Archive for category: Web & infrastructure

‘We, the Web Kids’ vs. ‘The IRL Fetish’    (2012.09.14)

You have never been more conscious of your offline life in your entire offline life

Beginning of the end    (2012.09.06)

“This photo represents the beginning of the end of anything resembling competence in Web development in Toronto”

Newsflash for Tom Morris    (2012.05.15)

Fighting alleged sexism in computer technology is one thing, but Tom Morris committed quite a boner

‘Design Is a Job’    (2012.04.12)

A designer tells a client why his designs say what the client means. Young designers need Monteiro’s Design Is a Job to learn how to do that. Design Is a Job needed an editor

And Maria Popova as Donald Trump    (2012.03.25)

Donald Trump: Deals are my art form. Maria Popova: Curation is artistic labour. Compare and contrast

When Readability harms readability    (2012.03.07)

The Readability app supposedly makes Web pages easier to read. What does it do to pages that are already easy to read?

DailyXtra.com    (2012.01.07)

Xtra threatens to launch a new daily-news site. What odds do you give they’ll do everything wrong?

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Feelings: The Technology Podcast About People    (2011.12.11)

Technology podcasts are all business and resolutely avoid any discussion of their guests’ lives. I’m proposing a podcast series that will solve that problem. And you’ll have to pay for it