About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Back in college, I asked a friend why – even though they didn’t like the professor – they didn’t drop their painting class. Their reply – it gave them a space and a time to focus on painting, and their disagreements with the professor helped them better articulate the goals of the work. Excelerate Labs …
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First off: “Just do it — develop the products, and sell them and evolve them, and compete.” – Dave Winer People come back to places that send them away. Choose the best people to compete with. Make products for geniuses. Only steal from the best, and consider theft of your ideas the most sincere form …
I wrote this up earlier this year and thought – maybe you know of a similar project that could get this idea off the drawing board…. This community news platform is designed to collect and disseminate information in the public interest for communities too small to be effectively served by a traditional daily news source …
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This morning, I had an idea for a iPhone app. After drawing up a couple of sketches on paper – I dove into the internets to look for existing code, sample projects, or at least some tutorials that might get me started. While I did find an extremely simple sample project that did something similar …
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Earlier this week – a message came through the web font mailing list referencing VRML. A painfully slow, barely usable, 3d modeling-for-the-web technology that I experimented with VRML during my time with Jeremy and da5d. And I hadn’t heard of since. Shortly after my adventures in VRML, CSS 2.0 supported custom web fonts as we …
If you’re not able to attend tonight’s IgniteMpls event, or just want a preview of my 5 minute talk…. QWERTY History Why QWERTY was Invented QWERTY @ Wikipedia Christopher Lanthan Scholes: Wikipedia, Find a Grave Antique Typewriters’ Flickr Stream Alternative Keyboards Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Colemak Fitaly Opti GKOS Two Stick Frogpad Maltron
On Thursday March 4th – I’ll be transforming my The iPhone, iPad, and the End of QWERTY post into a 5-minute presentation at the 2nd IgniteMpls event. Should be great fun. See you there. Now, which keyboard layout to create the presentation in.
I just received confirmation that my ‘Ban Helvetica: The Brave New World of Web Fonts’ presentation has been accepted into MinneWebCon on April 12, 2010 at the University of Minnesota. I’ll be covering; optimizing fonts for web use, browser compatibility, licensing, and answering your questions. Registration is a very reasonable $200.
One of the ongoing undercurrents of my thinking is the concept of acknowledged expertise. A concrete example – we’re the worst people to write our own résumé. Talking with people we’ve worked with is better. Having others describe us and what we do is far more accurate – if only because there are more of …
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“It is just a tragedy that we are taking QWERTY into a new era of devices” – Alec Longstreth in a Wall Street Journal article on this topic. “The solution was to place commonly used letter-pairs (like ‘th’ or ‘st’) so that their typebars were not neighboring, avoiding jams. While it is often said that …