Blogs and Blogging
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- 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 brief bursts of frequently updated content to which others respond via comments. Did I say we are witnessing the traditional [...]
- WordPress 2.5 unleashed
WordPress 2.5, designed by Happy Cog and built by Automattic, is now available for your downloading pleasure.
- Monday links
Chopsticks by Segura. A greener LA via Boston. Stealing patterns, making models. Samurai errata and SXSW bowling.
- Adios, Technorati?
Without my permission, Technorati has stuck my photo and its logo in the sidebar of my site’s front page.
- Facebook Considered Harmless
I design interfaces so I’m supposed to know about this stuff. That’s the rationale behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is that it provides a way to blow off work you should be doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving something. At least in most offices, you can’t masturbate at your desk. But you can Tweet.
- Link ‘n Park
A lifetime’s worth of comic book covers, deep thoughts on ubiquitous digitization, Spool on lessons learned when new features tank, and much more.
- Daily Reports from 1997 on
You don’t need the WayBack machine to go way back in zeldman.com history. Enjoy these representative Daily Report pages from 1997 on (including the famous HTML Fist).
- Conference speaker’s pledge
I will not yodel. I will not introduce my first slide by saying, “Here is my first slide.”
- Comments are the lifeblood of the blogosphere
When I returned to New York City, 193 comments awaited me in the moderation queue. 191 were spam.
- Patronizing Joe Clark
Why are you buying that latte, when you could be helping Joe do what he does?