By John Gruber
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Paul Ford:
A surprising portion of the writing about the web is actually about WWIC, about the question of who controls what territory. Here are a few random examples of how this plays out, from my WWIC folder: Michael Arrington’s “Digg’s Biggest Problem Is Its Users And Their Constant Opinions On Things.” Or the way that digital groupies claim ownership of their heroes online.
Saturday, 19 May 2012
I’ve never seen Community, but I really enjoyed this refreshingly honest entry by Dan Harmon on his getting fired from the show.
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Available now, through the end of next week: DF t-shirts. Order while they’re hot.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Zeldman:
This is my personal site. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Speaking of Mule Radio Syndicate and The Talk Show, our mutual friends at Black Pixel have just launched the brand-new Mule Radio iPhone app. The interface is simple and beautiful. Free download on the App Store.
Friday, 18 May 2012
I am, uncharacteristically, genuinely excited to announce that my Oscar-, Emmy-, and Grammy-winning podcast, The Talk Show is now on Mule Radio Syndicate. This week, I’m joined by special guest John Moltz, who was recently released from prison and is writing at his brand-new Very Nice Web Site. Topics include Mozilla’s antitrust concerns regarding Windows for ARM’s iOS-like restrictions on third-party apps, new reports that the next iPhone will sport a 4-inch display, Android device fragmentation, and dreamboat actor Ashton Kutcher.
Brought to you by Rogue Amoeba’s Piezo, the charmingly simple audio recording app for Mac; and by the all-new Basecamp from 37signals, the world’s most popular web-based project management app.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Major update to Flying Meat’s personal wiki app for the Mac. Chock full of great new features, but my favorite is this:
VoodooPad 5 includes a new Markdown page type with syntax aware editing and preview. And when you export for the Web, ePub, or even PDF, VoodooPad will render your page into rich text for display.
VoodooPad is one of those rare apps that’s in a category by itself. There’s nothing else like it.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Crazy how invasive salt water is to gadgetry.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Awesome.
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Dustin Curtis:
Basically, every time you visit a site that has a follow button or a hovercard, Twitter is recording your behavior. It is transparently watching your movements and storing them somewhere for later use. Right now, that data will make better suggestions for accounts you might want to follow. But what other things can it be used for? The privacy implications of such behavior by a company so large are sweeping and absolute.
The other implication is that every website you visit that includes “tweet this” buttons or <iframe>-embedded tweets is enabling Twitter to track you on the web.