Open, Writ­ing, Blog­ging, Visu­al­iza­tion, and Ran­dom Bits

One of the ideas behind “The Lurker” cat­e­gory revolves around how we find things in the dig­i­tal realm and how we make con­nec­tions amongst the items we find. Specif­i­cally, I am intrigued with how we come to find and make con­nec­tions amongst the vast array of posts, videos, images, maps, and other dig­i­tal objects we find […]

The Lurker: A Category

Accord­ing to the “Lurk­ing” entry on Wikipedia: In inter­net cul­ture, a lurker is a per­son who reads dis­cus­sions on a mes­sage board, news­group, cha­t­room, file shar­ing or other inter­ac­tive sys­tem, but rarely or never par­tic­i­pates actively. I am a lurker. From Prof Hacker to William J. Turkel, from Smash­ing Mag­a­zine to 456 Berea St (Roger Johans­son), from A New Century […]

POSH Lan­guage

Here is a selec­tion of notable links from the design and web devel­op­ment front. For those work­ing with type on the web, I highly rec­om­mend the fol­low­ing 24 Ways arti­cle writ­ten by Richard Rut­ter: “Com­pose to a Ver­ti­cal Rhythm.” I also rec­om­mend Mea­gan Fisher’s 24 Ways arti­cle“Make Your Mockup in Markup.” Are you explor­ing pro­gres­sive enhance­ment in your designs […]