The challenge in establishing an effective design solution that reaches a broad audience is in no way less difficult or creative than making work that is personal in nature. In fact, I’d argue that it’s typically much more challenging, as it requires one to dissociate with personal perspectives, in an effort to understand the situation from a more pluralistic standpoint.
Eric Karjaluoto on design vs. style: Fuck Style an appeal to return to hardcore design.
One more victim of RSS:
I treat RSS with undeserving priority, and this causes two big problems: 1) I’ll stop whatever I’m doing to read, flag, or ‘mark as read’ all new RSS items as they come in, and 2) I’ll go to absurd lengths to ensure I have zero unread items whenever I walk away from a computer.
This compulsion has reached the point of being a real problem, and I’m finally taking steps to rectify it.
Back in the old days, when I still wrote on blogs about blogging, I suffered a major RSS burn out. My OPML list had reached the amazing and less tantalizing number of 800 entries, and every day I had to drag my back part to read. Reading, which once used to be a passion of mine.
Over the last days, I have carefully been adding feeds to my newsreader again. Even entries from the good old past.
Blogs written by pundits wannabe pundits, overly ethical and always according to the KIAKIB (Know It All, Know It Better) principle.
I might prefer to go down the snarky Gawker and Valleywag path.
…we learned early on the Web that dragging the past with us into the present weighs us down as we try to catch the future
Paul Boutin in 1998.
Reason enough to finally register my own name as URL. A thing I have not done over the last 13 years I’ve been online (admitted there was no www the first year of that online life).
Luckily I have a not common name.
You think I have a hard-on for the web because of some greater virtue? Fuck no, it’s the story: it’s that my story is there now, and I didn’t even have to do much but show up. Scores of photos, other people’s blogs, videos and videos I don’t even know about, and people, people who may wish they were never there with me, but there it is, there it’s been told, there we’re all told it, and even when all parties haven’t been recorded, the absence is just as telling.
Melissa Gira Grant, new Valleywag contributor, and obviously a great author.
After all those years online, I often wonder what would not have happened for me and what would have without the internet.
Time Capsule (UK) delayed. First ‘ships in February’, today ‘ships in 3-4 weeks’. Which is earliest March, 4th.
Mac OS X obviously is smarter than Windows. After having installed both Mac OS X 10.5.2 and Leopard Graphics Update, I was greeted with this message when I wanted to install the third update Apple released today. The Security Update 2008-001. That secure that it even can’t be installed.
Reminds me of Windows, except I can’t remember a monthly Windows update with 3 (Three!) required updates.
Although those updates are free, they don’t rejoice me as much as a working and stable OS.
But maybe they meant that the 2008-001 Security Update already contained is in Mac OS X 10.5.2. Terrific user experience!
Did I already mention that BootCamp doesn’t want to install, because the drive is fragmented?
True, my bad, Mac OS X doesn’t need any defragmentation!
But, this week the redistribution of Mimbo was taken a step further by Michael Oeser, who changed the name to Branford Magazine, thus relieving him of any GPL issues. He also added some bits from Structure (Justin Tadlock) and Revolution (Brian Gardner), though anyone viewing the source code can see it’s 90% Mimbo with a new paint job.
Darren Hoyt, creator of the wonderful Mimbo theme for WordPress after the release of his Blandford theme. But so many points are wrong in Darren’s whine reasoning:
To resume, a whine. A whine because the GPL *does call* for ethics, and likes the source to be credited (in code is sufficient – although I do doubt the Blandford theme credits in the code), but this is no license requirement and the GPL *does allow* any credit to be removed.
Pictures of the Camden Market fire in London (UK). Camden Market is my favourite hang out in London, every trip to London always started with some hours on the market and some pints at the Hawley Arms pub.
A very sad weekend.
Photo Credits: Rubén Navarro on flickr.
Today would be the day we resurrected, the day the soccer Phoenix, Manchester United would show the world, 50 years after the Munich disaster that we are a bunch of figthing heroes.
Instead we lost against Citeh. At Old Trafford. For the first time in 34 years we lost against City at home.
Allowing City to do the double for the first time in 39 years.
We didn’t put up much of a fight, even not to commemorate 23 lives, our history.
And no, Cristiano Ronaldo is not the best player in the world. The best player in the world can turn around a game like this. Cristiano’s role against top teams is rather inexistent. The situation is the same as last year, when we were close to the CL final: we need Wayne Rooney more than anyone else and we still need a striker.
If I were upset when we lost at the Council House, today I am devastated. Not just because we lost from City, more because I have been looking forward to today’s game for months now. To pay tribute to our fallen heroes and their family.
I’m devastated.
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Michael, do it. Do it now.
The stealth way. Give yourself 6-9 months time and write as you did at the start of TC. Go the uncov way after all the TC experience you gathered.
Together with the community gathering the trolls, your crew also did. Don’t get me wrong, I love Duncan, I’ve been reading Duncan for more than 3 years now and always will continue, but people like you, people like Ted, people with inside knowledge or extended coding knowledge, should go solo again.
And if you do, screw the
echo chamberTechmeme-osphere, you’ll be surprised of the following you could gather within only some weeks.TC, the magazine, works well and does its job, now it’s time for hardcore opinions again.