How to build a website by not building it
First off, let me be clear: asking a graphic designer to design your website is akin to asking an Architect to design your landscape.
Father and son surf lesson in Morro Bay, CA - Mike Baird
Surf’s up
@JustinKownacki made a comment on how bad the mobile experience was for most websites. It struck me at first that this was the same old debate about native apps versus…
in pieces
I'm slowly bringing together all the various blog posts I've created over the years, coming from several different systems. None of the content is all that good, but it's worthwhile…
where to begin
i am activated these days to find new and interesting ways to share information. i'm not just talking about social networks, but something deeper. in the end, social networks are…
Rebuild
It's time to rebuild the blog. Because my server died, I haven't recovered a lot of old blog posts. I actually found some of them online. Even though I never…
Does Twitter need a mute button?
Dave Winer seems to think so. And it has been suggested before. I found one call for this the last time we had an election and I bet we will hear more again…
Alternatives to hierarchical file systems
@aral asked on twitter whether there is any alternative to the hierarchical filesystem. It seems to be there is one clear path which we could take and I've never understood why we've…
layout, content and structure walk into a bar: who’s first?
Mark Boulton (@markboulton) wrote an important article over the recent groundswell of support for the 'content first' methodology in web design. In it, he argues that the idea that content is first,…
CME: content management ecosystem
I adore - I know, a funny word to use, but there really is some love there - the concept of a content management ecosystem, which Matt Thompson further outlines in…
getting your delivery process in order
Mat Wall (@matwall), former Lead Software Architect for the Guardian in a presentation on mongoDB said something very important about moving technology forward within an organization. He was asked, how do they introduce new…