This is a piece I built a while back, inspired by infocamp SEA 2010 iframe oh no. I just discovered this is broken, or rather missing. I will try to find a copy, but in the meantime, let me describe it. It was a Javascript animation that showed two text fields. One for username, one for password. The fields automatically are filled in, and then the fields become completely black. Access = Equality. Authentication and authorization imply inequality. We sure do live in a weird world!
Paul Krugman forms a nice response to a critique of his argument using an argument that Aristotle laid out years ago, when discussing Endoxa (Greek: ἔνδοξα), which is essentially means ‘commonly held beliefs’.
First off, let me be clear: asking a graphic designer to design your website is akin to asking an Architect to design your landscape.
@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 web apps, in which I always fall on the side of web apps. I am a web developer, so this is my camp. But I believe in the open possibilities of information which is not walled off by a particular device. I don't see value in any system that makes it difficult for people to access the information. It's hard enough for us get, use, re-use information and when you place it in a system like Facebook, even with it's billion+ users, you are still excluding all those others who...
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 consolidating it. It allows me to look again and think about what I was writing. There are several systems (blojsom) which is buried on my dead xserve, and eventually I will recover that. It has all my drawings I did in my art class. That was such a good time. I really wish I could return to that period and draw again. Nothing really preventing me except myself.
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 just the means in which we connect, but the first step is simply the production. and this can be done without any friends, followers or connections. the web is a fantastic medium that allows us to be public without telling a soul. it's like creating graffiti - it's a mark we leave and no one may see it because it's too high or in an alley no one travels down. but it's there and it's public. and that is important.