to corporate jerks. It never works. They always wreck...”
– We Didn’t Stop The Fire. – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
“Technology changes fast enough that we can’t safely say that a file format that...”
– Forever / from a working library
Landmark roles →
David made a comment on Twitter about some markup he was working on: Feels dirty setting id’s on main HTML5 page header and footer, but overriding inheritance they cause seems…
“We’re encouraged to record and express everything, all the time. In real time,...”
– Cyberspace When You’re Dead - NYTimes.com
“We will move on, just as we did from the chat rooms of AOL, without even looking...”
– Facebook hype will fade - CNN.com
Tagdiving →
Speaking of URLs… We were having a discussion in the Clearleft office recently about that perennially-tricky navigation pivot: tags. Specifically, we were discussing how to represent the…
“Although I consume a wagonload of blogs every week I don’t bother to read the...”
– No comment - QuirksBlog
The URI is the thing →
Here’s what’s on my desk at work: an iMac (with keyboard, mouse and USB cup warmer), some paper, pens, a few books and an A4-sized copy of Paul Downey’s The URI Is The Thing—an…
“The web is not, despite the desires of so many, a publishing medium. The web is...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
“You’re down to the bedrock. A boolean or integer value is the digital...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
“The web was surprisingly good at emulating a TV, a newspaper, a book, or a...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
“So, if most tweets are too ephemeral to reach their full potential as ideas,...”
– If You Didn’t Blog It, It Didn’t Happen - Anil Dash
DOM Scripting, second edition →
You may have noticed that there’s a second edition of DOM Scripting out. I can’t take any credit for it; I had very little to do with it. But I’m happy to report that the additions meet with my…
Reading the street →
Like many others, I was the grateful recipient of a Kindle this Christmas. I’m enjoying having such a lightweight reading device and I’m really enjoying the near-ubiquitous free connectivity…
December 2010
44 posts
Twenty Ten →
…another year over, and what have you done?
Well, quite a bit actually, Mr. Lennon. In 2010 Jessica and I moved into our new home in the Elm Grove area of Brighton. It’s a really nice…