Category: Paleoblogs

  • …and we’re back again

    …and we’re back again

    As I brushed off the old ‘bblog a month or so back, I decided to go ahead and update to latest version of WordSquisher, the software I use to run this site these days. I conveniently forgot that some of my plugins were obsolete and are starting to misbehave or had big labels on them…

  • Gratitude unbound

    Gratitude unbound

    I have a lot to be grateful for.

  • Perpetual Prototype

    Perpetual Prototype

    Neil MacDonald reviews Designing Social Interfaces at his site Perpetual Prototype: An Information Architecture Blog, writing If you are considering designing a site with social features, this book is a must read.

  • Meg Whitman is a biter

    Tipped off by my old buddy and collaborator Levi Asher, I learned that Meg Whitman and her as-told-to coauthor do in fact favor recycling, at least when it comes to book titles: Since I own the domain called thepowerofmany.com, I’m thinking about redirecting it somewhere interesting at least through election day. Any suggestions? via (Twitter…

  • Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-14

    designing # designing with a glass of red wine # Boot and Shoe Service on #Yelp: Wanted to try the new restaurant and see Pandora at the Grand Lake. Couldn't get in … http://bit.ly/8lNgb2 # making far-from-pixel-perfect mockups # This is how I do this http://flic.kr/p/7vzhVF # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-13

    http://2010.iasummit.org/calendar so far i've just perused the workshops and they look fantastic # aw man, too many great sessions to choose from: http://2010.iasummit.org/calendar # Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-12 http://tinyurl.com/yz5kk33 # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-12

    a new lazarus, i have cast off my boot and crutches # RT @inkblurt @louisrosenfeld @ferrarajc New Ning community exploring the intersection of #gamedesign and #ux: http://is.gd/64woL # RT @staciehibino: Awesome job by @nancyf on "Keys to Success as a Volunteer Organization" #baychi http://slidesha.re/871sOR # reid is to lott as insensitively blunt political handicapping is…

  • The book has arrived!

    the book has arrived! Originally uploaded by erin_designr We started our book proposal around June of ’08…

  • Certification of live birth

    Turns out I was born in Kenya too!

  • BT intent on his monitor

    BT intent, originally uploaded by xian. A snapshot of the evening entertainment last night at Yahoo! for the kickoff of the iPhoneDevCamp 3.

  • hells yeah

    hells yeah Originally uploaded by xian if it’s really him, why not?

  • Designing Social Interfaces, Rough Cut edition now available from O'Reilly Media

    Designing Social Interfaces – Rough Cut | O’Reilly Media Originally uploaded by xian 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!

  • Designing Social Interfaces Web 2.0 Expo workshop slides

    Social Patterns Talk – Web 2.0 version View more presentations from Erin Malone.

  • Slides from Designing Social Interfaces at IA Summit 2009

    Erin Malone and I introduced some of the fruit of our effort to carve out a pattern language for social user experience design. At the Information Architecture Summit in Memphis this past week we taught our pattern library workshop and then delivered this tandem presentation: Designing Social Interfaces View more presentations from Erin Malone.

  • south by, in a nutshell

    south by, in a nutshell this is a screenshot of a sampling of the tweets about the core conversation i did with erin malone re social design patterns. there was one that said we weren’t prepared and were just promoting our book, too. i do wish we had explicated an example pattern. the summit talk…

  • gee and i've only met barlow once

    gee and i’ve only met barlow once Originally uploaded by xian was JP Barlow idly doing the comparisons today, or is this more like secret-admirer spam?

  • About this new book I'm (co-)writing

    As you may know, I am writing a book with Erin Malone called Designing Social Interfaces for O’Reilly Media. Erin is the the founder of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and hired me to be its third curator. Today she is a partner at Tangible UX, a consulting firm, and I maintain the library as…

  • Open Hackday 08 begins

    hackday stage Originally uploaded by xian. 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),…

  • Florida and Michigan–Rebels on the Run

    Leaving aside everything else about this campaign, I’d like to zero-in on whether the delegates from these two states should or should not be seated. So, I have composed this imaginary statement in the name of the Democratic National Committee: STATEMENT –Barak Obama promised not to campaign in Florida, and he kept his word. He…

  • Ignite was fun

    My Ignite talk, Grasping Social Patterns Originally uploaded by duncandavidson. Here are my slides. | View | Upload your own Audio when it’s available (video too). UPDATE: and here’s some YouTube video shot from the audience (the very beginning of my talk is cut off):

  • Three talks for the price of, well, none

    At the IA Summit a week ago in Miami, I co-taught two full-day workshops (on patterns with Erin Malone and Lucas Pettinati, and social design with Christina Wodtke and Joshua Porter), moderated a panel (on presence and other aspects of social web architecture with Gene Smith, Wodtke, Andrew Hinton, and Andrew Crow), and gave a…