whatever grabs my attention
Last week, I wrote a gentle intro to Mastodon for the Zapier* blog. I aimed it at regular people that hadn’t yet delved into everything it takes to leave Twitter for the federated network, offering tips on how it works and how to get started using it. After writing the piece, I realized it could …
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In response to my first few frustrating hours with a Droid, my friend Gina asked if I'd post my thoughts four weeks on, instead of first impressions which can often be deceiving (but amusing — I encourage others to do it sometime even if half your blog entry ends up bemoaning the difficult packaging to …
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Some notes from spending a few hours with my first Droid phone. The first thing I encountered that drove me crazy was trying to login to my own sites. When I highlighted a text field, it took up the entire viewport in landscape mode, not even showing the label for what I was entering. I …
Flickr's most addictive page in their giant game that is photo sharing is easily the Recent Activity page. It used to be a slight drag to have to check comments you left on other photos as well as your own, and soon after they redesigned their iPhone version of flickr, I realized the combined activity …
Recording of me trying to follow a link in a Salon article today. Somehow I wish there was a code of online advertising ethics that stated One Must Never Obscure Content With Advertising but I’m not holding my breath for that happening anytime soon.
After my initial problems, I got a new iPhone from my nearby Apple store and spent several hours using it. My first reaction is that it’s very good, meeting the almost impossible expectations I had for it. Photos are fun and look great, movies are nice and will work great on planes, and the iPod …
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I love the way the release candidate 1 of Firefox 2 handles a RSS feed. I accidentally hit a RSS feed today and was pleasantly surprised by the user experience. There was an informational message at the top explaining it as a feed, along with a RSS subscription preference option and a nicely rendered (not …
The new MasterCard logo seemed too obvious: Priceless indeed. (yeah, those are goatse sticker hands)
Have you seen the new logo for cable channel TLC? The old logo was all serif-y and dated, but the new one reminds me of the UPS logo redo. I wonder if the new TLC logo idea was “what would scrabble tiles look like on a Web 2.0 site?”
(craigslist redo redo, originally uploaded by mathowie) I’ve been a longtime user of Craigslist. I got my San Francisco Apartment using it, bought a few things, and eventually I met Craig and we’ve talked at conferences together about what it takes to run a community. At the recent SXSW fest, a panel redesigned Craigslist. It’s …
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