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Glitch
“It’s called Glitch because in the far-distant and totally-perfect future, the world starts becoming less and less probable, things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and there occurs what comes to be called the “glitch” — a grave danger of disemprobablization.” Intrigued can’t wait to see how Mr. Burka creative directs what looks to be an awesome project.
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W2 Woodward's - Perel Gallery - Vancouver, BC
Taken by kris krüg
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Unfounded Anger
In the design community there often seems to be this need, or this want to immediately critique a design. Critique might be too kind of a word, it’s more of a hate on a design. To immediately call something out as terrible, wrong, ridiculous, stupid or just plain dumb. In offices I’ve worked in I often hear people immediately yell out that something is “clowntown” or laugh about how terrible a design is or how horrendous a drop shadow might be.
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Conferences, Friends, and Stuff That Really Matters
I got to spend a dinner, okay half a dinner, well, alright more like a quarter of a dinner talking to Merlin Mann, mostly his android phone, but whatever, I’d wanted to meet him for years. He and John Gruber’s talk was my favorite at SXSWi this year, and getting to spend some time really talking to him in person probably made the trip for me. He’s all over the place and a massive personality that at times is overwhelming, but he’s a great guy and his post pretty much sums up my feelings about SXSWi this year.
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A Signature Cadence
Love this post from Rands In Repose and it couldn’t come at a better time. I’m working on finishing up a lot of little details on a web application and it’s great to remember how important these little things are.
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Does the broken windows theory hold online?
In my opinion it does, and I think Kottke’s points about the care and use of the visual design at the end of his post are spot on. He seems to sit on the fence with how much the visual design impacts the broken windows theory. I agree somewhat, a well moderated and active site owner probably does play a greater roll than the visual design in how much trolling and spam comments you get, but the visual design is still a vital component.
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Monocle's complete community print (limited edition)
“Designed by the Japanese illustrator Satoshi Hashimoto, it shows how to create a borough that’s green, clean, and well-connected - as envisioned by the urbanist Alejandro Gutierrez.” Want.
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Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
A fantastic article from George Oates, one of the designers at Flickr. There’s too many quotes in there to choose just one, but it got me thinking about community design in a slightly different way.
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Boagworld web design podcast
Nice new site from Paul Boag for his podcast. I finally met him briefly at SXSW this year and he was great to talk to. The inaugural interview for the new site is friend and fellow Blue Flavorite, Jeff Croft.
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Subway Crush
Great idea. Damn, I wish they had this when I was in New York. Too bad there’s no Subway here in Seattle.
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brightkite.com
Like dodgeball, but a bit more and hasn’t been abandoned. A nice visual design and the interactions are solid. I’m not ready to predict big things from it yet, but it has potential.
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Flickr Code
A new resource for developers out there looking to maximize the Flickr API.
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Stop lying to yourself and people will start believing
Word.
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Mint.com
I’ve spent years entering items into Quicken, but about a year ago I just stopped. It was becoming too much work for the benefit but this new application solves both problems. It’s the balancing your checkbook if the future.
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Commuter Feed: Latest Incidents
Nicely designed site that uses Twitter updates to keep you informed about traffic problems. Probably one of my favorite apps using Twitter although with my commute being only a mile and a half I don’t see myself using it much.
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Completing the Cycle of News
Congratulations Mike and the Newsvine team for making this happen. I’m excited to see what more they have in store as MSNBC and Newsvine become more integrated.
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OpenSocial - Google Code
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BookMooch
“Exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter.” Looks like a great service, and I’ve got quite a few books on my shelf that I’d like to swap out.
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Map of Online Communities
It’s a little dated now that Facebook is so popular but still great stuff. I think my favorite part is the dotted line usenet that’s shaped like a UFO.
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The Real Story of JPG Magazine
Great lessons on business, but a big blemish on a very cool magazine.
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file-swap.com is fun: Give one file - get one free!
Random File swapping over the net.
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Community Voice Mail
Awesome idea. Giving voicemail numbers to homeless people so they can use them to find work. “Spend $7 to change a life.”
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The Long Now Foundation
Slow down and think centuries!
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Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - The Flickrization of Yahoo
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WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
The Wal-mart movie
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Design for Democracy - Improving the Election Experience
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Neighbornode: the extensible neighborhood network