The writing is over (for this edition), the book has “shipped to the printer,” and the cover mechanical (shown above, in its technicolor glory) is in the can. My tech writing career is now complete: an animal book with O’Reilly!
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The new phone book is (almost) here!
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · long story short
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stump the chumps
May 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
what’s the difference between a duck? – Wolfram|Alpha
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ok – trick questions are no fair, but hire someone with a sense of humor and load it up with snappy answers, yo.
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Designing Social Interfaces, Rough Cut edition now available from O’Reilly Media
April 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Design, Information Architecture, Patterns, Social Design, The Power of Many, Yahoo!, user experience
Designing Social Interfaces – Rough Cut | O’Reilly Media
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The unedited, 500 page first draft of our book is available now in PDF format for review by anyone who can’t bear to wait till September for the first (“real”) edition to come out.
Yay!
gee and i’ve only met barlow once
January 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Patterns, Social Design, The Power of Many, long story short
gee and i’ve only met barlow once
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was JP Barlow idly doing the comparisons today, or is this more like secret-admirer spam?
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Design hacks with stencils and patterns
September 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Design, Patterns, Social Design, Yahoo!, user experience
These are the slides I worked from today in my talk at Yahoo! Open Hack Day 08, Design Hacks with Stencils & Patterns:
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Open Hackday 08 begins
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Development, Events, Patterns, The Power of Many, Yahoo!, conventionology, user experience
I’m going to name the robots Foo and Bar. We still haven’t announced the musical act that will be performing on this stage tonight.
So far I’ve heard Cody Simms and Neal Sample (Cody and Neal, hmmm….) give a great overview of YOS (with great visuals by Micah Laaker), and am now listening to Allen Rabinovich explain how to hack with Flash and Flex.
At 2pm I’ll be talking about patterns and stencils and how they can help coders build better interfaces.
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