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what happens after you have everything?
I have cats. The cats are prone to tearing around the house at 3am if they do not have free access to the out of doors. Therefore, I need to install a cat door. This morning, I was shopping on Amazon...
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iPods are the new pants
Some time, far away in the future, school children will huddle around a glass box containing a small silver artifact propped up against a block of lucite. Next to the artifact there will be a...
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what is email’s business model?
In a recent blog post, Dave Winer comments that: “Eventually, soon I think, we’ll see an explosive unbundling of the services that make up social networks. What was centralized in the form of Facebook,...
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your audience is still made of humans
Over at A List Apart Sharon Lee has written a piece entitled Human-to-Human Design. She encourages the web designer to remember that: “A good website is built on two basic truths—that the internet is...
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building habitat for humans on the web
Who knows what MetroProper is really going to be, but Phil Tadros at least might have a fighting chance. In an interview on The Where Blog, MetroProper is explained as a site which: “takes a number of...
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it ain’t all that – Facebook might have started a firestorm
It seems that across the web, a new anti-Facebook sentiment has been growing among journalists and bloggers. Not because of what Facebook has done, but because they haven’t done enough. Even with an...
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the Facebook stalker and other urban myths
When changes happen in society leading to unexpected results, culture fires up an immune system in the form of urban legends and cautionary tales. I’m sitting on my hands waiting for the first real...
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slide deck from EMERCE e.day
Howdy all. So the e.day is over, but the presentation goes on. Many of you have asked for my presentation to be posted on slideshare so I took the jump and uploaded for the very first time. Embedded...
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trancending my human limitations through the web
Of the many contacts I made while recently in the Netherlands, Alexander Van Elsa has stood out as someone really thinking about things. I’m always a fan of audacious titles and his post “The flaws in...
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the semantic web is dead – long live the semantic web!
Using a great snowclone, I hereby declare that the semantic web is dead. In the same breath, I also declare that it is alive, well, and much further underway that you might imagine. To understand what...
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viva la semantic revolution – get started by rolling your own
If we do a quick search for why web 2.0 sucks, there are plenty of resources and even attempts at correcting those issues. But we’re not here to talk about that. We are here to talk about why we need...
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design cancer?
When we create design layouts in tools like Photoshop or Illustrator, does the ease of copy-paste ultimately create artificially dense, human-unfriendly spaces? Are these interfaces not unlike a...
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5 lessons for young designers
While at eBay, I’ve had the opportunity to cut my teeth being a “designer” on various projects, initiatives, and explorations. Over time, I’ve learned that (like many other things), design looks like...
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designed for maximum fail
One of the design practices I employ is to assume I am working for evil rather than good. I sit down and I ask myself, “what if I really wanted this to fail, how would I sabotage it?” There’s many...
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is the iPhone the spiritual successor to the Palm line?
And what do we call these things anyway? PDAs? Handhelds? Since 1999, I’ve had 4 devices with a touchscreen, which ostensibly keep track of what I should be doing, but usually were just a way for me...
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