About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
In continuing my short sell of social media, I’ve been imagining Twitter and Facebook as holdings in a hedge fund manager’s portfolio. In my amateur understanding of hedge funds: the goal is to reduce risk and maximize returns by investing in assets that move in the opposite direction. The magic is in finding the complimentary …
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Ben Weiner‘s been doing great work on giving greater visibility for open fonts – and has written a book proposal for web fonts. I called him up to discuss this work and my notion that web fonts are a brant new species of fonts. Links and topics we mention: Open Font Library EEULAA.org SIL Open …
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In First Crack #124. Open Web Fonts with Ben Weiner, I call up Ben Weiner to discuss Open Font Library and web font licensing.
Over on the Twitter the other day, I wrote: “Yes, that giant sucking sound you hear is me buying up CDSs against UGC-backed securities. #shorting_social_media” Right now, the similarities between the overheated real estate market of a few years ago and the current chatter around the marketing potential of Twitter and Facebook are uncanny. Turns …
If you’d like a quick overview of the web font technology space – here’s a mind map I used a the point of conversation for my ‘Ban Helvetica – Or Why Ignoring Web Safe Fonts Makes Your Website Better‘ session at the MinneBar this past weekend (photo credit: Robyn Flach)
CitizenWausau is one of the coolest, homegrown citizen journalism projects I’ve seen since I’ve been looking for them. I called up Dino Corvino and Andy Laub, the editor and technologist respectively, to discuss the project, how it’s grown, and it’s relationship with more established media in a smaller city market.
In First Crack #123 – Building CitizenWausau.com, I call up Dino Corvino and Andy Laub, the editor and technologist respectively, to discuss the project, how it’s grown, and it’s relationship with more established media in a smaller city market.
John Hoffoss, a network security engineer at one of Minnesota’s larger institutions, and I dive into computer security, security versus usability, the insecurity of URL shorteners, and some of the reasons Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer are more often targets of security exploits than other platforms. Stay til the end for a discussion of the …
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Put on your tin foil hat and join John Hoffoss and me for a tour of computer security threats, exploits, and vulnerabilities – and their relationship the usability. And yes, if you pull the hat down far enough – Twitter and Facebook are two of the most significant threats to network security yet. First Crack …
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I was getting 403 errors after deploying my newest Sinatra app with Passenger. Turns out Passenger assumes and requires a /public folder. This app is so tiny and new, it didn’t have one yet – so I was pointing Passenger at the app’s root. Resulting in the 403 errors. Solution: Create an empty /public folder …
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