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Facebook status updates: the memes go meta with the latest interface changes.

Facebook’s new @name syntax: copying Twitter to put the wall back into focus?

Microsoft Office goes online, a little slowly, but for a reason: cloud via Office, not via browser.

I’m happy to say that at long last, From A to <A>: Keywords of Markup is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. Jeff and I hope to see it in print in Spring 2010.

I recently attended CPTSC 2008 in Minneapolis: pretty good conference, damn good beer.

About Ted Dziuba’s “web != OS” rant, inspired by Google’s Chrome browser

I recently traveled to Chicago for excellent beer and a course by Edward Tufte.

Everyone else on the planet has probably read it already, but I’ve finished my first read of Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You. I like Johnson’s stuff (I fancy this this comment about an update of Interface Culture both a compliment and dead on). I read the endnotes before reading the book so [...]

Catch-all: strawberries, cleaning, accessibility internship, writing a review

Crossposted with a few email lists…
A colleague and I are putting together a panel on readymades, and we’re looking for a third presenter. Broadly speaking, we’re looking at the re-emergence of the readymade in a variety of forms: web-based templates and assemblages, even textbooks like the recently discussed TS/IS.
If you’re interested, drop me a line. [...]