Tag: jeremy-keith
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In dependence
Jeremy Keith has chimed in on the conversation started by Jason Kottke’s "The blog is dead" piece from a few weeks ago with In dependence. Many of us are feeling an increasing unease, even disgust, with the sanitised, shrink-wrapped, handholding platforms that make it oh-so-easy to get your thoughts out there …on their terms …for…
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How the people of CERN work
Jeremy Keith, after visiting CERN in Switzerland: "According to most established social and economic theory, nothing should ever get done at CERN. It’s a collection of thousands of physics nerds—a mixture of theorists (the ones with blackboards) and experimentalists (the ones with computers). When someone wants to get something done, they present their ideas and…
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Tubes by Andrew Blum
Andrew Blum, in Tubes: "For all the talk of the placelessness of our digital age, the Internet is as fixed in real, physical places as any railroad or telephone system ever was." I must get a copy of this book. I found it via Jeremy Keith’s nice post about visiting the Heart’s Content cable station…
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Map Tales
This is great. Map Tales is a simple but great service to share just about anything using a map. Check out Jeremy Keith’s examples.
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Export your Delicious bookmarks using Terminal on Mac OS X
Reading Jeremy Keith’s recap of the fact that Delicious is shutting down being sold off and that he wanted to pull all of his bookmarks off of the service and onto his site reminded me that I wanted to do the same thing. His example shows an easy way to grab all of your Delicious…
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Regarding blog comments, again
I’m behind in my reading and even further behind in my writing. Which is why I’m just now finally writing about something I’ve wanted to since earlier this week even though the original post was written in late February. Ugh. Alex Payne, one of the many talented people behind Twitter, recently wrote on his blog…
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Jeffrey Zeldman: The vanishing personal site
Jeffery Zeldman on the trend of personal sites, or the one-stop URL for each person’s published goods online, going the way of the dinosaur and how more and more people are publishing their goods on many different services. I’d be remiss not to mention my goal of Bringing it all together and how I’m getting pretty…
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One possible benefit from disabling comments
There has been an ongoing discussion as to whether or not blogs should always have comments enabled to allow its readers to be part of the conversation. I myself firmly believe that each blog post should be thought of as a starting point of, or a response to, a conversation. Some deal with this issue…
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Live from SXSW in Austin, TX
Below, in order, are my notes, thoughts, and random pieces of media that I’m collecting at this year’s SXSW. You can subscribe to my blog with this feed, and keep up to date. Each time I update this page, I will mark the date, time, and location that I am updating. Each date and time…
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Re: The usefulness of Microformats
Kyle Kneath recently wrote I just don’t get this whole Microformats thing and I wanted to take a minute to respond to him. Kyle is doubting the usefulness of Microformats, and is also saying that he thinks the learning curve is too hard because of the documentation making things "too hard". First I’ll address his…