Coders, complete this sentence: I learned to program… Some responses: …when I was 11 so that I could beat my dad at Robot Battle. …on the back side of punched cards on a UNIVAC 1100 as an intern at the Swedish Defence Central in the late 70s. …making a website for my band that I […]

“This is the web right now” —The Oatmeal. From Feeding Humans to Facebook to HTML5 Cheetah Balls, a series of cartoons on The State of the Web, including:

From Photoshop to grid to WordPress to code and back again, a 3-minute sped-up up series of screenshots encapsulating The making of an Obox Theme “The Making of an Obox Theme” by Josh Hemsley for WPCandy. Obox makes Themes for WordPress, Tumbler and Posterous.

From Power to the People to Town Halls and Tea Parties, democracy in action.

Oakbog, Adam Rosen’s Mac Support Service, has published a list of their Mac ‘puter Newsletter Tips. I’ve been using hell outta Double-Click Columns to Resize in Finder: in Column view, 2-click the scrollbar bottom (the “II”) to resize window to fit the longest filename. And this one might save lives: Ejecting a CD or DVD […]

The first all-girl radio station in the nation, WHER-Memphis.

MAYA Design audio-visually asks What is Information Architecture? by breaking down the query into “What is Information”… …and “What is Architecture?:” When we say Information Architecture (IA) we are really talking about everything you can define about a solution without specifying the underlying system (the raw plumbing) or specifying the particular user interface that will […]

Please pile on and join in the free4all-clusterfuq of commenting my “Killing Content” conspiratorial raving has incited over at the Transom: Sidebar.

Yours truly wrote a guest post — part 1 of 2 —  for Hack/Hackers, summing up the major pubmedia movers & shakers’ multi-year, multi-$M pubradio projects: “Public media is investing in major digital projects.” The next post will call for some smaller-scale open-source efforts, more likely to help mid-to-small size stations and independents.

The audio world lost a great producer today, Carolyn Jensen Chadwick.

Past, present, and future POVs of time, thru the lens of a Philip Zimbardo lecture, and the art of RSAnimate: The Secret Powers of Time RSA is the (deep breath) Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. They’ve been animating excerpts from their series of talks. Nary a note on who the […]