Sparklining Huffduffer
Graphing data at Christmas time.
Journal archive: 2008
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Welcome to the machine tag
More Flickr API methods to play with.
The tragedy of The Commons
Something is rotten in the state of Yahoo.
Hacking Huffduffer with Last.fm
Better podcasting with microformats.
Shape shifting
Fat Pipe, Always On, Get Out of the Way.
Feedback loopy
Gonna, shonna, wonna.
Iron Man and me
The story of how one of my Flickr pictures came to be used in a Hollywood movie.
Preservation and design
Design, context and embarrassing old websites.
Danmaku
Word of the day
Rating and launching
Rate My Area has launched.
Big in Japan
Adventures in the land of the rising sun.
Nihon
I’m going to Japan.
Audio ga-ga
Safari is being a bit too clever with the audio element from HTML5.
</head>
A virtual conference is a real success.
Mad Libz, Yo!
A cross-cultural miscommunication.
Chuff Chuff, Huffduff
Podcasts make train journeys bearable.
Typorn
Geeking out on the printing press.
Announcing Huffduffer
I maded you a website.
London to Boston
Another day, another conference.
Geode
Where am I?
Reading immaterial
Something for your digital bookshelf.
Automata
Carla Diana talks about robots at Flash on the Beach in Brighton.
Anti-pattern recognition
The password anti-pattern refuses to die.
The Invention of Air
The next book by Steven Johnson.
Self loathing for Sumo
I’m a cheap and dirty little blogslut.
Beauty at BarCamp Brighton
My small contribution to an excellent geek gathering.
post-dConstruct
The best one yet.
pre-dConstruct
Almost there…
hCard Wizard
Matthew Levine is an overlord of the Lazy Web.
An Event Apart, Day Two
Speaking and listening in San Francisco.
An Event Apart, Day One
Wrapping up a day’s liveblogging in San Francisco.
Implementing Design: Bulletproof A-Z
Liveblogging Dan Cederholm at An Event Apart San Francisco.
The Framework Age
Liveblogging Liz Danzico at An Event Apart San Francisco.
Shepherding Passionate Users
Liveblogging Heather Champ at An Event Apart San Francisco.
Web Application Hierarchy
Liveblogging Luke Wroblewski at An Event Apart San Francisco.
Storytelling by Design
Liveblogging Jason Santa Maria at An Event Apart San Francisco.
The Lessons of CSS Frameworks
Liveblogging Eric Meyer at An Event Apart San Francisco.
Understanding Web Design
Liveblogging Jeffrey Zeldman at An Event Apart San Francisco.
Automatic eagle
I’m going a long way to test this feature.
Finding five numbers
Off-site Pownce metadata for my future self.
Geek out and about
Say it loud and say it proud.
The Dark Knight on the silver screen
The popcorn, the people, the crappiness.
That sound
Moved to tears by the voice of a robot.
Silverbacking
The Mac app from Clearleft that might further the cause of usability testing.
Funny how?
It’s not clever because it’s a snowclone, it’s clever because it looks like it’s clever because it’s a snowclone.
Sound and vision
Data visualisation killed the video star.
Open Tech 2008
A day of geekiness in London.
Open Tech schedule
An hCalendar schedule for your subscribing pleasure.
dConstructicon
Get your ticket while the server’s up.
The Copenhagen Report
Another successful Reboot.
Rebooting
Copenhagen and again and again.
Supernova 2008
A different kind of conference.
Nashville
Voices that natter.
City Hopping
Brighton to Nashville to San Francisco.
XEN
XHTML Enemies Network
Colossal
Preserving computer history.
Making contact
Deathwatch for the password anti-pattern.
Alasgone
The land of the midnight sun.
Icebound
North to Alaska.
You are iPlayer
This URL will self-destruct in seven days.
Great escaping
Brighton rocks and/or rolls.
XTech 2008
One week in Baile Átha Cliatha.
Orangutans, Oxen and Ogham Stones
Liveblogging Sean McGrath’s closing keynote at XTech 2008 in Dublin
Why You Should Have a Web Site
Liveblogging a presentation by Steven Pemberton at XTech 2008 in Dublin.
Data Portability For Whom?
Liveblogging a talk by Gavin Bell at XTech 2008 in Dublin.
Ni Hao, Monde: Connecting Communities Across Cultural and Linguistic Boundaries
Liveblogging a presentation by Simon Batistoni at XTech 2008 in Dublin.
AMEE — The World’s Energy Meter
Liveblogging a talk by Gavin Starks at XTech 2008 in Dublin.
Building the Real-time Web
Liveblogging a spontaneous panel from XTech 2008 in Dublin.
Browsers on the Move: The Year in Review, the Year Ahead
Liveblogging a talk by Michael Smith at XTech 2008 in Dublin.
Using socially-authored content to provide new routes through existing content archives
Liveblogging a talk by Rob Lee at XTech 2008.
David Recordon’s XTech keynote
David delivers a state of the Web address to the geek nation.
Open Audio
Take my audio file. Please.
Loosely joined
What to do with those small pieces.
Open Data and Accessibility
I delivered the keynote presentation at the Accessibility 2.0 conference.
Accessibility 2.0
The closing panel at the Accessibility 2.0 conference.
Tools and Technologies to Watch and Avoid
A presentation by Ian Forrester at the Accessibility 2.0 conference.
A case study: Building a social network for disabled users
A presentation by Stephen Eisden at the Accessibility 2.0 conference.
User-generated Content
A presentation by Jonathan Hassell at the Accessibility 2.0 conference.
Rich Media and Web applications for people with learning disabilities
A presentation by Antonia Hyde at the Accessibility 2.0 conference.
Fencing in the Habitat
A presentation by Christian Heilmann at the Accessibility 2.0 conference.
Making Twitter Tweet
A presentation by Steve Faulkner at the Accessibility 2.0 conference.
Eight random things
Warning: meme.
Adventure
Get hard drive. Examine hard drive.
Wrapping up The Future of Web Design
A long day out in London draws to a close.
Iteration and You
Liveblogging a presentation by Daniel Burka at The Future of Web Design.
From Design to Deployment
Liveblogging a presentation by Jon Hicks at The Future of Web Design.
Print is the New Web
Liveblogging a talk by Elliot Jay Stocks at The Future of Web Design.
Photoshop Battle
Liveblogging a Photoshop tennis match at the Future of Web Design.
Getting Your Designs Approved
Liveblogging a presentation from Larissa Meek at the Future of Web Design.
Demo hell
The air gets sucked out of the room at The Future of Web Design.
The User Experience Curve
Liveblogging a talk from Andy Budd at The Future of Web Design in London.
User Experience vs. Brand Experience
Liveblogging a session from Steven Pearce and Andy Clarke at the Future of Web Design.
Jelly Bed
Things that are rolled.
Spaces
It’s the small things that irritate and delight.
App Engines of Creation
When does web development become systems administration?
Visual
Links to pretty pictures of data.
Mi.gration
Moving bookmarks.
Moral panic
Gaming, social networking, whatever.
FooVid
Voxpop videos from the Social Graph Foo Camp.
Welles
The power of radio.
Next to Last.fm
A half-baked idea for a mashup.
No fooling
Worst day ever for announcements.
Rick’n’rollaoake
Epic meme win.
Sand E. Eggo
A conference in California.
Hardware
Arduino hacking is the new Werewolf.
Moderation
Power goes to my head.
South by secularity
Once upon a lunchtime in America.
Southby gone by
Another year, another South by Southwest.
Anti-pattern begone
Google answers my prayers.
Rescue
How Erin and Peter saved South by Southwest.
Viva
IE8@MIX08
Vegas by Southwest
I have good cause to celebrate in Las Vegas and Austin.
Siam I am
One week in Thailand.
Thai-ing the knot
Going east.
Resolved
The search on Upcoming has been fixed.
Culture
The world of Iain M Banks.
Fanning the flames
Version targeting again. And again. And again.
Semantopoly
Even better than Werewolf.
Something for the weekend
Eventful.
The L words
Oh, what a difference an Oh makes.
Foo through
A most pleasant way to spend a weekend.
Foo fighting
Kung-Foo fighting. It was a little bit frightening.
SG Foo Camp schedule
You can take it with you.
Foo camping
Socialising around the social graph.
Outbound
I’m off to San Francisco. Again.
Regional
You can’t play that here.
Still broken
The default behaviour of Internet Explorer’s new version switching is still very, very wrong.
Broken
The default behaviour of Internet Explorer’s new version switching is very, very wrong.
Outgoing
How a badly implemented feature made me scared to search.
Common people
The wisdom of crowds, congress and Flickr.
Ten songs titles that could be Twitter updates
The kind of list that’s too geeky for McSweeney’s.
Blame
It serves you right for breathing.
Rolling
The year in (p)review.