links for 2007-06-30

• Designer//Slash//Model
  design *can* change the world
  (tags: design digital video funny humor fashion motion graphic)

links for 2007-06-28

• seanbonner: Do I really need another inbox?
  reference for ‘plays well with email’ blog post i’m never finishing
  (tags: email yasns)

Lessons from failure at Boxes & Arrows

I am curating a series of articles at the venerable information architecture (and user experience) web magazine Boxes and Arrows, based on the panel I moderated on the same topic at this year’s IA Summit.
The first article in the series is Joe Lamantia’s It Seemed Like the Thing to Do at the Time: The Power of State Mind. Joe looks at the big picture, literally, comparing business failure ot catastrophic societal failure, using the Easter Island culture as a case study (as well as his own experience with a startup).
I’m really glad to see this article published because we had limited time on the panel and I wanted to hear more of Joe’s thoughts about these scenarios.
Fascinating stuff and more to come.

links for 2007-06-24

• sarahcpr » Blog Archive » Collaborative Micro-filtering
  sarahcpr is on fire!
  (tags: community collaboration context interesting myspace facebook visualization socialnetworks socialnetworking social recommendations microfiltering collabrativemicrofiltering)

I need to hire Liza Sabater as my publicist

In an interesting rambly ‘meme of the month’ post at her famed CultureKitchen website, called Radical Fringe, Liza writes:
> … Jeff Tiedrich of Smirking Chimp, confirming my theory that you’re not a true net native if you don’t know who Christian Crumlish is or if, at least, he doesn’t know who you are. If you don’t know who he is, then you have to read his book. It’s freaky how almost of the pioneers of the net have one or two degrees of separation from Xian.
But is it freaky, really, or am I just an exceptionally good stalker?

links for 2007-06-20

• Hey Norton! – Ken Norton’s blog – How do we overcome our tagging interface challenges?
  the perennial tag-delimiter problem discussion
  (tags: tags tagging delimiters)

links for 2007-06-19

• Adactio: Journal – Hackfight
  reputation battles
  (tags: reputation lifestream game hack hacks hackday)
• Adactio: Journal – Streaming my life away
  adactio n lifestreams
  (tags: del.icio.us aggregator lifestream mashup web2.0 feeds rss)

links for 2007-06-17

• Laughing Squid :: Freakshow, Honest Reviews of Web 2.0 Websites
  anonymous gossip rag
  (tags: anonymous gossip rag web2.0 laughingsquid)
• Freakshow
  likewise
  (tags: blog laughingsquid review web2.0 weblogs anonymous gossip rag)
• dog or higher: WebPatterns and WebSemantics
  John Allsopp’s important 2005 essay on web patterns
  (tags: webpatterns 2005 allsopp design-patterns designpatterns patterns webdesign semantic)
• WebPatterns
  John Allsopp’s occasional rallying point for web patterns
  (tags: patterns webdesign web design standards webpatterns allsopp)
• Functioning Form – Web Patterns: Q&A with John Allsopp
  LukeW’s interview with Allsopp
  (tags: allsopp lukew bestpractices microformats patterns semantic semanticweb css html ia design web webdesign designpatterns)
• Lingua Francas for Design…, by Thomas Erickson
  interesting paper on design languages
  (tags: patterns webpatterns design)
• HCI Pattern-Form Gallery
  great classification of hci pattern languages
  (tags: design gallery hci metapatterns pattern patterns reference design_patterns ui webpatterns)
• PLML: Pattern Language Markup Language
  (tags: patterns language hci webdesign webpatterns design intercation standards xml)
• PLML extension: concerns
  Sally Fincher’s concerns with the direction of PLML circa 2004
  (tags: 2004 plml webpatterns hci standards patterns design-patterns interaction design)

links for 2007-06-13

• blog.pmarca.com: Killer Mac OS X apps for 2007
  Marc Andreessen’s (did I spell that right) picks… a few there that are new to me (like 1001)
  (tags: 2007 applications apps list lists mac tools osx software review tips)
• Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming
  ya software design pattern languagep
  (tags: patterns design-patterns designpatterns programming reference)
• Generative Design Patterns – MacDonald, Szafron, Schaeffer, Anvik, Bromling, Tan (ResearchIndex)
  (tags: patterns)
• Suicide Food
  meat is murder is scrumptious
  (tags: advertising animals food culture)

I'm interviewing Nicholas Meriwether

Over on the Well, in the public Inkwell topic, I’m interviewing my pal Nick Meriwether about his new book, All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead, a scholarly work looking at the Dead phenomenon from a variety of perspectives.
You can submit questions to this interview by mailing them to inkwell AT well DOT com.