Anil Dash

For the last few months, there's been a lot of conversation around the "Department" of Government Efficiency, which is ostensibly an effort at improv...

One thing I like to do is make fires. It’s often considered a less socially-acceptable pastime than my other wood-destruction hobbies like writing and woodwork...

Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and dis...

I keep having a conversation with people around the tech world about how the industry’s current state of change — especially the potential disruption of incumb...

Many people will be familiar with Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, who was one of the most high-profile of the wave of hipster grifters during the 2010...

It’s hard to really take in, after all these years, that most people have no memory of the day. The majority of people in the world were either not born, or no...

As I write this, we’ve just heard news that Oprah is planning to do a big broadcast special about AI and society. Despite the fact that it hasn’t aired, and I...

A lot of the ways that the ultra-wealthy think about, and act about, money seem almost incomprehensible to those outside of their orbit. Having had a chance to...

Okay, previously we covered many of the most common things you'd want to know about a board of directors at an organization, including the basics like what a...

Nearly every organization that is designed to have impact has a board of directors, whether that's a small non-profit, or a giant corporation, or anything in b...

You might have noticed, it’s not a super fun time to be in the publishing industry, especially if you’re trying to do journalism. The years-long drumbeat of ba...

When trying to understand systems, one really eye-opening and fundamental insight is to realize that the machine is never broken . What I mean by this is, whe...

I have a lot of thoughts about systems and how they work, and how we can teach systems thinking to others. Maybe one good place we could start is by capturing...

David Letterman (whose team is doing a wonderful job of presenting and narrating his formidable archives) recently posted an amusing anecdote about Prince's fi...

Whether it's resumes or reports, budgets or broadsides, I'm pretty regularly sent working documents from a wide range of people, and over the years I've notice...

You've heard the call to action at the end of nearly every podcast you've ever listened to: "Listen to us on your favorite podcast app", or in the ph...

It has been a full generation since the last time I can remember the definitive, most credible perspectives on a major tech news story happening across multipl...

Not too long ago, I said "Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ord...

I find myself often having to explain to people how our reaction to certain events or actions depends a lot on the existing context where we were relating to s...

I didn't think I'd keep reflecting on this day, but somehow I can't. It's been with me for most of my lifetime that I can remember, and perhaps more importantl...

It's happened again ! I'm an answer in today's Daily Crossword Puzzle over at Vulture, called The Single Puzzle This is thanks (once more) to Malaika Hand...

Today, in the New York Times, Paul Krugman shares a key insight that his headline editor summarizes as The Rich Are Crazier Than You and Me . While this is tr...

There's an extraordinary amount of hype around "AI" right now, perhaps even greater than in past cycles, where we've seen an AI bubble about once per...

Back in the latter part of the 20th century, a lot of subcultures held onto a concept called "selling out", a nebulously-defined idea based on a nega...

Back in 2021, my friend Jesse Thorn interviewed two of my creative heroes, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, for an absolutely indispensible episode of Bullseye . Th...

I've been saying this for a few years now, but it's worth recording here for the record: It's impossible to overstate the degree to which many big tech CEOs an...

Mastodon and the fediverse are clearly taking off, bringing in millions of new users, and also organically inspiring a wave of technical innovation that dwarfs...

You should absolutely keep some ketchup around the house. And soy sauce, and Sriracha, and a good BBQ sauce. And some honey. But if you really want to add fl...

The only time someone remembered September 11, 2001 to me in the last year was when a stranger mentioned it as part of the reason he was trying to assault me...

[cw: violence] I just wanted to capture this story here once so I don't have to tell it to anyone again. Because, while I am okay now, it is unpleasant to keep...

Just to document a conversation that I've had a number of times in the last year, its important to understand the implications (and indeed, the motivations) of...

Somehow, improbably, I am again referenced in a crossword puzzle , this time it was the Sunday Boston Globe from back on April 17th. This time, I have Joon...

Listen, I'm not the one making this assertion. It's Vulture's daily 10x10 crossword puzzle for May 17th, entitled "The Sexual Tension Puzzle", in w...

The Webby Awards have recognized Kevin McCoy and I with their Lifetime Achievement Award this year , for "developing a blockchain powered way for artists...

If a company is debating whether a user's account should be suspended, they've already failed to build a modern platform that follows best practices. Why are t...

Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we’re seeing an inc...

Security reports from other sites are welcome. Why aren’t safety reports? One of the most fundamental triumphs of the last few decades of open source culture...

Here’s how you do it. Build a platform which relies on cultural creation as its core value, but which only sees itself as a technology platform. Stick to t...

You can't win unless you know what you're fighting for. Many of the most important and valuable milestones of progress in society have been achieved through...

Though he’s one of the most gifted and important artists to have ever created popular music, Stevie’s legacy as a tireless and fearless advocate for justice ma...

Each year, folks ask me for predictions about what's going to happen in tech in the coming year. Generally, what they're really asking is what I hope/expect is...

I've been blogging here for more than 20 years, and the only organizing principle behind what I write here, if anything, is a fascination about how we make cul...

I've spent a couple weeks using a new 14" Apple MacBook Pro daily (as a replacement for my last machine, which was a similar, but rather terrible, 2016...

The key to protecting people's privacy on the internet isn't in trying to stop users' data from being sent to different services, it's in poisoning the well by...

One of the biggest sources of miscommunication is people having different styles of communication, or different norms about the right way to express emotion...

Recently, a motivated Prince fan created a spreadsheet that attempts to catalog the entirety of Prince's thousands of recordings over the course of his caree...

Every year, for twenty years now, I've written an observance of this day. Sometimes it's for myself, sometimes it's for the small cohort of folks who've checke...

Amongst the many new publications that's popped up in the current newsletter boom, I've been enjoying Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci's "Embedded". One...

Here are some before-and-afters from a set of photos my parents took on a visit to Manhattan in 1985. I tried to replicate the angles as best I could in the mo...

The Konami Code is one of the longest-running inside references amongst both gamers and coders, acting as something of a shibboleth for a certain kind of nerd....

After a pause of a few years, Twitter announced today that they're going to resume allowing any user to request the blue verification checkmark for their acc...

Anytime a big new market pops up, people rush in to stake their claims and make their fortunes. Our culture loves creation myths, especially in technology. Fab...

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the greatest games ever made, and one of the breakout hits of the Nintendo Switch platform, which is on its w...

On this day in 2007, Prince won Super Bowl XLI with a soaring halftime performance that climaxed with the skies opening up to honor his guitar solo. It is not...

It is almost impossibly difficult to explain Robin Byrd to anyone who was not an adult living in NYC toward the end of the last century, though everyone who...

I love any kind of advocacy for safer, more humane streets, so it was a real joy to get to guest on the wonderful The War on Cars podcast. Doug Gordon went d...

Duleshwar Tandi, better known these days as Rapper Dule Rocker, is one of the most successful and influential rappers to have ever come out of the Kalahandi di...

A while back, when I wrote out in plain words that we have a politically dominant death cult ruling America right now, I worried about the risks of saying my...

These days, I'm a hobbyist web developer. That used to be a common thing people did; it was like having a crafting hobby, but with web pages. Over the last dec...

Ted Lasso, the standout series of Apple's new Apple TV+ streaming service, rightfully earned a place on many people's lists of the most-recommended new shows o...

Over the weekend, we had the chance to explore the newly-opened Moynihan Station, the massive new expansion to Penn Station that's been in the works for decade...

I was delighted to discover Omar Rizwan's TabFS , a brilliant hack that lets you see your browser tabs as folders and files on your computer, because it's inc...

In the early days of Twitter, there was a pleasingly low-tech tradition called "follow friday" (which people later denoted with the #FF hashtag), whe...

About once a year, I do a little digital reset to help make my online life a little more pleasant. I’m not advocating that anybody do the same as me, but I h...

The slogan, for people who weren’t in Manhattan that day, is “Never Forget”. The people who were not here, who were never here, call it “9/11”. But the people...

Twenty five years ago today, Microsoft released Windows 95. It was undoubtedly a technical leap forward, but its biggest, most lasting impacts are about how it...

With authoritarianism at our door, the policies that progressives are driving for will be dependent on whether the fundamental institutions of democracy are pr...

People are wrong on the Internet every day; generally I don’t try to fuss about that too much. But when Sam Lessin, a former VP of Product Management at Facebo...

A significant percentage of conservative culture in America defines “freedom” as death. This is causing a lot more problems right now than even its usual horri...

I almost can’t remember a time when I wasn’t aware of the work the Electronic Frontier Foundation was doing on behalf of all of us who care about the impact...

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to watch the most definitive record of Prince and the Revolution at their commercial peak, on one of the bigges...

Today, for about half an hour in the afternoon, pretty much every app that you might try on your iPhone would likely have crashed upon opening it. It's probabl...

There could be no more fitting remembrance of Prince than Questlove going deep into his catalog and spinning some of Prince's greatest works into a multi-hour...

(Warning: this will be upsetting; you will not want to read this if you are already stressed.) [This piece was written in late February 2020, before there wa...

Every day, millions of people rely on independent websites that are mostly created by regular people, weren't designed as mobile apps, connect deeply to cultur...

We don’t even notice it anymore — “link in bio”. It’s a pithy phrase, usually found on Instagram, which directs an audience to be aware that a pertinent web li...

Congratulations to Function with Anil Dash for being named podcast of the year! In a media landscape absolutely littered with sound-alike tech podcasts reh...

I often talk about South Asian people, or how I identify as being an American of South Asian descent. Many folks outside of our communities don’t always know t...

Even though I watched the medium of podcasting being created since its inception, I'd always resisted a little bit participating myself. I think I just felt mo...

[ CW: mental illness, self-harm ] When my depression was at its worst, it felt almost like a constant, physical pain. Getting away from that crushing weight...

There are kids now who are old enough to go fight in wars that were justified back when they still had their umbilical cords attached. For them, the attacks ar...

This week marks the 20th anniversary of this blog. I thought the best way to observe the milestone, and to try to pass along some of the benefits I’ve gained...

Playdate, the upcoming indie handheld gaming console from venerable software publisher Panic, is really important. But if you don't know the history of where t...

About seven years ago, inspired by Caterina Fake's seminal essay about fear of missing out , I wrote a bit about the Joy of Missing Out , and for a little...

With Janet Jackson's (woefully belated) acceptance into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it's well past time for a broader reckoning with her place in popular c...

Prince was an astoundingly prolific artist, releasing nearly 40 albums under his own name(s), and thousands of songs for himself and others. His concerts were...

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What if we had another 9/11, and nothing happened? Living in New York City, the one fantasy sport that everybody plays is real estate; we all like to imagine...

“You can’t say anything anymore! You can’t even make jokes!” There’s a constant complaint from people in positions of power, mostly men, who keep making the...

For the first decade after the attacks, I basically didn’t go anywhere near that part of downtown. A business meeting would take me a few blocks away, and I’d...

Forgive me, for I am about to commit gadget blogging. I've been using an iPhone X since they came out, and almost from the start my battery has charged between...

At this point, there's nothing novel about noticing that social media is often toxic and stressful. But even aside from those concerns, our social networks are...

Anything worth doing is worth doing meta. And Tom and Jerry is no exception. I've been trying to learn a bit more about the various eras of the Tom and Je...

Today's most fun new Glitch app is Record Player, which lets you upload a photo, then uses Google Cloud's Vision API to recognize the image and play it on Sp...

Tech is more important than ever, deeply affecting culture, politics and society. Given all the time we spend with our gadgets and apps, it’s essential to unde...

At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be made out of countless l...

I keep having to explain a principle I arrived at a few years ago when I realized the modern conservative movement is grounded almost entirely in a contrived s...

A few months ago, I got the wonderful opportunity to talk to Barry Ritholtz, who’s best known as a Bloomberg View columnist and for his excellent “Masters in B...

This is a spoiler-filled first set of reactions to Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The ultimate courage of what Rian Johnson has done here, is that he fully embr...

A dozen years ago, the web started to reshape itself around major companies like Google. We can understand the genesis of today’s algorithmic arms race against...

In advance of the upcoming release of The Last Jedi , excitement is building for all things Star Wars, so I’m thrilled to share that I got to be a guest on th...

I struggled for a long time when the nice folks at the Heat Rocks podcast asked me which Prince album I’d want to talk about on their show. Oliver Wang and M...

I’ve been fortunate enough to get to speak at a lot of events over the years, in front of an amazing variety of audiences around the world. But I can honestly...

A couple of times a week, I end up walking by the World Trade Center, either the new train station at the site, or one of the new malls that’s sprung up flanki...

Printers: They don’t work. Here’s my wishlist for one that might. If you’ve followed my work for any time, you know I’m fond of pointing out that printers do...

Apple spent $5 billion on a beautiful new office, Apple Park. So it’s amazing they’re about to make an extremely costly, avoidable mistake: putting their coder...

It’s always great to reconnect with old friends, and that especially holds true for old Internet friends. That must be why it was such a delight to spend some...

Developer relations and tech evangelism is one of those fields that just doesn’t get enough respect. Having done the work for years myself, I think it’s a wild...

This was so fun! I got another chance to host the Stack Overflow podcast, and this time did it in fine style with Jess Lee and Ben Halpern of the Practical D...

I was delighted to get to talk to Ben Greenman for an episode of “Dig If You Will The Podcast,” his series in honor of his book “Dig If You Will The Picture”....

In one generation, the Internet went from opening up new free markets to creating a series of Fake Markets that exploit society, without most media or politici...

With the recent availability of nearly all of Prince’s catalog on the most popular streaming services, it’s a great time to (re?)discover the breadth of Prince...

Until the Citibike bikeshare program launched here in New York City, I’d ridden a bike perhaps once in the prior twenty years. Since it launched, I ride almost...

I was delighted to get to speak with Debbie Millman for her venerable podcast, “Design Matters”. If you have an hour to spare, please do check out the conver...

Back in November, I got to sit down with the amazing Krista Tippett for a lengthy interview in front of an incredibly warm crowd in Easton, MD. Now, that int...

Jack asked us for ideas on how to fix Twitter. A coherent plan for fixing Twitter would make millions of people happier, and pick up a billion dollars in marke...

Okay, here’s the story: I’m the new CEO of Fog Creek Software ! And we have an awesome new tool called Glitch that just launched today, and you should go tr...

There are going to be endless think-pieces and armchair analyses about why America elected Donald Trump as its next President. But you already know why. Don’...

In the past, popular movements have forced major industries to confront their need for ethical reform. But today‘s media, policymakers and activists don’t yet...

OMG I can’t believe it! I got to be on my very favorite podcast, BuzzFeed’s “ Another Round “. I can verify that Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu are every bit a...

I’m skeptical about “teach the kids to code!” as a panacea for all of society’s ills. Yet today, I’m at the White House to participate in a summit on Computer...

We’ve been saying “never forget” for so long that we don’t even know why we’re saying it. At JFK airport, panic over… nothing. On the other side of the country...

The label’s become too big to be useful, and tech could suffer for it. Quick: What do an auto leasing provider, a condiment company and the producers of a...

More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have...

A technology community driven by values, not just profits. I’ve been part of the New York City tech scene for more than 15 years, from back when it was “Sili...

Red Book, Yellow Book, Green Book Stay within the lines. The Red Book There’s a specification that Phillips published in 1981 , for optical digital en...

Five years ago today I witnessed the most transcendent moment of my life. I don’t have a faith or a religion, so I’m often reluctant to describe things as “t...

Today, P.M. Dawn exists as a faded memory for most music fans, if they’re remembered at all. But Attrell Cordes made songs like nothing that came before. Beaut...

When Prince’s first greatest hits collection was released, Prince made private comments as a guide for the liner notes. Later briefly posted on his website the...

I’ve been struggling to find words to express how I feel in the week since Prince died. He’s obviously the artist that’s had the most impact on my life, and wa...

For my birthday a while back, some of you may remember I asked you all to contribute to a project to build wells to bring clean water to a village in our famil...

There are lots of conversations that I have over and over, one-at-a-time on social media like Twitter that I wish was captured more definitively. Fortunately,...

Hooray, The Force Awakens was great. Let me quickly gather some spoiler filled notes of reaction, now that it’s been a day or so since I watched it. (Do ch...

Doing my fair share for my son means I have to start carrying my weight in other areas at home. Growing up as an Indian-American son, in a family-oriented cu...

After talking to a friend about how Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You” is so romantic if you just focus on the strings, bass and vocals, I was inspired to mix d...

Last week I went and visited the memorial reflecting pools for the first time. I had been to the top of the new One World Trade Center, but had deliberately av...

In short: Tomorrow’s my birthday. I’m asking you to help me support the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and I’ll match whatever you donate through this secure fo...

Sometimes I get an idea in my head and I just can’t let it go. For a few months, I’ve heard this nagging sound in the back of my mind, asking me to revisit Am...

Everybody’s got advice on what Twitter needs to do at its current crossroads. The answer might lie in revisiting the moment they first broke geeks’ hearts....

Presidential candidate Piyush “Bobby” Jindal has said he’ll take questions over social media today. I’ve got some questions, but let’s start first with some ba...

What it’s like to have the social network of a celebrity, without actually being famous I’ve got more Twitter followers than you. I’ve got more Twitter follo...

I was incredibly honored to asked by the team at Cultivated Wit to be a judge for the latest Comedy Hack Day . (Thus becoming the first-ever returning judge!)...

Tomorrow I’m speaking at the 99U Conference , which I’m really looking forward to. But one of the reasons I’m already convinced it’s going to be a special eve...

I’m a normal guy. I don’t drink alcohol. I don’t smoke cigarettes. I don’t do any illegal drugs. I don’t drink coffee. I never graduated from college. I’ve...

If you’ve ever had someone say something nice about a thing you made, you know how great it feels. It’s a combination of validation, and respect, and recogniti...

Here’s a lesson in how software development works. Say you’d like to port a popular arcade game to your home video console. You can give a guy like Tod Frye...

I’m not prone to making grand New Year’s resolutions, but my friend Jessamyn West asked me to think a bit about what changes I’d make to my online activity, an...

Toward the end of every year, as people are thinking of making donations to charities either as an act of goodwill, or to help reduce their tax burden, or both...

Even though I’ve been having a lot of conversations recently about being a dad , the truth is that on any given day what keeps me up at night is the things I’...

There’s an oddness to working on a project that most people don’t (yet) understand. And the last year (or years!) of working on ThinkUp has definitely been p...

Today I went to MSNBC to tape an appearance on Maria Teresa Kumar’s new “Changing America” , part of the Shift lineup of shows that the network is trying out....

Hot on the heels of Vanity Fair referencing my dad-ness on Twitter comes this Daily Dot piece examining Dad Twitter . I loved this part: If that sounds...

Every single day we’re hearing about the failings of big tech companies and what they’re doing to the web. The ethical failings, the transgressions against pri...

What a delight to be interviewed by Bijan Stephens for Vanity Fair , especially as so much of the focus was on me as a dad and a person, rather than just the...

Though I was born and raised in Pennsylvania, I haven’t lived there for years. So why should anybody in the state listen to me about who to vote for as their g...

There’s been precious little documentation of the real cultural impact that the social web has had, particularly in its earliest years. So it’s exciting when p...

Graham Crackers were created to stifle the libido. Marshmallows are a sickly-sweet, cloying blob that, when properly heated, becomes a sort of confectionery na...

In my my latest piece , I wrote about an issue that’s been bugging me for a long time: Asian American men in tech don’t do enough to speak up about inclusion...

We all know tech is excluding most people from participating. But one group is actually over represented. And we’ve been conspicuously silent. The major tech...

Much of my presence on social media, especially on Twitter, is predicated on the foilbes of parenthood. “Dad Tweets” are a venerable staple of the medium, as f...

It’s always nice when an idea has a little bit of staying power. A few weeks ago, Yahoo Health featured a piece about 8 Ways to Embrace JOMO , a reference to...

This summer marked 15 years since I first started blogging here, and I’m happier than ever that I’ve chosen to live so much of my life in this place, with all...

They say the best way to see if you really understand something is to try to explain it to another person. I’ll never really understand what happened to my b...

We don’t do nearly enough to examine what it means when we perform common actions on our social networks. These aren’t just guttural, reflexive responses! Th...

0:00 — 0:10 In the summer of 1983, Wendy Melvoin was just 19 years old. She’d flown halfway across the country from Los Angeles for her first professional gi...

After at least 15 years of debating whether I should spend money on this, I recently took the plunge and acquired one of my most-desired Prince collectibles....

I’ve been trying to do more things that are unfamiliar or slightly out of my comfort zone lately. Here’s a quick roundup: I got to participate in Rhizome’s...

One of my recurrent ruminations of the last decade or so is a bit of reflection on my relationship with religion. To be clear: I don’t have one. I know there a...

My wife , in addition to being wise and kind, is generally made of sterner stuff than I am. This serves us both well, but the contrast does serve to elucidate...

All printers are 3D printers. Every device is wearable. All technology is mobile technology. And of course, this remains true: We're 30+ years int...

I forgot to mention it back in January when it happened, but I got to write my first piece for Businessweek, and there’s good news: It’s completely made up! I...

I had the chance to interview Steve Case for Social Media Week the other day, and though it was a brief conversation, I was really pleased with how it went....

We have very nice lawyers! The team over at Wilmer Hale have been very helpful to us, and it’s been nothing but a pleasant experience for us. As is typical...

I wrote a bit about why I only retweet women . As an exercise, let’s guess what stupid things I’ll hear in response! If we check off all these items, then we’...

[11:05pm] Well, that’s a wrap. It’s hard for me to say how that ranked as a New Girl episode, but it seemed the narrative of the show may have been subordina...

Upworthy is barely over two years old, and it’s among the top 50 most visited sites in the United States. But its perception among the self-involved media disc...

I’ve seen a lot of hand-wringing from techies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley saying “Why are we so hated?” now that there’s been a more vocal contingent o...

Here's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (sampled in @Beyonce 's "Flawless") offering the truth: we should all be feminists. http://t.co/uZekGPQEcL...

Here's @jbouie on how conservative desire to keep doing business in South Africa would have failed to undo Apartheid: http://t.co/HOkHYQM9kN — a...

Here's evidence of Microsoft returning to its "Import, Embrace & Extend" roots in consumer apps, with Outlook: http://t.co/PZv3wuTdo3 &mda...

Here's @pomeranian99 's "Smarter Than You Think", offering perspective on tech while justifying our time spent online: http://t.co/R9Fk...

Here's "What I'm Reading on Medium", a @medium collection that's exactly what it sounds like. You may want to follow! http://t.co/...

Here's a fun registry of derby names that lets you see if your roller derby name is unique: http://t.co/ZU0TAxNN4O — anildash (@anildash) Dece...

Here's an extraordinary first-person from [@BurningNorth](https://twitter.com/BurningNorth) about seeing 3D for the first time, thanks to Nintendo: [http:/...

Here's an incredible record of the Minneapolis sound's birth: [http://t.co/yyj1wpwhfF](http://t.co/yyj1wpwhfF) Get it for [@andrecymone](https://twitter.co...

Here's a time lapse from the International Space Station, which becomes transcendent when a comet shows up at 2:00: [http://t.co/274FQerX37](http://t.co/27...

We’ll spend three years of our lives with our thumbs on our phones. What will we have to show for it? I keep bumping up against this statistic about how much...

[This piece was originally written for CNN on the occasion of Twitter’s IPO.] The Internet is buzzing with news of Twitter’s initial public offering on Thu...

I spend so much time writing, and thinking, about technology and tech companies. And so much of it’s critical. I point the finger at how the apps and sites we...

This year’s XOXO festival exceeded its predecessor in every way. It was bigger, smarter, more challenging, more engaging and easily among the best conference...

I’m sick to death of this whole stupid topic, and fighting off a brutal chest cold, so I’m going to ask your forbearance on this piece; It’ll be a little less...

For a dozen years, I’ve been trying to document where I am relative to where I was, but this year I’m tired. I’m finding the weaponized grievances and the comm...

Today is New York City’s mayoral primary, where the two major parties select which candidate will represent the party. Due to my being on the board of the N...

First, some disclaimers: I’m writing this as I sit a few feet away from Medium’s NYC team. (I even asked them for tech support while writing this!) Ev Williams...

I’ve had the good fortune to get to speak in public hundreds of times, about any manner of subjects. But I’ve never, never had the moments following one of my...

[For context: This piece was written two years before the Apple Watch was released, when rumors began to ramp up.] A brief timeline of Apple iWatch’s entranc...

There’s been a delightful debate the last few days about how to accommodate the increasing number of people who want the experience of watching movies in publi...

I’m definitely one of those guys you’d think of as a tech nerd. I spend all day jumping on and off different social networks, I’ve got tons of followers on Twi...

There’s a great, deep story by Austin Carr in Fast Company today giving a broad overview of where Foursquare is headed , as a product and as a company. I was...

In my years working in technology, I have learned a few things. These lessons have become oft-repeated refrains when speaking to people, so I thought I’d colle...

Paul Graham on Unions : I wouldn’t quite call the high-paying union job a myth, but I think people who dwell on it are reading too much into it. The era...

2013's web bests include Digg, Flickr, RSS readers + new blogging tools from @ev & @davewiner . Wore the pants so long they're back in style! &...

One of the things I love most is meeting new people who are outside of the usual circles that I travel in, who can teach me about things that I’d never learn a...

Hello, Americans who work in the technology industry! Did you know comprehensive immigration reform is coming? This is a thing that is more important than the...

I read my friend Brendan Koerner’s The Skies Belong To Us straight through; On its surface, this is a book that tells a riveting true (not inspired-by-true...

Seven years ago, my wife Alaina Browne and I were living happily in San Francisco when she went off to NYC to visit with our friends and attend a party. By t...

I got the chance to revisit some of the themes of the Web We Lost in the broader context of how we confront our mortality and impermanence in the digital r...

Mark Zuckerberg built himself a political action committee called FWD.us , and they’re diving headfirst into trying to change immigration policy as their firs...

I lament the end of the personal CMS market; I was happy to back Ghost on Kickstarter today for the same reason that I back pretty much any effort at making...

Though it’s currently in vogue to threaten the President with ricin, the fashion when I was a younger man was to intimidate newspapers with anthrax. During tho...

When I wrote about the web we lost a few months ago, I thought the idea that we’d strayed from some of the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of the so...

Having had the good fortune to work with a broad range of entrepreneurs and get a front-row seat to the foundations of their success, I thought it’d be good to...

One of my favorite aspects of the infrastructure of the web is that the way we refer to web browsers in a technical context: User Agents. Divorced from its gee...

Every single day, almost every mainstream news source in America offers live updates throughout the day on a few metrics which have almost no meaning for most...

Update: After this post was published, I had a chance to talk about Twitter verification at a live show of the Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Project, with Hari...

Last week, I had a chance to sit down with Bill Gates as part of a small group, in a discussion focused around the release of his annual letter and the progr...

One of the weirdest things about the tech industry is that, despite its reverence for the Cult of the Coder, pretty much the only way a programmer or engineer...

In today’s Wall Street Journal there’s a detailed look at how New York City’s tech industry is looking to influence politics in the city . I’m happy to be quo...

Today, my friends at Branch announced that their fun and pretty little conversation platform is now open to the world, available for you to bring your friend...

The era of User Generated Discontent began about a decade ago, when a critical mass of people started using social apps on the web often enough that they felt...

Last week, we announced the new beta release of ThinkUp (if you’re a geek or developer, try it out!) and one of the reasons I was most excited to talk about...

Every great career in rhythm and blues leads only to heaven or hell. The path to hell is obvious: From Sam Cooke gunned down to James Brown leading a multi-sta...

(First, thanks/apologies to Andy Baio for listening to my musings on a mullet-style app strategy and coining “Mullet-platform”. It’s horrible and wonderful.)...

We have the obligation to never speak of our concerns without suggesting our solutions. I’ve been truly gratified to watch the response to The Web We Lost ov...

Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final tal...

Late on Wednesday, just as Americans were taking off for the Thanksgiving holiday, Facebook announced its intention to change the feedback process for...

Even as I was asking the Tea Party to occupy the White House’s petition website a year ago, I didn’t actually think it would happen . But people are smarter...

I don’t usually agree to participate in corporate promo videos, but Microsoft asked me to talk broadly about why writing software is still inspiring to me afte...

Anil: Just getting ready to liveblog this event. My first Apple liveblog ever. Pretty excited. 10/23/2012 4:56:26 PM Anil: Tim Coo...

When I used to fly a lot, people would ask me why I was such a big fan of Virgin America. Some of it is the usual stuff — they have wifi and power outlets, and...

Much of the conversation about the shortage of technology talent in the United States focuses on how we can encourage more young people to go to college to bec...

Most of the technology world, especially the traditional venture funding infrastructure, is justifiably proud of the extreme efficiency of modern internet star...

There are lots of different ways to measure how friendly a company is toward developers, and whether a tech company complies with the values that its developer...

Today marks the launch of The Internet Association , a laudable effort from a number of prominent Internet technology companies to address our industry’s hist...

The classic criticism that thoughtless Apple haters use against the company is that it makes products that are pretty but dumb. Usually those criticisms are by...

Yancey Strickler is co-founder of Kickstarter, the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. The Details Yancey Strickler Projects:...

Maggie Vail and Jesse Von Doom are the executive directors and cofounders of CASH Music, an open-source toolkit for helping independent musicians support thems...

Josh Reich is the CEO and co-founder of Simple, which was created to radically improve the experience of consumer banking. The Details Josh Reich C...

Jen Bekman is the founder and CEO of 20×200, a marketplace helping artists make a living by turning everyone into an art collector. The Details Jen Bekman...

Jamie Wilkinson is co-founder of VHX, a new streaming video platform helping filmmakers bypass the studio system to distribute DRM-free films directly to fans....

Evan Ratliff is a Wired journalist who became a startup founder, creating The Atavist to help longform writers profit from their own work instead of selling it...

Chris Poole is founder of two of the Internet’s most creative communities, the notorious 4chan, and Canvas, its playful image remixing cousin. The Details...

Chad Dickerson is the CEO and former CTO of Etsy, the world’s largest marketplace of handmade art and vintage finds. The Details Chad Dickerson Com...

Adam Savage is an obsessive model maker, passionate defender of maker culture, and the co-host of Mythbusters and Tested. The Details Adam Savage P...

Ron Carmel is the co-founder of 2D Boy (which created World of Goo), and partner at Indie Fund. He’s being interviewed by Jamin Warren, founder of Kill Screen...

Richard Stevens has been making Diesel Sweeties for 12 years, pioneering webcomics, experimenting with newspaper syndication, merchandising,crowdfunding and ba...

Matt Haughey’s the founder of MetaFilter, one of the web’s longest-running and most respected web communities, and its popular Q&A section, Ask MetaFilter....

Swirsky and Pajot are the directors of the Sundance-award winning documentary tracking the agony of indie game development. Interviewed by filmmaker Jason Scot...

Julia Nunes started recording ukulele covers in her dorm room for her friends at home eventually led to 50 million YouTube views, four self-published albums, a...

So, we’re going old school: I’m going to live-blog the XOXO conference! But not like “Hey I’m a writer for The Verge obsessing over an Apple keynote!” or “I’m...

The Details Emily Winfield Martin is the top seller of handmade art on Etsy, selling her dolls and illustrations and helping her fulfill her dream of creatin...

Studio Neat’s first product was the Glif, an iPhone kickstand. And their second success was the Cosmonaut, a stylus for iPhone. These were followed by Frameogr...

Dan Harmon is the Emmy-winning writer, former executive producer of Community, co-founder of Channel 101, and executive producer of Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa...

Bre Pettis is the co-founder and CEO of Makerbot, the first company to bring 3D printers to the home, and Thingiverse, the online community for sharing digital...

Yesterday, my son and I were coming back home to New York City, driving past the familiar skyline and its newest additions. Like a lot of toddlers, my boy’s ob...

Oh, there’s been lots of chatter on the Internet this week! Where all did our conversations show up? Well, I’ll tell you. Pegged to the release of Jessica...

Give $37 to build one village its well. Let’s go! » When I was a kid, I used to go and visit my cousins, just like you probably did. We’d play pickup gam...

I was very happy to see this morning that Fred Wilson had shared his thoughts on inclusivity , building off of my earlier post You Can’t Start the Revolution...

I sure do like talking to people! Here’s some recent conversations: MIT Tech Review offered up A Twitter Tweak or a Revolution in Online Discourse? as a...

Oh, hello there! I didn’t see you come in. Well, as long as you’re here, let’s look at some links around the web that I’ve found to be related to what we’ve be...

The current fashion amongst alpha geeks is to reinvent many of the building blocks of the social web. Given that I’ve been obsessed with that particular inters...

A few years ago, I wrote about the Law of Fail : Once a web community has decided to dislike a person, topic, or idea, the conversation will shift from critic...

Lots of nice responses to my plea to stop publishing web pages yesterday! Here’s some highlights: Dave Winer said I should credit him for a lot of the id...

Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused...

The other night, we had a wonderful dinner made by chef Tien Ho, who’s best known as the founding chef of Má Pêche (I got to join Ed Levine when he had the mea...

My brilliant friend Caterina Fake wrote about the Fear of Missing Out last year, and the FOMO meme took instant hold amongst those of us who love the digital...

I know I usually try to be a thoughtful tech writer, but sometimes, holy shit you guys. Twitter, because of their API, actually was a real-time protocol to...

Right now, there’s no App Store for Amazon EC2. Today’s just-announced “ Google Compute Engine ” isn’t plugged in to Google Play, the Android Music and app sto...

Congrats to Matt Mullenweg on ten years of blogging . I say it half-jokingly every time someone I know observes the decade anniversary of their blogging, but...

Today a number of folks are talking about the importance of public transit data as Apple tries to shift from Google’s historic integration of public transit...

One of the great struggles in trying to challenge racist aspects of culture is that we’ve moved from overt, obvious, overbearing racist practices to things tha...

This month’s Wired magazine includes a milestone I’m incredibly excited about: My first published print column! You can read Safe In Its Shell , my explorat...

Update: I just got off the phone with Popchips founder Keith Belling, who was sincere and contrite as he offered a thoughtful, apologetic response that indic...

If there were one lesson I’d want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I’ve said before, know y...

Update: The students did it! The re-vote from the board yielded a unanimous vote in favor of forming the Coexist club. I’m sincerely thankful to the students...

This is a long-ass post. In summary: Readability and Instapaper are two awesome reading tools that actually aren’t in competition since Readability is mostly a...

Despite his obviously profound impact on popular culture, Prince has generally not been the subject of nearly as much academic study as his peers such as Micha...

Back in 2009, I founded Expert Labs based on the idea that technology could help all of us better engage with our government and encourage policy makers to l...

On Sunday, I interviewed Nick Denton at SXSW about Gawker Media, commenting culture on the web, and a good bit of the history of professional blogging. In ad...

First, a bit of background: Blogger , Google’s venerable and pioneering blogging service was created in 1999 by a small team at Pyra Labs, as an offshoot of t...

The idea of “public space” used to be pretty simple; There were places that we all agreed would be maintained by, and for, the public good. But the past few de...

I’m an idealist. I want all governments to work in an ideal, uncorrupted state. But I’d settle for the governments which I live under to work in a way that wer...

Apropos of nothing, I’ve become somewhat obsessed of late with the evolution of Eddie Murphy’s career and persona. Some relevant links: An absolutely excep...

Considering how much conservatives and right-wing political personalities in the United States claim to hate the liberal media, it’s remarkable how much money...

This week, many of the web’s most popular sites shuttered their doors in protest of SOPA and PIPA, the pair of bills that had been winding their way through co...

A few nice conversations around the web, either in response to or inspired by what I’ve been talking about here: My favorite TechCrunch post in a long time...

About two years ago, Fred Wilson and I were talking about which startups we found interesting and I mentioned offhandedly that Foursquare was far and away th...

I’ve been infatuated with 3D printing for a few years now; the rise of (NYC’s own!) MakerBot and other startups offering simple ways to create physical objec...

Twitter’s Bootstrap framework for creating web sites and apps is the culmination of half a decade’s work by the web design community in creating CSS resets,...

I think we’ve had more debates in the past few weeks for the Republican candidates so far than are typically held in the entirety of an election season, but th...

Well, it seems like my post on how Facebook is gaslighting the web struck a nerve with a lot of folks. I have to give first priority to publishing the respon...

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users’ ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence tha...

The latest launch I’m ecstatic to share with you all: My friends at Readability (whom I advise) announced their amazing new platform ! Though it’s best know...

Today, ThinkUp is out of beta and available for free . If you have a presence on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ and know how to run a PHP/MySQL app on a web s...

Last week, I was thrilled to see the launch of Mixel . If you aren’t familiar with it, go grab the iPad app , and while it downloads, take a look at this vid...

The conventional wisdom is that the American people are too cynical, too jaded, and too burnt out on politics to ever engage with the actual governance of ou...

Andy Rooney died last night. I find myself crestfallen about this because I’d spent the last few years trying, off and on, to get in touch with him for the cha...

For a few months, those of us who care passionately about the New York City tech community have been debating the City’s Applied Sciences NYC plan, which wil...

The World Maker Faire opens in Queens this weekend, in the second annual New York City event for the formidable faire. That was perfect timing for having a c...

I took this photo on a cool spring day twenty years ago, on the day I fell in love for the first time that would last. I’d been to New York City a number of...

At the beginning of this year, I wrote a piece called if you didn’t blog it, it didn’t happen , about how your thoughts, ideas and conversations need a place...

I tried to solve the problem by leaving Silicon Valley, and writing software I believe in, and doing the best I can. For me it’s never been primarily about m...

Ten years ago, my friend Andre had been experimenting with an instant messenger bot that sent out news headlines; Up late on a Saturday night I got a message...

For the past several days, Apple’s stock has been rising high enough that the company has flitted between being the first and second most valuable company in t...

A few months ago, I had the chance to speak at the Good Experience Live conference. Gel’s been one of my favorite events for years; I’ve attended most Gels s...

Hmm, lots of interesting responses to If your website’s full of assholes, it’s your fault , and even more interesting conversation about the topic of commenti...

We’re twenty years in to this world wide web thing. Today, I myself celebrate twelve years of writing this blog. And yet those of us who love this medium, who’...

A few months ago, I introduced a blogroll on my site , making me probably the first person in more than half a decade to get excited about a blogroll. But my...

“ If you can make it here… “, Jamie Beck, 2011 It’s been 84 years since talkies began their march towards dominance over silent film. But while 1.3 billion...

A year ago, I wrote about the launch of Gourmet Live by Condé Nast. It was a fascinating project for many reasons, ranging from the fact it was bringing back...

By request , a bit of explanation of how and why I favorite things on the internet. (Or favor them. Or like them. Whatever.) First, where do I favorite? On...

It’s really gratifying to get to ruminate on things here on my blog and see echoes of those ideas the great work that other people do. Some recent bits of grat...

In the months since my son was born , I’ve struggled mightily with resisting the urge to unleash the mommyblogger that’s been lurking in my heart lo these man...

When I co-founded Activate last year, one of my goals was that, as much as possible, we’d share what we learned about helping established companies with thei...

I’ve been waiting a year for someone to write about this, but my laziness has not yet paid off, so here are a few things that we all know about everybody’s fav...

This morning, I was extraordinarily excited to get to witness Mayor Bloomberg and our city’s new Chief Digital Office Rachel Sterne unveil New York City’s “Roa...

In a remarkably fast evolution from what-if rumination on a blog to cutting-edge news dissemination, Alex Kerin’s idea last year of how to use Twitter to sha...

I know lots of people use LinkedIn and like it. It seems more like a sort of obligation for me, but I know lots of nice people who work there, so I thought I’d...

I love entrepreneurship, and I love tech startups, but sometimes I’m struck by the lack of perspective that many tech entrepreneurs have about creating a start...

Two years ago, I said that the executive branch of the U.S. federal government was the most interesting tech startup of 2009 . That optimism started to bear f...

Thirty-two years ago today, I noticed that things were odd at our pre-school. The teachers had drawn the blinds closed in a few rooms and at least one of the o...

While I’ve always liked doing a lot of my notes and writing with pen and ink, I’ve never been particularly well-versed in the latest innovations and trends in...

About a year and a half ago, I was disappointed with one of the key choices Apple had made, given that they’re often described as one of the most admired compa...

This weekend here in NYC is Transportation Camp . While I can’t make it out to what’s already sounding like it’s been an amazing event, I thought the moment m...

Please meet Malcolm Browne Dash. He’s my son, born February 9th weighing in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces. The days (and yes, the nights ) over this last week...

A few months ago, I wrote about fat pages , the unbearable burden of clutter that often makes reading on the web so much less pleasant than it ought to be. It...

One of the first questions venture capital investors ask people who make tech products and tech startups is if the entrepreneurs behind them are just trying to...

Today is Community Moderator Appreciation Day , a well-deserved moment of recognition for people who make the web more humane, more thoughtful, more helpful a...

Summary: The White House is looking to build a web community to get its questions answered, sort of their own Quora, and they’re trying to do it the right way....

Great news for the web today, some of the smartest folks I know are doing what they do best: Making the web better. Take Paul Ford’s thoughts on “ Why Wasn...

Clive Thompson’s newest Wired piece argues that the flow of short-form messages as we see on Twitter and Facebook is encouraging longer meditations in other...

Noticing a pattern here? Paul Kedrosky, Dishwashers, and How Google Eats Its Own Tail : Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyw...

Since a few people told me they found my notes on cloudtop applications useful when I posted them a few months ago, I thought I’d share some more notes in th...

Thank you to those of you who supported my bid for a board seat in the New York Tech Meetup election. Being considered amongst such talented and accomplished...

Update: Voting is now open . I’d appreciate your support. Update #2: There’s video of my platform speech at this month’s tech meetup, if you want to see a...

I love blogs. Nick Denton wrote over on Lifehacker about the pending redesign of Gawker’s blogs, with a lot of great insights into the leading edge of web pu...

Providing more evidence that blogging is something you can get better at the longer you do it, my friend Rafe Colburn put out a brilliant post the other day ou...

Recently, I’ve had the chance to talk to a lot of talented people who are working on new projects or new startups, most of which aren’t really companies yet,...

I travel often, and until relatively recently I was doing over 100,000 miles a year. I’ve cut back a lot because my jobs have changed and I felt bad about my c...

Bob Metcalfe’s most famous pronouncement is known these days as Metcalfe’s Law, the idea that the value of a network increases with the scale of its number of...

I’m quoted in today’s New York Times , talking about how politicians in this year’s election have had to confront their pasts, as shared through social networ...

Lots of nice writing out there that either replies to or references some recent posts here. Highlights: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in app store politi...

Here are some articles that have recently gotten attention amongst media obsessives. They are all fundamentally flawed: A list of the Top 25 newspapers on...

Apple took the not-very-surprising step of announcing an App Store for Mac OS X, an idea I was ruminating about earlier today in looking at all the app store...

Apple’s App Store for iOS dominates people’s perceptions whenever you mention the phrase “App Store”. But it’s actually just one member of a much larger set of...

From the list of “things I thought I’d never see”, Karl Pearson-Cater (he and I were colleagues about a decade ago) posted a great job listing at MinnPost, w...

Today, in a Wired interview about Instapaper , Marco Arment offered up: “People love information,” Arment said. “Right now in our society, we have an ob...

As ever, the best thing about blogging is the conversations it kicks off. Some nice responses to recent posts here and around the web: In a follow-up to...

There’s an odd tendency in web culture to see all features as obvious, even inevitable. While most of the artifacts of our computing experience have been inven...

For more than a decade, an intellectually bankrupt habit of maligning new media has reared its head in traditional media outlets, perpetuating a false impressi...

In my blog here, I’m mostly a textual dude. I’ve made a few little video clips or animated .gifs over the years, but basically, I’m a writer. But today, today!...

Malcolm Gladwell gets started with “The revolution will not be tweeted” in this week’s New Yorker , condemning social media’s ability to enact real cultural c...

Some great responses to, and extensions of, the things I’ve been writing about lately In response to Forking Is A Feature , Rafe Colburn offers up The cu...

The short version: Gourmet Live, the new iPad app that reimagines Gourmet as a sort of massively multiplayer magazine, is live. I’ve been working on this for t...

I stopped working at Six Apart over a year ago. At the time, I didn’t blog about it because the departure was completely amicable and I knew I wasn’t sure what...

The new Twitter is here! The new Twitter is here! Besides sowing discontent in our household by giving me access to the new user interface before my wife’s acc...

One interesting pattern I’ve noticed popping up around my favorite new apps these days is that they follow what I’d call a “cloudtop” design. I thought I’d sha...

There’s a lengthy, excellent profile of Mark Zuckerberg , and by proxy Facebook, in this week’s issue of the New Yorker, written by Jose Antonio Vargas. In it...

This year, as every year, I pause for a personal ritual of observing where I am today compared to where I was, and where we all were, on this day in 2001. I’m...

While Linus Torvalds is best known as the creator of Linux, it’s one of his more geeky creations, and the social implications of its design, that may well end...

There are some links I just keep finding myself sending around to friends and coworkers. Hmm, isn’t that what a blog is for? From back in April, a look at...

There’s been a recent re-emergence of the perennial tech industry conversation about how the venture capital industry can stop excluding women from both joinin...

Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the landmark passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and among many observances was an event at the White Hous...

In improvisational theater and comedy, one of the first rules of participation is allowing co-creation. Basically, instead of saying “No, wait!” you respond to...

Been busy running around doing a bunch of fun stuff lately; Here’s some videos with highlights! The Personal Democracy Forum invited me to talk about what...

Michael Arrington argues, over at TechCrunch, that the startup community should ignore the current administration’s entreaties for feedback on tech policy, a...

Over the past two and a half decades, the Weather Channel built itself into a $3.5 billion company on the strength of information that’s largely available for...

When there’s no time for original content, we link! These are the places I’ve popped up lately, or things that caught my eye: We published our initial res...

By unusual coincidence, this week I had a number of different folks ask me to sign NDAs about the new projects they’re working on. It’s great that we’re in suc...

Last week, Twitter announced its new advertising system , called promoted tweets. I was at Twitter’s Chirp conference as a speaker, so I got an up-close loo...

The White House tweeted that they want feedback on the Grand Challenges in science and technology that face our country. That’s not so new. But today, if you...

Just a few weeks ago I made a list of some places that I’m speaking or appearing in the coming weeks and months, and here’s an update on a few of those. I ho...

Today is Ada Lovelace Day , a wonderful idea that was started to help us celebrate our heroes in technology and science, and to identify female role models. I...

Imagine if half a million people marched on Washington, collectively broke federal law, did it in plain sight of the world’s leaders and traditional media, and...

Even more fun news! Today, I’m thrilled to announce the other big project I’ve been working on: Activate . It’s a new consultancy, founded by Michael Wolf (...

A few months ago, I started as director of “Expert Labs”: http://expertlabs.org/ , a new independent non-profit effort with the goal of improving government by...

I’m doing a number of presentations and public appearances over the next several weeks, here’s a quick chronological overview if you’d like to meet up. The...

As I write this, the Twittersphere is going through its annual love/hate paroxysms about TED . Every year, the conference seems even more an event perfect...

I’m going to be offline for a little while (some would say that last rant of mine was a sign I should have gone offline a bit sooner) so I thought I’d leave...

I’m not a Democrat; I don’t much care about the scorekeeping of who has more seats in any given chamber of Congress. But I do think there are things that need...

Just a quick roundup of some recent conversations I’ve been having around the web: Fast Company interviewed me about applying the lessons of Web 2.0 to go...

A few weeks ago when I started writing about what it’s like to be on Twitter’s suggested user list and the fact that nobody has a million followers on Twitt...

I don’t believe in life insurance. When I die, I want it to be a bad day for everybody. – Brad L. Graham, February 2002 My friend Brad L. Graham died une...

Last week, I wrote a bit about what it’s like to be on Twitter’s suggested user list . The response to that post has been really gratifying, and I wanted to s...

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, I’ll have gained another follower or two on Twitter . Within an hour, I’ll have added more followers than 99%...

Update: We’ve got some results already! Joseph Scott at Automattic mentions in the comments that he’s added RSD support for the Twitter API to WordPress.co...

A visualization of the ascent of many of the world’s youngest countries showing their independence from colonial powers (British, Portuguese, French, Spanish...

I’m here at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC today, my first big tech industry conference in a long time, where I’m also excitedly getting ready for my keynote tomorr...

I love the Internet. I love lots of things that are on the Internet. I have less love for things that want to undermine the Internet. Tim O’Reilly, The War...

Humans create the web, but we’ve largely abdicated the act of organizing web content to software. That could change. Twitter this week made its new Lists...

Update: Since this post got a lot more readers than I expected, it’s become clear to me that the title was unintentionally vague. I thought it’s amazing that...

Most of my career has been dedicated to communications, either in making tools for enabling it, or in trying to practice the art myself. My friends tend to be...

Last week, I found this picture of a group dinner at Guero’s restaurant in Austin, TX, taken during South by Southwest in 2002. At the time, most of us...

There have been another spate of interesting conversations around the tech industry about what goals a tech company should have, and how they should achieve th...

Here are some interesting recent blog posts and articles, mostly by friends or acquaintances of mine, all of which add up to an interesting narrative. Spen...

One year ago, I wrote a remembrance, as I do every year, of where I’m at compared to where I was on this day in 2001. As a New Yorker, it’s a personal ritual,...

Today brings two announcements of great import to music fans, but they’re most notable for who’s not involved: The major record labels. First, The Beatles ar...

About seven years ago, Matt Haughey, Paul Bausch and Meg Hourihan ran a very cool early blogging community called Blogroots, which acted as watercooler for con...

Michael Arrington. Dave Winer. Tim O’Reilly. Jason Calacanis. Add a few names of your own. Within the navel-gazing little corner of the tech world that I inh...

I’ve been putting a lot of speculative ideas out lately; It’s nice to see some healthy (and respectful) criticism from people who are skeptical about what I’m...

Phew! Seems like there are a ton of people talking about the topics we’ve all been discussing here lately. Here’s some highlights: Startup.gov After I pos...

I love seeing people start new companies, especially in the tech world. But I’ve probably gotten a little bit jaded about new startups, especially when the sto...

I know I just did one of these roundup posts yesterday, but there are a whole bunch of new conversations branching off of the topics I’ve been blogging about...

More great responses to some recent posts to recap, along with an interview I did a few weeks ago that seems to be pretty timely. eWeek’s Clint Boulton of...

I’ve had the privilege of being quoted or mentioned in a lot of newspapers and magazines over the years, but as an minor-league word nerd, this one ranks as am...

Google Wave is an impressive set of technologies, the kind of stunningly slick application that literally makes developers stand up and cheer . I’ve played wi...

I’ve really been enjoying the response to my recent blog posts — here are some more thoughtful replies. Rafe Colburn, one of my favorite bloggers for a decad...

From my Facebook Usernames post on June 10: July 31, 2009: MySpace announces MyAddress, a feature for providing more control over the URL where your My...

Apple is justifiably revered in the worlds of technology and culture for creating one of the most powerful brands in the world based on the combination of some...

A few more recent links/responses to posts I’ve written, collected mostly for my own future reference: Mediabistro published video excerpts of a panel I...

If you liked my post on Google’s Microsoft Moment last week, you may well enjoy Fred Vogelstein’s detailed piece in this month’s Wired. I think no small...

Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience,...

While I’m still hard at work at responding to all the requests that have been made, I had to take a moment to mark the tenth anniversary of this blog today....

Everyone claims to be at the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell: And yet, this venue has no mayor! THE BLOGOSPHERE IS FACT-CHECKING YOUR ASS, Das Racist!...

The two best quotes from Ina Fried’s interview with Bill Gates today: On advanced science: “That’s right. We’re going to make the cows that don’t fart. Y...

I’ve been told all my recent blogging has been too long and time-consuming to read. Instead, I’ll offer some quick links to the archives: TL;DR , from 200...

There have been a lot of great conversations around and about some of my recent posts; Here are some highlights. My post about Google’s Microsoft Moment seem...

I’m not sure Google’s new Chrome OS announcement is that big a deal, or that the eventual product that gets released will actually have that much impact, but...

In two weeks, I’ll be marking the 10 year anniversary of blogging on dashes.com. I’m celebrating by making a simple request: Tell me what you’d like to see me...

When I saw Malcolm Gladwell doggedly dissecting Chris Anderson’s upcoming “ Free: The Future of a Radical Price ” (see Chris’ response here ) my first rea...

Though he was arguably the most popular solo artist of all time, one of the great joys of being a serious Michael Jackson fan is that some of his best work is...

This was probably the one clip of Michael Jackson I wish everybody had seen....

Starting last week, New York Magazine asked me to participate in a roundtable conversation with NYMag’s book critic Sam Anderson, Improv Everywhere...

Jay Smooth, “ Please stop calling everyone and their mother ‘The First Rapper’ “: U-Roy may be one of rap’s predecessors, and among the influences that lai...

FAIL is over. Fail is dead. Because it marks a lack of human empathy, and signifies an absence of intellectual curiosity, it is an unacceptable response to c...

The whole world A small number of super-geeky obsessives is abuzz over the upcoming launch of Facebook Usernames , an exciting new feature that will let you...

Yesterday and early this morning, while talking about our impending move to a new apartment a few blocks away in a much bigger building (and no longer on the g...

Last week’s issue of The New Yorker attracted a lot of attention for its cover art, which was created on an iPhone by artist Jorge Colombo . From the...

For about ten years, Slate has had an intermittent series of articles that explain how to pronounce names of people who are in the news . As someone whose (fi...

Another new version of Windows is nearly upon us, as Microsoft will release Windows 7 later this year. Vista was greeted with probably a few too many jeers, wh...

If you don’t follow me on Twitter , you’ve been missing out. But fear not! I take care of my loyal blog readers as well, by offering you the highlights of the...

I have some things to share with you. Alice Marwick ‘s extraordinary keynote speech on internet celebrity from last year’s ROFLCon. It was the highlight...

Here’s the idea: We can fix the false impression that the newest gadgets are the only interesting ones by simply promoting the fact that we’re getting a lot ou...

A lot of folks seemed to like the Little Red Riding Hood video I linked to the other day, so I thought I’d reach way back into the archives (anybody still...

For the first two weeks in February, I joined my family in a trip to India. Though I was born here in the U.S., we used to go back to visit family in India pre...

Worth noting: Both independent bloggers on the web and the Associated Press are in the news this week for asking for appropriate credit for their work when it’...

John Norquist, President of the Congress for New Urbanism had an insightful observation in his recent interview with Streetsblog , where he simultaneously d...

There’s a principle in game design that’s referred to variously as rubber band or elastic artificial intelligence. While descriptions of the concept refer to...

About a decade ago, the web development industry made a decisive shift towards support for web standards . Though the effort encompassed many related efforts...

Children’s stories should clearly communicate their messages. Unambiguous, no?...

I’m a fan of The-Dream , the producer-turned-singer who was born Terius Nash and is responsible for pop gems ranging from Rihanna’s “Umbrella” to Mariah’s “To...

My friend Nick is good at answering the questions I didn’t even know I wanted to ask. For example, how many electrons per song on an iPod ? At approximate...

Those of you who liked my post the other day about not missing anything while I was offline might also enjoy a conversation I had with CBC Radio’s show Sp...

I have to admit, I was a little bit gobsmacked when I saw that our little nerd world is becoming so mainstream that Jimmy Fallon had a gadget blogger featured...

While listicles (articles that are simply lists, as cataloged on great sites like Listicles ) are often the laziest form of journalism, they can also be among...

Whoa Is (Not) Me is a site that’s a little over a year old, dedicated to defending the career and reputation of Keanu Reeves. It is distinguished from other...

When launching the new version of Amazon’s book device the Kindle , Jeff Bezos offered up the vision that the company has for the device: “Our vision is every...

I was away traveling for the past few weeks, and upon my return, I asked my Twitter followers a simple question : "I’ve been completely offline for a...

For the past few years, my tax dollars (and if you’re American, yours too) have been spent to detain dozens of men at Guantanamo Bay with a primary link used...

On and On by Janet Jackson It's literally a song about cruising down the road with the top down. Dolphin by Prince It's about reincarnating...

Imagine you’d just spent millions of dollars creating cutting-edge special effects technology, and millions more to market a re-release of a beloved movie. A...

This one’s been kicking around in my head for a while, and maybe you can all help me understand it. With any contemporary social networking site, I can control...

[T]he burger is omnipotent and irresistible. It can never be weakened. It can never be slowed down. It can never stop its ever-increasing growth in popularit...

It’s been demonstrated over and over again, but businesses refuse to learn the lesson: Homogeneity is its own punishment in the world of business. From the Wa...

A few weeks ago, I asked the people who follow my Twitter account to describe the difference between lemons and limes. My immediate prompt was because I wa...

Most people in my social circle have varying degrees of disdain towards Starbucks as a force for cultural homogenization, particularly as the company is percei...

There is, of course, no such thing as a good mashup. They exist because they must, because instrumental tracks and acapellas float freely across the web, becau...

Please (re-)visit Dan Cook’s seminal Nintendo’s Genre Innovation Strategy essay from 2005. It’s chock-full of his signature revelatory insights, in this case...

If you’d like to open up the package for your licensed copy of Microsoft Windows Vista, you only need to follow these three helpfully-illustrated steps ....

In a blog post that I wrote for work today , I had occasion to use an interrobang as part of a title. Hooray! A chance to exercise some pointless effort in...

One of my recurring fascinations is people creating works of art using common productivity software. Office Tools of Expression as a review of this medium th...

In the middle of this year, in observation of his retirement from Microsoft, I wrote Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever , one of my most popular posts...

People who are into journalism and newspapers and the web and the death of print have been all a-twitter over the NY Times story today about the triCityNews...

Thanks to a nice reminder from Ginevra , and a motivational post by Ta-Nehisi Coates , I got around to gathering up some videos I've been meaning to share....

I regularly use about a dozen different social web services, with dozens more that I have accounts on. Historically, I’ve used one of a very small number of ph...

A few weeks ago, as a surprise gift for our anniversary, my wife got us a night’s stay at the Revolving Hotel Room , part of theanyspacewhatever exhibition...

Major labels function with the assumption that 90 percent of artists they sign are going to fail — that should have been a red flag for everybody. I mean tha...

“Gollywaddles!” Solicitor General Gregory G. Garre (no seriously, his initials are “GGG”!) aspires to the title of Most Ridiculous Person In The World to...

Three years and one day ago, I got married. And then shortly after that, I wrote a post about getting married , which has become one of the most popular thing...

Sarah Palin has been unsurprising in her criticisms of Barack Obama’s credentials and policies, fulfilling the traditional role of the vice presidential candid...

I’ve long been a fan of playing the dozens , as is to be expected from anyone who loves language. Last night, in a fit of my usual insanity, I thought it’d be...

If the words I write in these blog posts are my acts of speech, then the trail of actions I leave around the web must be the body language that accompanies the...

We saw Mary J. Blige. It was like a 2-hour motivation speech interrupted by some fantastic ass-shaking songs. I laughed, I cried, I want to see it again....

I think one of the biggest reasons many great writers go into journalism is for the chance to sneak little wisecracks in, with the hope their editors will indu...

As always, I am trying to be everywhere at once. Here’s where I’ve succeeded: Dan Costa at PC Magazine offers a look at the rise of micro social networks...

One of the most frequent questions I get when I talk to people who are unfamiliar with social media on the web is, “Who writes all these blogs or Wikipedia? Wh...

Right now I am here, but soon I may be somewhere near you! Let’s see where I’ve been lately, and where I’m going to be: Across the internets, Choire asked a...

Each year, I try to write a memorial post on the anniversary, to remind myself, and as a record of where I am compared to where I was that day. As I read back...

Last Friday was my birthday. Hooray! I have a fantastic wife, so she treated me to a pig-butchering class at The Brooklyn Kitchen . I like meat, and I like...

Spin Magazine’s piece covering the rise and fall, and perhaps second rise of D’Angelo has been lingering in my mind for weeks. As you might expect, I was a f...

Today, in a surprisingly botched announcement, Google announced Chrome, their upcoming open source web browser. The subject of a Google browser is something I’...

My friend Mat Honan amused and beguiled you a few months ago with Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle . As is the course of such things, he got a book de...

Last month marked the ninth anniversary of me starting this blog, more or less continuously updating since then. As I begin my tenth year here on dashes.com, I...

I forgot to mention one point when I was blathering about lists earlier this week: The easiest way to get on them is by asserting, truthfully or not, that yo...

I’ve been a fan of The KLF since I was a teenager, and just last week was reminded of one of their most amazing stunts. This is just the first of a five-part v...

Hey, NowPublic made a list of the 50 most influential web people in New York , and I’m on it at number six. So, thanks to the folks who made the list, and I a...

Sometimes if you do something very difficult, and you do it really well, the end result is that your achievement becomes completely invisible. I mentione...

Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft’s success into a force for social responsibility....

Today Newtalk , a site dedicated to substantive political discussions, hosted a conversation asking “ Is it possible to fix government? “. In his response to...

When the Space Shuttle Discovery glided home a few days ago, one of the electronic components which made it possible was the humble Intel 8086 processor ....

One of the most satisfying and fun things I’ve ever seen in my job was the sight of my friend and coworker Michael Sippey onstage with Steve Jobs and the App...

Dedicated readers will recall me obsessing over and over-analyzing Auto-Tune in pop music earlier this year. It is, then, my pleasure to report that, than...

Trapani ventured that if the internet had been around when she was a teenager she might have felt less isolated: “I kind of wish I had the access to the inte...

I started blogging when I was 25, and it was a much smaller blogosphere back in 2000. I was able to make my mistakes in oversharing, overexposure, and unmiti...

Because my name and my big ole’ head are sitting on top of this page, it’s probably not making the self-indulgence any worse to collect a few links to some rec...

If you haven’t been following my Twitter account , you’re missing all the fun! In between going aggro on teakettles , taking an unseemly joy in crude wordpl...

Peggy Whitson is a 48-year-old biochemist who fell from space and landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan . The eight people who greeted her didn’t quite understa...

These are the things I saw yesterday that I thought were interesting, entertaining, and inspiring. First, Erika Hall , Copy as Interface . (See more on the...

While New Yorkers don’t mind correcting you, they also want to help you. In the subway or on the sidewalk, when someone asks a passerby for directions, other...

Five years ago, I said I work for Six Apart . At the time, that sort of thing was a big deal, not because of me, but because so few of us who loved blogging c...

Continuing from yesterday’s look at the soundtrack to the creation of Lotus Notes, we can look more at the physical space where it was created. For contrast,...

Early in my efforts to document the creative environment where great technology projects happen, I reached out to Ray Ozzie . Ray is of course a softw...

In the world of business, and especially the world of technology, we have some archetypical stories of entrepreneurs in the garage, working to create new produ...

The way the Métro started its life strongly influenced signage in the stations. In the early days, a number of commercial companies ran the different Métro l...

Almost five years ago, I got involved in a project that would eventually become Atom , a pair of matching standards functioning as a syndication format and a...

Having been blogging for a few years, I’ve developed a few annual traditions. This one’s a favorite: Warning you off of lame April Fool’s jokes on the web. Eve...

An application that appears cluttered or illogical is harder to understand and use. Aesthetic integrity is not a measure of how beautifully your applicatio...

People are anchored to prices, usually the first price they encounter for a specific item. This holds true even when the first price they encounter is nega...

Lupe Ontiveros (born September 17, 1942) is an American film and television actress. Ontiveros has acted in numerous films and television shows, most often p...

The big reason to make jokes is because they’re the best way to get a quick read on the collective mind of the group you’re talking to. The volume of the lau...

I want you to place the text of this blog post on your own site. But I don’t want you to do it just by copying and pasting it into your own blogging tool. I th...

I love it when technologists write about the human side of the geekery, and Giles Bowkett’s post about Ruby from a few months ago, which I just got sent a lin...

After all of the fun with the Snoop Dogg video a little while back, I figured I’d include some videos that are a bit closer to home, both from this past weeken...

Blogging’s been light because this part of March is the heart of the conference season for me, usually stretching for a few exhausting weeks on the road. My ne...

I’d forgotten to mention it yesterday, but as a number of people have asked, I had a nice little quote in the New York Times yesterday, talking about Wal-Mar...

I’ve had friends ask why I have advertising on my site; After all, it’s not like I’m gonna pay the rent with the kind of traffic that a Snoop Dogg fansite driv...

How often do you get to meet someone who’s outstanding in this field while they’re out, standing in this field? Well, good news: KICK! is back . KICK! is th...

From this New York Times story on proper use of a semicolon in subway signage: David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer who taunted police and the p...

Now, I could have gone another week on Snoop’s “Sensual Seduction”, but I was a little under the weather, and as I understand it there is a rest of the world?...

As I had guessed, I’ve already had someone threaten to unsubscribe from my blog due to the publication of this week’s Snoop Dogg research. But I’ve had twice...

Beginning with our exploration of Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction”, we wandered into the history of vocoders, talkboxes, and the most nefarious of voice manipu...

One of the things that makes Snoop’s “Sensual Seduction” video so compelling is his outstanding use of vocal effects. Let’s take a closer look, shall we? I...

Now that his single Sensual Seduction (a.k.a. Sexual Eruption) is in the Top 10, it’s official: Snoop Dogg can see the future. First, let’s pause to watch the...

One of the most useful words that I’ve been fixated on for a while is “retcon”. A portmanteaublend of “retroactive continuity”, retcon comes from the world of...

In an excellent post about Meg Whitman’s retirement , David Galbraith succinctly summarizes the most important thing about eBay’s potential: Ebay is all a...

The other day, I’d been reminded about some of the most striking statistics I’d seen last year, which were from the NYPD crime stats for 9th Precinct , where...

Okay, these are just fun — a series of custom-designed Mario levels that let the little plumber make his way through a whole level without the player ever havi...

There are a million reasons to post the video for Cameo's "Word Up", but today I am sharing this with you because it features LeVar Burton Gettin' Fu...

Christopher Hitchens, whose belligerence is barely tolerable even though he’s almost always right, covers the Iowa caucus scam ably in Slate: It’s only w...

One of my biggest passions, personally and professionally, is the concept of persuasion. Whether it’s in the form of logical arguments or emotional appeals, I’...

Theory of mind is that thing that a two-year-old lacks, which makes her think that covering her eyes means you can’t see her. It’s the thing a chimpanzee has,...

Today’s Blog of the Year Picks: Ask the Wizard and Fortuitous . Between these two blogs, there have barely been twenty posts this year. Yet either o...

Today’s Blog of the Year Picks: Some Bits: Nelson’s Weblog and RC3.org . These two are just for me, some real old-school-blogging nerd picks. Some B...

Today’s Blog of the Year Pick: Serious Eats . I love food, but I could never quite put my finger on what was wrong with the food blogs I’d tried to re...

Today’s Blog of the Year Pick: Ill Doctrine . Put simply, Jay Smooth’s Ill Doctrine is the best video blog on the web. (At least the best one that’s i...

This week, I’ll be highlighting the sites that I think stood out this year. July marked the 8th anniversary of my blog, and over these past eight and a half ye...

What It Is : ZipCar is a car sharing service, which lets you rent (or share, if you prefer) a variety of cars by the hour for a low fee that includes ev...

What It Is : LimoLiner is an executive-class bus service from New York to Boston (or vice versa) that gets you from the center of one city to the other...

What It Is: Virgin America , the latest (and greatest) low-cost, low-hassle air carrier in the United States. It’s an American corporation, though of cou...

What It Is : Mozy is an online backup service that runs in the background on your computer, continously backing up your files to Mozy’s servers. It work...

This week I figured I’d try something a little bit different. I’m not usually one for product reviews, except for talking about different websites from time to...

What It Is : The Clear card is designed for frequent travelers, to let you skip the line at airport security (You still have to go through security, of...

It looks like I wasn’t the only one having a Gawker reckoning ; A remarkable post revealed that both Emily Gould and Choire Sicha are leaving the site. (Tha...

[P]erhaps the two best examples of how [religion-based food] bans have resulted in delicious and fascinating food are Jain cooking, with its ban on anything...

I like to drink tea, either from my neighborhood tea shop or from what I brew at home, a nice cup of Darjeeling. “Darjeeling Tea” means more than you might...

From lolcats to goatse to the Zidane headbutt , I’ve been at least tenuously linked to some of the web’s most notable and notorious memes. Naturally, when...

From Paul Ford’s “ $5 Chocolate Bar “: Brooklyn has squandered the treasures she brought with her when she burst out of her father’s brain. She’s thinking,...

Many of my nerd friends are all excited about Portal , Valve’s brilliant reworking of Narbacular Drop . I’ve only played about five minutes of the game...

Google’s changed a lot in the past few years, going from underselling their efforts to shamelessly promoting themselves as leaders, even when it’s leadersh...

A few brief thoughts upon the announcement of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader: Given that even my most skeptical friends have literally been desperate for...

WordWeb, a dictionary and thesaurus program for Windows, has a startling and interesting clause in its licensing terms : You may use the program free of...

Phew! A warm welcome to my regular readers, now that I’ve had the misfortune of being visited by the worst of the rest of the web’s audience. I should have kno...

Although I’ve been accused sometimes of reflexive contrariness , the truth is I’m just pretty consistent in my assessments of technology, with little regard f...

The Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge that I wrote about a few weeks ago is almost over, and that means you only have a few days to help support the Notes fo...

I added this thing to my site (the HTML version, which most of you never see) a while back, and it’s gotten some interesting responses. I’ll reproduce it here...

I’ve been doing a good bit of speaking lately, and have some more coming up, so let me share it with you if you’re interested. I was flattered to have my...

Tom Patterson , of the U.S. National Park Service, wrote a great paper five years ago on improved realism in NPS maps . There’s some very insightful analysis...

Put these in your browser, and shake well. Facebook apps are not a long tail . So says Chris Anderson, who oughtta know. The tougher question is: Since th...

I’ve had the chance to follow Gawker Media since before it launched, really, and so it’s been interesting to see a couple of items pop up recently about the di...

I’ve seen a number of people make reference to Facebook’s application platform without knowing a lot of background about some historical examples that might be...

In his post this weekend , Rex Sorgatz points out that “mainstream media is hard”. It’s a truth I know firsthand — I used to work both in the music industry a...

We’re really close to funding music education in Cassell Elementary School in Chicago — you should contribute a couple of bucks! As MetBlogs Chicago...

I’ve gotten a lot of really good questions (and some fantastically generous donations!) about the Donors Choose blogger challenge I wrote about yesterday , bu...

I’ve been a big fan of Donors Choose for some time. It’s a charity my readers may well have heard of, which helps students in public schools by letting regul...

A.J. Jacobs, master of the year-long book stunt, spent a year trying to live by all the rules dictated in the Bible. As stunts go, it’s not that interesting to...

I get a little self-conscious about the fact that I’m so earnest on my blog sometimes, since I’m kind of a smart-ass in person. But I figure I’ll never regret...

I try not to ramble on too much about my work, except for a little “I love the people I work with!” post every few months, but I did want to point out one sati...

I’ve been wanting a portable magazine reader device for ages (everyone focuses on ebooks, but my attention span is too short) so I have to point out Texterity...

From eWeek’s “Upcoming” section, which I’d praised a few weeks ago , comes this interview with Java creator James Gosling . The key quote, for me: Of Goo...

Ranjit has made his robots play Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” , and in the comments reveals that apparently he can just throw any MIDI file at them and have it r...

Alan Leeds, one of my heroes and our greatest record of the living history of funk music, offers a warm remembrance of Bobby Byrd after Byrd’s passing last w...

The New York Times is removing the payment barrier from its TimesSelect content. Hooray! I pundified* incorrectly about this two years ago when they laun...

It’s the first year that the anniversary didn’t hang over everything I do. I’m still aware of it, I’ll always be aware of it, but time and distance and some...

One of the things I love most about my job is that sense of discovery you get from working with people that are chock-full of good ideas. One great example is...

From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language has a delightful family tree of Indo-European languages , though I was kinda miffed at the o...

A Brief Message seems interesting: Essays about design, in 200 words or less. Khoi explains some of the thinking , and the idea of a new design for each upd...

Speaking of Timberlake, that brings us inevitably to Timbaland. After the fawning over Rick Rubin in the New York Times, it’s amazing that there hasn’t been...

We know that PowerPoint can be a tool of productivity, and hopefully everyone’s embraced the idea that constraints are conducive to creativity. The next natura...

We just finished watching HBO’s broadcast of Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex tour , which I (unsurprisingly) quite enjoyed. It seems like he’s done a good...

I’d intended to post a correction to this NY Times story’s recounting of the history of blog book tours, but was pleased to see that my friend, and intermitt...

Maybe I’m just a pushover, but I felt like there was something very charming and sweet about this video of a school project that I found on YouTube. It’s a res...

One of my favorite posts that I’ve ever written was Excel Pile , about people’s propensity for using Office tools like Microsoft Excel to track mundane parts...

I found Nelson Minar’s thoughtful look at Larry Craig’s arrest to be very moving because of its deeply empathetic perspective. I find one of the things that...

What makes lolcats appealing is that it’s simultaneously obscure and accessible. It’s an inside joke told in an online lingua franca, but with a bit of effor...

I like PC Magazine, and I’ve been reading it for pretty much my whole life, but I still can’t help but think that the homepage for opinion columns contains...

Mitch Wagner has a provocative, comprehensive, and entertaining look at the recent conversations about Apple and the enterprise over at InformationWeek entitle...

Rule #1 in nerd blogging: jwz said it first. If you enjoyed The Enterprise, Apple, and Insufficient Ambition last week, you’ll want to read Jamie Zawinski...

I’ve found some nice responses to conversations I’ve had recently that are probably worth checking out. First, and most importantly, Soundwave: The Touch ,...

My fellow nerds, the moment we’ve waited more than two decades for has apparently arrived. Soundwave has arrived . He really transforms. And he really plays...

I try to keep my social network as open as possible. Here’s the thing — I’m not talking about web applications that mimic real-world behaviors. I mean the rea...

Before I crash for the night, I’d be remiss if I didn’t congratulate my incredibly talented and passionate coworkers and thank our unbelievable community....

The Premise: Anyone who creates technologies that aspire to have significant cultural or social impacts on the developed world has to focus on both our lives...

I moved back to New York City at the end of last year because of my wife’s work , and despite my love for my coworkers and the work they do. But the decisio...

Daniel Lyons, author of the heretofore-anonymous Fake Steve Jobs blog, which comments extensively on companies in the technology industry, was also the author...

In the New Yorker, Bruce Wagner tries to live my life : The performance began at two in the morning and took place in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hote...

Ryan Freitas, whose culinary wisdom I can personally vouch for, just shared some insights into his idea that designers can learn a lot from the discipline of...

An interesting infographic trend: Square blocks of color are now being used to represent percentage-based statistics instead of the traditional pie chart. Some...

I don’t know if it’s just that I went to lousy public schools, or that the xenophobic maniacs who resent the common ideals of humanity were successful in their...

If you’re in NYC, you should join me, and my friends from Serious Eats , A Hamburger Today , and Gothamist for the Burger Bash at Water Taxi Beach tomorr...

Behold, It’s (K)not Wood . I hestiate to make such a bold prediction, but it just may be the best blog dedicated to fake wood and woodgrain that you’ll see to...

If you’ve been on the Internet at all in the past, oh, ten years, you’ll have seen the ad for Classmates.com that features an improbable matrimonial matchu...

I often lament the lack of perspective in tech reporting, so it’s always a delight to find a story that typifies what I’d hope technology reporting could be...

Since everyone’s sending it to me, I’ll post the prescient Onion video from last week. The highlight, for me, is two minutes into the clip. Breaking News: A...

Armin Wagner’s created a brilliant collection entitled Crates and Barrels , cataloguing the ubiquity of these containers in video game culture. Though they’re...

In 1992, Brian Springer spent over 500 hours capturing direct satellite feeds of the video clips that powered both news broadcasts and that year’s presidenti...

Nedroid recently got challenged to draw 200 Bad Comics . You can see the results for yourself , and to paraphrase Run-DMC these aren’t bad meaning “bad...

Had enough of Powers of 10 ? Then check out Universcale , a site that’s a promo for Nikon, but also features some compelling and wonderful illustrations of t...

Kevin Werbach , internet gadfly and all-around nice guy, wrote a student Note in the Harvard Law Review entitled Looking It Up: The Supreme Court’s Use of Di...

The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) winners for 2007 have been posted on BusinessWeek’s site. There are all of the usual slideshows and essays...

In the New York Times, Jon Pareles gets it exactly right : Prince’s priorities are obvious. The main one is getting his music to an audience, whether it’s...

Dunstan Orchard is a really nice, talented (and attractive!) man who is a terrific designer. But he has no sense of taste . Discuss....

Former New Yorker Joshua Schachter’s captured his New York Essentials , the short list of places you can’t afford to miss when visiting NYC. Every single one...

Rives is a charming spoken-word artist whom I had the chance to befriend before I spoke at Taste3 this year. He’s got a true gift for speaking to an audien...

Two of the posts I’m most proud of having written last year are Making Something Meaningful and How do we judge our tools? . It looks like the sentiment beh...

From the “OMG!” files, a humpback whale giving a piggyback (?) ride to a dolphin . I am just patting myself on the back for avoiding any “blowhole” joke...

Over at HipHopMusic.com, which Jay Smooth has relaunched as a group blog, Brandon Soderberg offers When They Reminisce Over Mixtapes . The same industry that...

Pentagram, the designers of the website, signage, marketing materials, and stationery for the new New York Times building , have a fascinating blog post...

Reflecting on toread is tobehuman : Dave Coustan says , “I use [this is good] to mark things I find particularly excellent.” Me too. Heh. And Ed Kohle...

John Scalzi shares a gem and kicks off a predictably stupid comment thread, based on an overheard coversation: “The problem with using the Web as a model for...

Did I say two three’s a trend ? I forgot to mention the guy who started it all, both this month and in the last century, too: Michael Sippey’s blogging again...

Accidental Blogger captures Discover magazine’s list of The 7 Most Wondrous Moments in Science . The entire post is worth a read, but the featured list is:...

Andre Torrez : “My little experiment in tossing links out of the main blog didn’t work out so hot. I like linking things, but I don’t like the lazy feeling...

From Mike’s Cruftbox, Bud Light + Clamato = Chelada , a recent and spectacularly gross bit of research from Cruft Labs. Meanwhile, Skot’s Izzle Pfaff offers...

Didja like the series of posts on How to Visit New York City ? Then you might want to check these out: Mark Dominus has a lengthy, well-considered view...

Formidable geeks Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle have led a team of nerds to create Open Library , which purports to be the start of a library of every book i...

In technology, one of the best ideas to emerge from the world of social software is the ability to tag other people’s works and creations for our own reference...

Before it was called Firefox, or Firebird, Mozilla’s lightweight browser was known as Phoenix. An appropriate name, given than it rose from the ashes of Netsca...

I’ve been holding off on updates about lolcats and related memes for a while because it’s easy to get burned out and probably as boring for you as it is for me...

As I’ve been sharing my opinions about how to visit New York this week, I’ve been lucky enough to get some great responses from other people on the web, and to...

Okay, this is the one that’s going to get me in the most trouble: A list of the famous tourist attractions that you can safely skip when you come to New York C...

South Asians with blood disorders only have a 1 in 20,000 chance of finding compatible marrow donors, in part due to the fact that less than 1% of those regist...

I get asked by a lot of people for tips on what to do when visiting New York City, and though I’m hardly an expert on NYC tourism, I thought I’d take the time...

After yesterday’s look at the basics of visting New York City , it’s time to move on to some more ambitious, and more contentious, topics. I’m going to start...

I was very flattered and a little bit surprised to be interviewed by Claire Zulkey for her site. I’m a fair bit geekier than most of her regular interviewees...

Bottled water in America is generally less healthy than tap water, extraordinarily more expensive, and far more destructive to the environment. It’s something...

Michael Blim summarizes the news from the Supreme Court over on 3quarksdaily; I wish this had gotten the coverage that the iPhone did, or even that people were...

Back in 2001, I got laid off from a job right around the same time as Sam Brown, the creator of Exploding Dog . Over the course of that year, as I looked for...

As much as we like to blame the RIAA for all the evils of the recording industry, leave it to my man Prince to bring out the best in the execs over in the U.K....

Corey Spring has broken the details of a story that no one in traditional journalism had figured out yet. Wrestler Chris Benoit’s murder-suicide seemed to ha...

There’s no better link-bait than science fiction where you’re one of the characters. See Kevin Fanning’s “ How Everything Turned Out ” in The Morning News. O...

There’s been a (mostly boring) conversation going between some blogs over the past few days regarding the line between editorial and advertising. Largely, this...

The gist: A lighthearted unscientific poll that was created as a PR ploy for a tech company is quickly evolving into a “real” news story, being treated as fa...

Following up on Indian Mango Alert Level: Orangish-Green and A Matter of National Security , some data points: The national flag of India has stripes...

As I was reveling in earlier , Indian mangoes are coming to the United States. As I mentioned in my last post, Indian mangoes had essentially been off-limits...

Indian mangoes have arrived in the U.S. for the first time, and for me, my family, and my friends, this is a big freaking deal . I’ve got a lot to say a...

This one’s sublime: “ What’s your favorite kitchen sound? ” This one’s the truth, finally. The most eloquent dismissal of User Generated Discontent (or in...

I’m happy for my friends at FeedBurner , who’ve finally announced their acquisition by the Big G. I do have to confess that this marks the point where I’m off...

So, now that all the non-DRMed songs from the iTunes store will have your name embedded in them after download, how long until every illegally downloaded son...

Sadly, MichaelJacksonForSale.com does not actually let you purchase the King of Pop for your very own. However, it does have lots of interesting memorabili...

If you have the particularly first-world American problem of trying to find your way Europe, and then, say needing a place to stay while in Paris, don’t worry:...

Ten years ago, then-Microsoft fontographer Vincent Connare launched the Comic Sans Cafe . During 1994 I noticed that a large number of cartoon/comic style...

One of the nice things about independent web entrepreneurs is that they (we?) can draw contrasts against those who are giant publicly-traded faceless corporati...

Following up on Cats, Comics and Closure , Meowchat and PetSpeak (which, surprisingly, came up during a panel on race and class on Friday), and of course...

I’m at the Personal Democracy Forum here in New York City today, and considering how many technology-related events I go to, I’m surprised that this one alre...

Last year, when I wrote Draw the Map, Draw the World about the New York City subway map and Massimo Vignelli, one of the signature designers in the map’s his...

When Matt Haughey first described his new site Fortuitous , which just launched two weeks ago, I was particularly excited because this is a new blog tha...

More people know how to crack the encryption on HD-DVD disks than own HD-DVD players....

As it turns out, there’s more to say about kitty pidgin , and thanks to all of those who’ve emailed and commented with additional links. First, a great exam...

Pidgin , formerly GAIM, is the best instant messaging client available; It works with all common IM networks, supports extensions and customizations through p...

Wow, you kids really like overanalysis of imaginary pet languages, huh? The best thing about writing Cats Can Has Grammar has been the responses. Mat...

If you spend any time at all observing net culture, then you’ll have been unable to miss the recent explosion in popularity of lolcats . This relatively recen...

Though I’ve been familiar with the terms for years, I wasn’t sure of the exact differences between a pidgin and a creole. So: A creole is the combination...

I found some really interesting responses to the launch of Google Web History that are all well worth visiting. CNET’s Margaret Kane has a roundup of ne...

Many years ago, when the web was a simpler place, one of the scariest monsters conjured up to describe the privacy threats that lurked on the Internet was the...

Following up on the conversation about accountability, january one discusses the dark side of blogging from the perspective of the knitting blog community....

Ask and you shall receive . Armin Vit delivers one of his inimitable logo critiques for the new MSNBC branding effort. I do have to say I support the use of...

Five years ago, I got my first death threat for something I wrote on my blog. The same week, some of those readers called my boss and tried to get me fired. A...

Are you in New York for the PodCamp NYC conference ? Well, I’ll be there representing Six Apart and if you’re podcasting with Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJourn...

A little while ago, my friend Michael Sippey, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing the other day , sent me a link to the new Google Voice Local Search ....

Hmm, MSNBC gets a brand-new logo, presumably as part of the new “spectrum” campaign they’re doing, and yet Brand New has no review of it! The shame! It l...

A couple of months ago, I got to talk to Lynne about business blogging for Fast Company’s podcasts series . I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, though...

Infographics and Peanut Butter week at dashes.com continues, this time with a terrific set of pie charts from Craig Robinson. You might know Craig as creat...

Details offers a lengthy and fairly credible interview with Justin Timberlake : Timberlake is not a kiss-ass. Selling more than 13 million records has e...

“ The PB&J diagram has to be the most important food related item I have ever seen on the web. ” Today’s National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, and...

Sasha Frere-Jones bears witness to Prince’s ageless funk in this week’s New Yorker. As much as I admire Prince’s gifts, it’s Sasha’s job I want....

Because it’s still relevant, and people enjoyed it so much last year, I call your attention to Your April Fool’s Joke Sucks , from a year ago. Let’s revisit:...

One of the reasons I admire my friend Mena is that she is remarkably prescient. I think it’s worth revisiting these posts that she wrote a year and a half ago....

I’ve found some interesting articles around the web recently that mention me or my blog, and while I don’t try to be comprehensive in linking to everything tha...

So, we talked about Gershwin’s work in inspiring the Rhythm Changes , but his signature work is, of course, Rhapsody in Blue. One of my favorite recent finds...

Nate Harrison’s 2004 documentary Can I Get an Amen? on the “Amen Break”, uncovers the story behind one of the seminal breaks of the electronica/jungle/drum...

This is one of those “how to market a product effectively” examples that’s been kicking around in my brain for a while, I thought I’d share it. About half a de...

The exact thing you are looking for is out there on the Internet, if you just know where to look. So here are some hints. Making the connection between Gi...

I’ve been amused for weeks by 37signals marketing for their upcoming micro-CRM app Highrise because of the example contacts they’ve been using. Every...

It’s not the funniest joke in the world, but I’m very proud to have a tradition on my blog that is in its 8th annual incarnation, so here goes again: It’s the...

Always trust the guys at The Smoking Gun to ferret out the good stuff. “ Thanks CBS for turning my son GAY. ” This, of course, is the substance of one of the...

Do you want links? Because I’ll give you some damn links, I’m not afraid of you! I’m not afraid of NOBODY! Reyhan Harmanci on the third wave of academic s...

I would just like to say thank you to all of you for supporting my site for almost 8 years now. This is an unbelievable honor....

When I first heard that Kevin Shay was working on a novel, it struck me as a little bit unfair. I know Kevin from his work with Movable Type ; as we said o...

I grew up in Pennsylvania, where they still observe the fake holiday “Flag Day”. That’s even lower than Arbor Day. So I’m quite pleased that someone is observi...

I was very flattered last week that GeekSugar post an interview with me and my wife Alaina that they did a few weeks ago. It’s strange enough to be asked to...

A few months ago, I spent a lot of time trying to show the tech community I belong to that diversity is essential to our survival . Not just to the Web 2.0 wo...

Do you want to learn about the future of web applications? If so, when choosing an event, you might want to make sure it’s one that cares about including speak...

This weekend, I’m making my first trip to Vancouver (and my first trip to Canada in over 3 years) to speak at the Northern Voice 2007 blogging conference. I’...

Here’s some examples of how graphic artists are trying to save people’s lives. Prince Pickles is the manga-style cartoon character who represents Japanese...

One of the goals a lot of people have when they become entrepreneurs is to have “fuck you” money: Enough personal wealth to be able to say “fuck you” to whomev...

There’s no shortage of animosity towards the mainstream record industry from its customer base, but the RIAA’s thug mentality’s become brutally obvious of late...

Sure, Microsoft Word is fine for kids who want to write papers for school, but serious professionals should be very worried about using this dangerous tool!...

I hate the abbreviation “MSM”. It’s almost always used by those who are lacking in perspective. We’re all either too lazy to actually differentiate between the...

I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying the conversation inspired by Marshall Kirkpatrick’s TechCrunch post about tech companies hiring well-known bloggers to he...

Rip, Mix, and Burn? It’s not new. Contrafact is what they called sampling before there was sampling. You take the chords from a song that the whole band know...

The sign of success in social software is when your community does something you didn’t expect. It’s easy to be cynical about new sites, especially when...

Okay, these are the links you should be reading on the Internet today. A smart diagram is the new clever writing : LeisureArts charts out my favorite snow...

A couple Clay Shirky links for you today, one of which I just linked to, one of which I should have linked to last week, and all worth reading. In D...

Background: Yahoo’s launched an interesting and innovative new service, Pipes, which lets users with a relatively low degree of technological expertise c...

Since I’ve already been described as a Microsoft apologist, despite creating delightful little films to mock their products, I might as well point out someth...

I talk a lot about set theory when explaining things to people. (“Who reads my blog? Imagine the intersection of the set of funk music fans and Microsoft O...

Most everybody who knows me well knows that I’ve been a fan of Prince for pretty much my entire life. So when casual fans or non-fans hear that Prince is playi...

How could I still give a damn about blogs, about the web, after all day, every day for eight years or so? Well, how could I not ? Let me show you what it look...

Last night, I had the chance to attend the WNBC New York City Bloggers’ Summit . I’ve got a lot of different opinions on the event, some positive and some mor...

I’ve seen a lot of weird, very belated, hand-wringing about Flickr requiring early adopter users to sign in with their Yahoo accounts. This is prompted, I unde...

Gen has captured the cost of monoculture with his excellent look at the unfortunate result of some technology choices made in South Korea years ago: This...

Here are the things to look at on the Internet today. India’s President, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, asks Yahoo Answers, “ What should we do to free our planet fr...

This morning, I had the opportunity to speak to the Northern California Grantmakers’ meeting , which was a fantastic chance for me to speak to a group of peop...

Last time, a rumination on video quality. Today, a look at [Ze Frank going Hollywood]( http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=14010&ic=The Transom &quo...

Wait, remember when I said that Zolt Levay has the coolest job in the world , making images from Hubble data? Scratch that, now Mike Massee at XCOR Aerospace...

Because this came up at work today, I’ll repost a link to Pop Culture Addict’s look at Grimace , the terrifying/cuddly McDonald’s mascot-blob. The key point...

Mike at Techdirt (that’s the popular tech news blog which actually deserves its popularity) mentions that Sony is now rewriting history , trying to take cre...

Picture Terry Semel holding a little lion cub up in the air with both arms extended. What’s that? It’s the Circle of Life! Well, maybe Circle of Life 2.0? Okay...

The folks at Cranky Geeks have just put up a new episode of the show , though it was actually taped a while ago and was the first episode I ever participated...

I found Frank Hilario’s rant entitled Microsoft’s Mr Bill Gates And The Boy Who Cried Worp to be largely incoherent, but from what I could deduce, he thinks...

A few years ago, I wrote a post called Portalization which showed a Yahoo homepage screenshot with certain services grayed-out, as an indicator of which corr...

From Ron Liecty’s rumination on developer evangelism on Nokia’s site, “Microsoft apologist Anil Dash, in ComputerWorld’s Jan 9th article, said Microsoft’s op...

These are the things you ought to look at today: Real Empires Ship . I could link to Paul Ford’s Ftrain every day and never tire of it. The Romans w...

My iTunes library, of about 12,000 songs consisting of 60GB of data, got corrupted today. The MP3 files themselves are okay, but all of the metadata is blown a...

Those who know me know that I’m pretty much inept at any kind of artistic endeavor. Which makes it all the more amusing that I’ve recently had the chance to pr...

One of my favorite parts of my job is getting to write posts for some of our dozens of company-run blogs. I’m particularly pleased with two that went up today:...

Sure, everybody’s linking to Ironic Sans’ (admittedly entertaining) Celebrity Patents , since Waxy pointed them out, but did you know Prince actually has a...

Every four to six months, Stewart Butterfield updates his website, whether the Internet is ready or not. This time, Sylloge ruminates on John Adams’ thoughts...

Another great Wall Street Journal online debate: Is ‘Web 2.0’ Another Bubble? David Hornik and Todd Dagres’ excellent back-and-forth was unfortunately oversh...

I wanted you to read this thread on Stripper Web (you know, the community site for strippers?) where the women share stories of farting on their customers. A...

There’s a fascinating conversation taking place across a couple of blogs, which Steven’s post on leaving Brooklyn alterted me to. Douglas Rushkoff was mugge...

Adults take note : You may wish to not open the box around your children if they may be frightened by a box with a decapitated horse inside. …I probably di...

It’s almost like all I do is talk about blogging all day. Debbie Weil hosts the Corporate Blogging show on VoiceAmerica’s business channel, and the other day w...

After seeing the lists made by a number of friends , I thought it’d be fun to post my own record of the cities I visited in 2006. I believe the canonical ru...

I’d explained how to kill a personality a few weeks ago. Perhaps I was too pessimistic when I said, “[W]hat I see right now is the depressing reality that ev...

In case it isn’t obvious enough by now, contemporary newspapers should be thinking of information presentation in the context of applications, not just as docu...

A good friend of mine asked for some tips the other day on dealing with minor depression. I’d mentioned managing mental illness a few years ago on my blog, a...

Andy Plesser of Beet.TV stopped by our offices at Six Apart a few weeks ago, and I had the chance to talk to him for a few minutes. Andy recorded the conversat...

I’m on Cranky Geeks again tomorrow. Usually I cringe a little seeing myself on these things, but I think this time around we all acquitted ourselves ra...

To those of us who grew up after his artistic heyday, James Brown is some combination of legend, influence, icon, and inevitably, caricature. So on the day we...

Over on Serious Eats, 30 Days of Pork . Amanda’s project makes so much sense to me. Just one of the highlights of an all-pork day on the site. I should have o...

About a month ago, Fortune ‘s Jeffrey O’Brien interviewed Seagate CEO Bill Watkins , and pulled the conversation’s most memorable quote for the headline: “Le...

Okay, I’ve been mumbling about the threat of monoculture for months now, but what’s really gratifying is how much attention the idea has gotten in many of th...

Summary: Earlier this year, I said that Office 2007 is the bravest upgrade ever, and the reason was simple: The audacity of introducing a radical new user in...

Remember a few years ago I mentioned that I was moving to San Francisco ? Well, it’s time for an update: I’m moving back to New York City! There’s a cou...

Well, technically, Zoltan Levay has the coolest job out of this world. Mr. Levay is the Imaging Resource Lead at the Space Telescope Science Institute ‘s O...

Background: I once wore a funny t-shirt for a photo that appeared in the New York Times, and a bunch of people thought it was kind of amusing, albeit juv...

Jason describes the blog commentor’s gaze , a rumination on how people who act unreasonably on the web fit some parts of the scientific definition of a psyc...

A few days ago, I foolishly described a table of my blog archives as my favorite view of my blog . As with all posts that I only spend 30 seconds writing, it...

Summary: In 2002, Google launched one of their few pay services, Google Answers . The service attracted only 800 responders in the past 4 years, and was sh...

If you were interested in How Matt Haughey beat Google with Ask MetaFilter, you might enjoy some more information about the site. The Chicago Tribune’s S...

From the New York Times story about Stallone’s new Rocky Balboa , Peter Sealey, who is a former film exec-turned-marketing prof a UC Berkeley, offers: I...

I’ve learned some great insights into human nature from spending a lot of time interacting with people on the web. You know how, whenever they interview a seri...

One of the great things about having been a blogger for a long time is that I can present my old posts in interesting ways. I’ve been experimenting with a big...

When we were unpacking the delightful Nintendo Wii a few weeks ago, I was marvelling at how well-thought-out the process was. Beautiful, pleasant, and of cou...

Now, I will outline a series of hypertext links, offer brief descriptions of the content to be found at those sites, explain why you might want to visit, and t...

Another follow-up to blood diamonds : The New York Times offers Hollywood’s Multifaceted Cause du Jour , Marc Santora’s look at Hollywood’s engagement in the...

I don’t ever know how to respond politely when declining a drink without sounding like either a religious teetotaler or a recovering alcoholic (I’m neither) so...

Rex has compiled a fantastic list of the Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading . I’m flattered to be mentioned as a see-also suggestion, but most...

Those who know me well know that I never really loved being in a classroom while I was in school; The whole experience, combined with my own lack of discipline...

I don’t know exactly what the significance of this realization is to me, but I thought I’d share. The debate between Robert Scoble and Dave Winer about Micro...

Four years ago, I didn’t know anything about diamonds. Then I posted one ill-tempered rant about how annoying and even offensive I found the advertising for th...

One of the most common questions I get from people who know about Six Apart is “What the hell do you actually do there?” These days, that question’s easier...

The Nintendo Wii is an amazing and magical device that, for the last week, has left my heart full of joy and my sad geeky arm sore and full of pain. But perh...

There weren’t a whole lot of really new things announced at the Web 2.0 conference, mostly large companies saying what you’d expect. But one of the launches...

I’ve been ruminating about radio a lot lately (more on that later), but one of the most pleasant radio discoveries of late has been XM Radio’s 80s and 90...

So maybe Gracenote (formerly CDDB) isn’t evil after all ? I love anything that challenges the conventional wisdom, especially when someone’s gotten a bad...

Microsoft has just launched the Zune , which will be one of the most popular digital music players ever made, and could have been considered a wild s...

Hey, how many companies let you make macaca jokes and say whatever stupid thing you want on their official website? Well, my employer does ! Check out the po...

Update: The fellow who asked the question actually doesn’t want to participate in the lawsuit against Cohen. Wonders never cease! On Ask MetaFilter a m...

Features that didn’t make the cut for Windows Vista. For those of you who already think I’m too much of a Microsoft fanboy, check out the list. My favorite i...

Erin McKean , frock star and lexicographer, offers some wisdom : You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co...

Earlier this year, the New York Philharmonic started distributing some recordings of their works through the iTunes music store. On its own, that’s not a par...

Windows Vista’s astoundingly long beta period is winding down (they just sent out the “what did you think of the beta?” surveys to testers), which means a whol...

Interested in the pre-history of the coolest bounty hunter in the Star Wars universe? The Birth of Boba Fett chronicles some fascinating backstory, including...

One of the great, definitive abbreviations for the social web is TL;DR. It stands for too long; didn’t read , and epitomizes the short-attention-span crowd, t...

Some say the story of people Googling random phrases is the story of America . Other disagree. So what, then, is the story of America? Captain Kirk’s st...

As part of my continuing quest to create as many posts as possible with as little original content as possible, let’s take another look at my revisitation of...

Sometimes I just can’t resist amusing myself when talking in a public forum. My wife recently got a MacBook, which marks the first time I’ve ever had a Mac in...

I’m not much of a sports fan, much less a student of sports journalism. But I know petty bitchiness when I see it, and I figure it’s worth identifying its trai...

A month ago, I began a series of posts outlining some common themes: Any system faces danger when it becomes a monoculture Diversity offers many broad-ra...

On our last episode, we revisited Dan Geer’s analysis of software monoculture . Let’s switch back to true biological monocultures again. Monoculture Consider...

Three years ago, Dan Geer led a team of security experts in authoring a paper about the threat of a software monoculture. The paper, entitled “ CyberInsecurity...

The upcoming release of Steven Johnson ‘s The Ghost Map served as a useful prompt for Steven’s list of the best books about plagues in the Wall St...

What’s your musical horoscope?� (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)� Inspired by Stephanie. � Read more on...

I’d mentioned that talking to regular people about the potential of blogging is one of my favorite parts of my job, and that’s probably reason enough to paus...

Last week I got a chance to talk to a number of people at a Legal Marketing Association event . If you’re not a lawyer, or if you are a Web 2.0 geek, that p...

It’s worth taking the time to really enjoy this amazing recounting of an effort to duplicate the recipe for Patsy’s pizza. It’s great for a few reasons: Go...

1. Avoided Destiny offers MP3s of most Mario Bros themes, including the Starman/Invincibility theme. I’d been looking for this for some time, and The Mushro...

When I was about 8 or 9 years old, I got to go to a conference on soil mechanics. It’s not as bad as it sounds; My dad has a PhD in soil mechanics, so I le...

A few weeks ago, I’d noted a Globe and Mail story that described Excel expertise as if it were a new fashion trend. That tickled my fancy, and I think the...

A little over a year ago, I wrote a post called Web Development Trends for 2006 . It was designed to be a forward-thinking view, not just at what technologies...

There’s been a lot of interesting writing about the evolution of the newspaper industry lately, especially in the face of the rising popularity of social media...

In 2001, I checked in with everyone on the morning of the attacks , and then again that night before I finally went to bed . In 2002, I reflected on what...

… let’s hear more about me! I had the chance a few weeks ago to do be interviewed by Leah Peterson . It was a nice chance to talk about some things that I don...

The Sunday New York Times ran a fantastic article by Alex Mindlin, Win, Lose, Draw: The Great Subway Map Wars that details a battle that has brewed, off and...

Okay, you probably don’t need to be told that spam is bad. But you might find it interesting to learn about the economy that’s sprung up around blog spam. Good...

Today’s my birthday! And I’m hoping you’ll do me a favor on my birthday: Donate to a good cause, and with a good reason. You see, my sister in law Jennif...

There are lots of different corners of the web, most of which have the good graces to be supportive and interesting and to act like, well, a community . Peopl...

There’s been a great hue and cry about the debate over the definition of the word “planet”, and Pluto’s recent change in status. Frankly, I think the whole...

A little more than two decades ago, popular music was under fire by Tipper Gore’s PMRC, the Parents’ Music Resource Center . Tipper was aghast at popular musi...

Okay, last Google Office post, honest. A roundup of some of the feedback on my post about Google Apps for Your Domain : Update: Okay, here’s one more link...

I launched a new design for my blog about two weeks ago, but I’d been waiting until I had a chance to shake out a few of the more egregious bugs to mention the...

As part of all-Office day, I should mention that I’ll be speaking at the Office 2.0 Conference on October 11-12 here in San Francisco. If you know me, yo...

The first version of Google Apps for Your Domain has been released, offering hosted applications that provide free, ad-supported services including email, c...

It’s an all-Office day today. The Globe and Mail embraces the bad pun with “ Stressed? Busy? Excel-erate your life “. Tralee Pearce amusingly asserts that “The...

In describing Google Apps for Your Domain as “Google Office”, I was somewhat deliberately making reference to all the conversations that have happened in the...

Lisey’s post about geeking out in Excel had the world’s most perfectly-targeted banner ads: � Read more on Vox...

This is the third post in a series where I’m pointing out some nice little touches that take up less than a 100×100 pixel square on a screen. Today’s is from t...

“ Two of the most financially successful Web 2.0 personalities … are rooting for the financial failure of their competitors. ” Hmm. I tend to root for the su...

This is the second post in a series where I’m pointing out some nice little touches that take up less than a 100×100 pixel square on a screen. Today’s is the...

Whitney Houston, insane former pop star and provider of bail for Bobby Brown, is a remarkable woman. No, not because her most successful song was spun out from...

This is the first post in a series where I’m pointing out some nice little touches that take up less than a 100×100 pixel square on a screen. Today’s is the N...

It’s uncanny how well Pandora knows my truest feelings. � Read more on Vox...

We’ve documented the gross behavior of our dog, as well as the aftermath, which included having to clean things up. What’s the grossest thing you’ve ever go...

We’ve got another chance for the mainsream press to either laud or dismiss blogs, and I’m curious to see how it turns out. The thing to note is that, for these...

One of the interesting things about being a serious Windows user is that very little attention is paid to efficient users of Windows, and that we suffer from a...

What horrifically entertaining punchline finishes this Family Circus take-off at the Perry Bible Fellowship ? You’ll just have to click through and find...

Slate takes a spoiler-filled look at Will Ferrell’s Talladega Nights . We enjoyed the movie, and it’s consistently funny, but the thing that really struck m...

From Overheard in New York , one of my all-time favorite blogs, an anecdote from tourist season . It’s funny because it’s true !...

Nobody complains better than New Yorkers, as evidenced by this wonderful series of letters lovingly scanned and presented by the Times a few weeks ago....

Over at Threadless, “ Hooray Cholesterol! ” I particularly enjoyed the chainsaw-wielding cupcake....

At Ask MetaFilter, a question I’ve been pondering for some time: Where is Water War I going to happen ? The answers thus far are uncharacteristically lame for...

There’s been lots of discussion over Microsoft’s pretty decent desktop blogging client, Windows Live Writer. A Seattle Post-Intelligencer story that I was qu...

Vox asks lots of personal questions. Today: � Read more on Vox...

Some links to celebrate Flash’s 10th anniversary. 10th anniversary of Flash Wired story on Flash turning 10 John Gay’s history of Flash Mike C...

Way back long ago, when the Internet was still in black-and-white, I read Jamie Zawinski’s report of a fire in a tire warehouse across the street from where...

I’m flattered, somewhat amazed, and more than a little amused to point out that I’m part of Time Shares , a series of online exhibitions presented by R...

Ned Lamont was undoubtedly helped by his supporters’ web efforts in his defeat of Joe Lieberman in yesterday’s primary. Lieberman’s team was especially incompe...

So The Manual ‘s been written for music, but a how-to manual hasn’t been written for blogging yet. The closest thing is Rebecca Blood’s Weblog Handbook , whi...

For a long time, I’ve been enamored of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. There’s a lot of reasons, from their music to their various art projects and media hacks....

There’s been an interesting wave of news since my anti-Wikipedia roundup recently, most notably Jimmy Wales’ comments about the evolution of the community...

I had the chance to interview Paul Lindner about Gopher on the Six Apart site, and his answers were fantastic. In case you can’t tell I’m a Gopher fanboy, it...

As has been evidenced before , I sometimes wonder strange things about celebrities. So, part two in the series: Do you think Michael Winslow resents Rahzel?...

John Dvorak examines incidental online communities , as opposed to explicit social communities like Friendster. There’s some nice praise for MetaFilter in t...

One of the most obscure keyboard shortcuts in Windows, Shift+F8 has magical powers. Thanks to Andre for this completely useless pointer....

I love YouTube, but there’s something you need to understand: YouTube just stomps around, recklessly murdering innocent bystanders. The latest casualties? Jo...

You want links? You got links. Seth Stevenson defends the word “sucks” in Slate. This seems relevant to me because my keynote at the O’Reilly Open So...

Whoops, I should have mentioned this in time for you to see it live, but I was on Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak today. It’s a fun little web video show (vlog...

Divebars. Jukeboxes. Allen Iverson. Beerball. Super Mario Kart. NetFlix. LiveFuckingJournal. The way my girl looks in that skirt. Everything great abou...

Why are half the pizza joints in New York City named Ray’s? I think A Full Belly had the definitive answer to this question as part of a series of pizza p...

Wikipedia ‘s an amazing achievement, the kind of thing a lot of us use as a case study of what can go right on the web. But it’s an effort that involves a lar...

The community of people who criticize Wikipedia form an interesting culture , as I noted earlier. If you want the links to do the research yourself, here’s so...

Some tenets: Contributing to a community, online or offline has value. As long as that value is recognized and rewarded, a community will thrive. Rewar...

…and you put links in your browser, and that’s what makes the web work. Last October, Reason published an interesting look at bloggers’ overreactions a...

Right now, the most important thing you could be doing is reading these web pages: Jeff Clavier celebrates his second blogging anniversary and quotes me...

A little cursory research shows that Microsoft sells roughly as many licenses for Windows XP Media Center Edition as Apple does for Mac OS X, on a quarter-by-q...

I enjoy links myself, so I thought you might want some too. Here, then: Graphs as art : Werner Vogels picks up the site graph meme with some nice visualiz...

Jason linked to a great Ben McGrath story in the New Yorker, but I was bit bothered by some of the flippantly dismissive stuff in the article. The piece is...

Speaking of memes from a year ago , last year I created a site called ishavingamassage.com. (That’s “Is Having A Massage”, not “I Shaving…”) The domain is a (...

A little over a year ago, I wore a funny t-shirt while posing for a photo that was published in an article in the New York Times. The shirt ‘s a reference...

My reign as most verbose Justin Timberlake fanboy on the Internet is not yet complete. Thus, some links to augment the review of “SexyBack” . The Observe...

From the comments on one of my recent posts, here’s a perfect example of the challenge of explaining technology. I’d provided a set of links for subscribing...

Four years is a long time in pop music, but that’s how long it’s been since Justin Timberlake’s “Like I Love You” heralded his launch as a solo singer and...

One of the most interesting subcultures of the technology industry is that of the venture capitalists that fund so much of what’s going on. While the conventio...

Just a little geek note, there’s now a box that will appear the first time you visit my site (it disappears after the first visit) that will let you subscribe...

It’s no great revelation that popular music has largely shifted to a producer-centric culture, and though this is true not just in hip hop or house music, as...

Zinedine Zidane’s savage headbutt of Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final has touched on many things : Race, family, country, terrorism, sportsmanship. But...

I nominate Chris Anderson for best day ever. A hit book on its first day out ( my review got a nice nod ), a featured blog on TypePad (and you get a co...

I tend to like the extra features on most DVDs more than the main feature. With that in mind, here’s a look at the links that made up today’s post which was a...

I’d started reading The Long Tail (You’ve read the blog , now buy the book !) by surprising myself with how excited I was to read the book; After a...

As the Jay-Z of blogging, I feel obligated to share this HP commercial featuring the Jay-Z of hip hop. � Read more on Vox...

Microsoft’s AdCenter advertising service has a demographic predictor as part of their labs; It’s supposed to indicate what audience can be expected to respon...

Alright, you deserve some links. Currently enjoying: Discopop ! Every recent post’s a winner. About Making Something Meaningful , Brad Feld has some n...

I’ve been told that sometimes I seem frustrated or cynical lately about new web things or Web 2.0 hype, and that’s probably because I have been. I grew up wi...

I take it back , people do sometimes leave good comments. I’m thrilled with the comments on “A Malcolm and a Martin” , as well as the conversations on othe...

Short and sweet, the Ribbon and new UI in Microsoft Office 2007 is** the ballsiest new feature in the history of computer software**. I’ve been using O...

Congrats to Robert Scoble on his new gig, and no disrespect intended to great MS bloggers like Dare Obasanjo and Niall Kennedy, but for my blogging dollar, the...

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to be a good advocate or evangelist for an idea, movement, or cause. The short version is, you gotta have a Malcolm...

When I’m not able to be a good blogger myself, I rely on the kindness of others. Let’s see what’s out there! Snarkout, one of the finest blogs on the web, ha...

Ha, ha, I could have sworn I went away for a week and while I was gone the biggest thing that happened in the tech blogosphere was that people were arguing ove...

Hmm, much as I love Valleywag, there’s some factual inaccuracies in the loving tribute posted about me today. It asserts that a Vault.com story says that I w...

These days, I think people in traditional media outlets are writing stories just so they’ll get linked on particular blogs. John Cook trumping up a fuss in...

One of those interesting side-effects of having lots of old blog posts around is that sometimes they come back to life. With Star being fired last week, ther...

If you play Brain Age , you need to help buy Dr. Kawashima some fucking allergy medicine . Am I right? If you’re not playing Brain Age, you need to get a...

If you’re looking for information on the distributed denial of service attacks against Six Apart , we’ve got some posts up, along with the LiveJournal and...

I have this theory about a radical improvement in user experience that could be made for any website that allows comments to be submitted by readers. Especiall...

Mr. Henninger, I had the good fortune to review your column , in which you express, at length and in some detail, your extreme distaste for people publish...

Though Jason demanded asked me to contribute to his site a while ago, I’ve been remiss in actually posting links. However, if you bop on over to Kottke.org y...

One of my recurrent sources of frustration with my fellow geeks is that most are just plain lousy at convincing others to try technologies. It’s only because...

Last month, I wrote a bit about Copy and Paste , the history of technologies like rich content embedding, and how this stuff will evolve in the world of Ajax...

Hey, there! I’m your friend, so I didn’t want to be the one to tell you. But someone had to: Your April Fool’s Day joke sucks. Really, it does. April Fool’s...

I usually don’t do overt plugs for work stuff on my personal blog, but I’m pretty excited about a small event we’re doing here in San Francisco. It’s the first...

I’m pretty sure that dressing one’s child in this manner constitutes child abuse. If you’re interested in committing sartorial offenses against your own prog...

From the New York Times’ Sunday Styles section Silicon Alley’s resurgence , pegged to a tech Meetup where the crowd was discussing new web startups. Yep, Web...

Ladies and gentlemen, for the seventh year in a row, it’s the Panda Joke ! A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich. He eats the sa...

Sometimes I see things and assume that either someone has the same sick sense of humor that I do, or else people have completely lost their sense of the absurd...

In the same week I missed Etech for the first time in years, I should also mention that I’m not going to be in Austin for South by Southwest for the first ti...

I guess I’m not the only one thinking about copy and paste . Ray Ozzie is way, way ahead of me . In a development that’s clearly been brewing for some time,...

There’s been a lot of conversation lately about reinventing desktop office applications on the web. The first (and sometimes second) versions of all the stalwa...

Spring is coming, and with the return of baseball and the chirping of young birds in the air, a young man’s thoughts turn to… Internet standards. As in years...

Now, if I were a good blogger, I’d write posts about subjects that I know nothing about. But I am a rank amateur, so I will focus on my area of expertise: me....

Back when I first joined Six Apart, the main thing that made me really believe in what we did was that I saw that blogs could change people’s lives for the bet...

Just found this, though it’s an older post:  Michael Koppelman’s PodCasts about his time working with Prince. Koppelman was the engineer on a bunch of great...

I sure do love words. And even better, my friends do too. So they make great websites and books about it. Mark made Neologasm , which I am very partial to bec...

I’d been following Judith’s story of her lost camera with great interest until the latest update shocked me: “Well,” she said, “we have a bit of a situat...

These are hyperlinks to internet websites you should read. Rhino is doing a Prince retrospective . Though there’s certainly more than enough retrospective...

Hooray Web 2.0 Originally uploaded by torrez . Andre posted this Nascar-style assemblage of Web 2.0 company logos. Though there’s a number of grea...

I was startled by this phenomenally wrong-headed editorial in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond exposes his insecurities by arguing that Craig Newm...

I’m glad I’m (just barely) able to read enough Spanish to appreciate this post . Congratulations, gabilondo....

Even though Jason asked me to write four things, suddenly I’ve got one thing stuck in my head. And I’m amazed this meme jumped from LiveJournal to the publ...

Hey kids, do you like links? Me too. Chris Anderson revisits the death of the blockbuster , which is of course astute and correct, but is mostly interesti...

In one of the more surprising events of the new year for me, my good friend and role model Rebecca Blood has started using Movable Type for her seminal, infl...

Dan posts one of this infrequent updates, titled “ A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal “. It’s a great perspective on Dr. King’s work and legacy on the day w...

Needless to say, after watching the first season of Lost as well as all the episodes of the season thus far, we’ve become fans of the series. I’m not a huge...

R. Kelly’s Happy People!...

It’s like they chose the onstage talent at this event just to appeal to me ! ![Rock Your BillG.jpg]https://cdn.glitch.global/71e5579f-aba0-499a-b200-01549a2a...

Lots of people in both the music/media and technology businesses are obsessed with beating Apple’s work on the iPod and iTunes. With the CES show being this we...

Best things I’ve seen lately? A wake-up call for geeks who have been neglecting the legislative initiatives that will affect all of us in the future. T...

Prince.org has a great interview entitled " ALAN LEEDS – THE QUESTIONS, THE ANSWERS & MORE BESIDES… .", with some terrific insights from Alan Lee...

Well, in a year of many firsts, here’s another one: I’m off to Taiwan for a week and a half. I”ve never been there, so I’ll be eating a lot and trying to enjoy...

If you enjoyed posts such as Excel Pile , where people detailed their favorite ways of geeking out with Microsoft Excel, you may enjoy such recent discoveries...

Every few days, I get sent a link to someone who’s running a blogging awards contest. Sometimes it’s for all blogs, and other times it’s focused on a specific...

Just a quick note, Niall Kennedy has posted the conversation he and I had on Friday on his blog. It’s available as both text and an MP3/podcast if you don’t...

What was that about how people are emotional about the social software they use? Today was a pretty rough day, with a long painful downtime for TypePad, and I...

I’ve never played an MMORPG, but I do understand how important they are in the lives of the people who invest in them… they’re both entertainment and community...

Best post I’ve seen today: Ari Paparo talks about the differences between del.icio.us and Blink . Blink was Ari’s startup during the bubble, which raised $13...

Vauhini Vara’s got a great interview with Michael Hart on the Wall Street Journal website today. (Click quick, that link probably expires.) I’ve always fel...

I don’t usually ascribe any kind of emotion to corporations, so I was surprised that visiting the Macromedia homepage this morning made me sad. “Formerly Mac...

Sometimes I miss when I used to just share random links with folks. So here’s what’s caught my eye lately. Greencine’s list of movies filmed in the Bay Area...

I almost never think anything in business is a zero-sum game, least of all intangible things like branding or aesthetics. But some part of me thinks that a lot...

Is FTP the worst web services interface ever? I’ve been publishing Froogle product lists (which I guess are now Google Base upload files ) with Movable Type j...

Every dumb joke needs a website, thus the Web 2.0 Checklist , courtesy of Mr. Sippey ....

Having just watched chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet , here’s a list of the best words in the saga: Rubber Spatula Allergic Bless...

I’ve been proud to be a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for a few years, because I think they do important work that helps benefit all of u...

I’ve been fascinated by the increasing popularity of radio stations that are using automated programming from a very large playlist of songs. Most of these are...

Looks like Amazon’s in the midst of a rollout of tags on product pages . It’s not the first dabbling Amazon’s done in the technology, of course, since they we...

I’m delighted to see the Smoking Gun’s " Blasphemy In A Bottle" story. "Journalist" Dawn Westlake of CBS, who has covered the Michael Jack...

Thanks to Matt for pointing out some wildly irresponsible journalism . I’m always amazed that editors go with these stories (and write these kinds of headline...

Mariah Carey killed her career by divorcing her boss and making a shitty movie, and then she gets to come back because she’s filling the void left by Bone Thug...

I’ve written about a lot of things on my blog that I felt were important to me over the years, so it’s something of an uncanny feeling to know that I’m writing...

I’ve been mostly offline (more on that later) but there’s been some really interesting commentary on my last post, most notably Caterina’s lengthy response ....

Like many great social software applications, Flickr began its life as something else. Flickr was built on a platform for a game called Game Neverending, which...

It’s really weird that after years of kicking around the industry Lewis Taylor finally shows up, apparently charting in some places. It’s even been enough th...

Or, “Yahoo bought everyone on my buddy list, and all I got was this t-shirt”. Following up on the discussion about Web 2.0 from last week, the only thing a...

Since I’ve, uh, cornered the market on blogging about blog songs, I’m contractually obligated to link to Gawk At This , the Gawker rap track by The Assimila...

A couple years ago, when I was on the other side of the continent from all the Silicon Valley/San Francisco events, I wanted to know what it was like to attend...

I love magazines. Love, love, love. They’re full of short, frequently-updated content and they make good use of layout and pictures: that’s what I love in a me...

If you’re reading my blog in a feed reader, c’mon over to the HTML version and take a look — it’s painfully bright! Thanks to Lilia for making a beautiful...

We’re three (or more) years into the blogosphere’s love for GoogleBombs, and here’s another story on them. I’m glad I at least got to throw in a little quote...

It’s like the whole web was made for Ben’s indulgence . This week at Slate, Judd Apatow’s Diary . The best part? He loves "Being Bobby Brown" , to...

My not-very-secret ulterior motive for being such a big fan of Six Apart’s strong international presence has been the promise that our overseas efforts will re...

Now, I’m as skeptical as the next person in regard to Google’s “Dont Be Evil” mantra, which makes me snicker just because , well, it seems like an awfully low...

Yes, all the talk today about Google and blogs is about the launch of Blog Search , but equally newsworthy to me is the recent post about Dr. Lee on Google’...

Prince’s S.S.T. , his (surprisingly good) Hurricane Katrina relief track is now up on the iTunes Music Store . Nice that you don’t have to be in his little o...

I can’t see the date anywhere today without just stopping, freezing in my tracks. It surprises me it’s still that close to the surface, even after four years....

The E4X support I’d mentioned in my web trends predictions post has just shipped as part of Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 . Though the the release notes track a litt...

I’m very, very proud to work with people like Jamison. Take a look at his post describing the new sign that was put on the New Orleans streetcars here in San...

Link: Finally, the wine bar is raised – Los Angeles Times ....

Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors here at das...

The WWL radio interview with New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has made me angrier than anything I’ve seen in the aftermath of Katrina. I’m the type of person who’s...

We were looking through some old stuff on Mena’s site today, and the good news is that every indication is that I’m going to be living in a shack in New York...

Link: NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago ....

Holy cow! Movable Type 3.2 is finally released, after tons and tons of hard work by the whole team. I’m always excited when we release new stuff at Six Apa...

Okay, enough talk about ugliness. Let’s try out Google’s new IM service before it launches tomorrow ! Yay for people figuring things out. I’d feel bad for G...

When the site first appeared and all the cool kids were using it, I could forgive the logo. I thought, hmm, ugly and dumb but they’re just starting out and t...

Donnie asks , “But why is your blog soooo damn ugly man?” And the answer is, because I am a lousy designer. I’ll probably be updating the site to use the s...

This fantastic series of photos of subway stations really makes me appreciate mass transit in a way that I haven’t in ages. Look at Stockholm! Any space wh...

I guess I should have caught this back on the 20th of last month, but I’ve been blogging here for six years . And living in San Francisco for a year now. I do...

Yeah, I love blogs and all that stuff. But the real reason I love working at Six Apart is that sometimes we get to do stuff that’s actually funny. If Bl...

The amount of information, especially in the song database, at the unofficial home of Morris Day & THE TIME is pretty amazing. I love resources like this...

This is a little outside my area of expertise, but that’s why I thought it might be interesting: I’ve just posted over on IntentBlog , a relatively new blog s...

Why do I love LiveJournal? Because you find things like " Who’s your favorite faux Christian ex-rock star? ". A sad tale of Scott Stapp’s decline int...

Paul Scrivens has been doing a great job of leveraging his brash personality and formidable talent to make a name for himself, especially in the design world....

The U3 website is one of those hardware industry initiative sites so overdesigned and inscrutable that I can’t tell if it’s promoting the idea of running app...

This New York Times story about some archaeological discoveries in East Jerusalem is interesting for a few reasons: A political agenda masquerading as a reli...

Maciej’s fantastic Rocket To Nowhere is a thorough, and throughly sad, look at the Space Shuttle. Even if there’s never another mishap with the shuttle, it’s...

I found this interesting article on search engine optimization where the author starts out trying to create blogs on a number of American Idol contestants to...

Happy mailman-owner email day! He’s the guy who just sends you a reminder, once a month, about your subscriptions. He’ll even offer you some URLs if you’d li...

Just to be a little bit contrary, I’m gonna share some thoughts on products and services and companies I actually like but that I have some skeptical (cynica...

From what Chris tells me, you really don’t want to mess with me on AIM Fight . (My screenname is “anildash”, in case you want to tussle.)...