Life in progress
The state of gender diversity at web conferences, courtesy of Kottke. The only conference with more than one-third female presenters is the BlogHer Business 2007 event despite an excellent list of female speaker candidates that was published in October of last year. (On a related and important note, BlogHer has 100% female speakers, which I find equally offensive to those with 100% male speakers.)
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Thinking about buying a new Mac? Check Mactactic first to see if you should snatch one up or hold out a bit longer.
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Ranking of the 50 most anticipated unreleased web applications based on bookmarking in del.icio.us. It would be interesting to apply this technique to lots of different kinds of sites.
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If there was a commercial for the Web 2.0 movement, this would be it. Very well done.
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Looking at MySpace’s underlying technologies, it becomes clear that neither their egregious error rates — often coming in at 20% or higher for certain times or geographical areas — nor their poor infrastructure and design demonstrate a lack of effort. “For example, the seventh 1 million-account database MySpace brought online wound up being filled in just seven days.”
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Will iPhone revolutionize the mobile web market? From Cameron’s assessment: “…While the iPhone won’t revolutionize the mobile industry as a whole anytime soon, it will revolutionize the individual mobile web experience.”
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I think Zeldman’s Web 2.0 thinking game just became my favorite Zeldman post of all time. Don’t forget to read the comments!
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For anyone who has ever suffered through so-called agile software development.
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A handy list of useful TiVo tricks and Easter eggs for Series1 and Series2 TiVos.
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Read about Jonathan Ive (also known as Apple’s design overlord or Steve’s right-hand design man), the most unassuming celebrity-status designer out there.
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The quintessential Mac OS X shortcut guide. In other words, the one you’ve been desperately seeking since the dawn of OS X.
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ArsTechnica reports on women’s affinity for technology. I do find their statistics on technology use a little confusing, however; if men are using technology for 17 hours a day, either the researcher’s definition of “technology” is pretty loose or men only have seven hours a day for sleeping, eating, showering and other non-technical tasks.
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A reminder of why I’m so grateful to be a designer first and a developer second instead of the inverse.
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Talented individuals are leaving the W3C in droves. From the most recent renegade: “Think about this for a bit. Masayasu Ishikawa, W3C HTML Activity Lead, expert on the matter, stands in front of the group chartered to take care of the HTML and XHTML specifications, discussing what is supposed to replace both HTML and XHTML as we know it, stating repeatedly what is trivially obvious to anyone who understands a bit about the matter, and the group just goes ‘Lalalala… We do not listen to this! Lalalalala…’”
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From the Apple mouse to the first on-screen button, read about buttons in all shapes and sizes.
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