Category Archives: Communication

Tinycon — Favicon Alerts

Pretty sure I could count the num­ber of times I actu­ally looked at a fav­i­con alert on one hand, that being said nice work.

whatwg – Requests for new elements for comments

Want to do com­ments on your new spiffy HTML5 site, use an arti­cle ele­ment inside your main arti­cle element.

inessential.com – Fantastical and language detection

That is prac­ti­cally the def­i­n­i­tion of great soft­ware, caus­ing your users delight in the every­day workings.

TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Clay Shirky deliv­ers a clear and cogent his­tory and expla­na­tion of PIPA/SOPA, walk­ing through through both the intent and what the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the bill and how it changes the entire legal sys­tem under which web­sites operate.

O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge

The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for peo­ple to get dig­i­tal information/media/anything is just wrong.

The Contactually Blog – E-mail is the Universal Platform

I don’t put much stock in sto­ries that say e-mail is dead for pre­cisely this reason.

Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times

Media com­pa­nies respect their cus­tomers or maybe not.