Resist revenge tweeting.
The people have removed a tyrant. I feel the joy and wonder of a newborn thing. My relief is so intense, it’s physical—my body has begun a slow unkinking, cell by cell, muscle by clenched muscle. But...
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Rediscovering music
Apropos of nothing in particular, I present my all-time listening (first 5.25 rows) and more recent listening: Drag slider: at left, my all-time listening; at right, more recent listening. Because I’m...
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“A $44 billion version of MySpace.”
My longtime friend and former collaborative partner Craig Hockenberry bids a dignified adieu to Twitterific, Twitter, and his mom … and calls for a standards-based universal timeline. — The Shit Show...
View ArticleFly, my designers, fly!
Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some...
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In search of a digital town square
Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and...
View ArticleJust add water.
Quick, before everyone else thinks of it. Set the word “SUCCESSION” in Engravers Gothic and export it to a transparent PNG. Download photos of confederate general Mitch McConnell and Republican Johns...
View Article“Where the people are”
It’s nearly twenty years ago, now, children. Facebook had only recently burst the bounds of Harvard Yard. Twitter had just slipped the bonds of the digital underground. But web geeks like me still saw...
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Open-source moderation
Bluesky introduces open-source, collaborative moderation for federated social media websites: Bluesky was created to put users and communities in control of their social spaces online. The first...
View ArticleA List Apart contributors list on Bluesky
I’ve started a Bluesky list featuring some of the brilliant writers, designers, coders, editors, and others who’ve contributed to A List Apart “for people who make websites” from the magazine’s first...
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Valediction.
I started using Twitter before the dawn of the iPhone. Back then, in 2006, it was a fun, funky, fully functional (if barebones) beta messaging service used mainly by The People of the Web—the kind of...
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My weekend project
It’s Sunday; I’m playing with my music collection, content as a fed-and-burped babe. Allow me to explain. I realized last night that, in tracking my shifting musical tastes via my Last.fm Pro account,...
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