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An Event Apart, The Musical

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i'm UNfollowing you on twitter — here's why

LOVE your stuff!!!

however, your twitter posts have taken over my twitter stream: a good 30% of my stream is YOUR stuff. so i've decided to UNfollow you, sorry.

thought: you could write a script of some sort to set up a Zeldman LITE twitter account, with (only) 1-4 posts/day. or you could post em yourself, manually.

or not.

i'll keep reading your site, regardless. thanks for reading.

It's a wonderful life

When you write "This post has earned one meager response," meager describes the quality of the response received when, I think, your intent is to describe quantity of responses received. Recast?

Thomas Osborne

Five Billionth Flickr photo

Flickr members upload more than 3,000 images every minute. Here is the five billionth.

Of Thee I Sing

According to Lanyrd and this Amtrak ticket, I'm on my way to Washington, DC, home of the 9:30 Club, Embassy Row, museums and monuments, and the site of An Event Apart DC—three days of design, code, and content for people who make websites.

I love DC the way someone who used to live there loves a town. In DC I fell in love, played in some little-known but great bands, wrote for City Paper and The Washington Post, and started an advertising career that would take me to New York ...

The Self-Published Author

I didn't have much of a marketing plan other than e-mailing my friends and writing to people who had book-review sites and asking them if they would like a free copy. But the word got around. Soon I was deluged with e-mail, and within days I started getting checks in the mail. Many dozens of 'em. Mostly from the United States, but also from Sweden, Australia, Singapore …

Using the internet to reach an audience and distribute work traditional publishers reject. Novelist...

Pages now exports to ePub

Listen up, desktop ePublishers! Apple's iWork 9.0.4 update gives Pages the ability to export to ePub format, for use in Stanza, iBooks, or any standard ePub reader. The update is free.

Episode 19: Beyond Usability with Aarron Walter

Designer Aarron Walter guests on tomorrow's episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped before a live internet audience.

Aarron is the author of one of my favorite web design books, Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond (New Riders, 2008). It's the book that explains the connection between "search engine optimization" and good, accessible, semantic markup. (Buy your clients a copy.) He works as the lead user experience designer for

ALA 313: CS, CMS, H&J, OK!

In Issue No. 313 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Better content management systems start with content strategy; typographically beauteous web pages may benefit from hyphenation and justification.

Strategic Content Management

by JONATHAN KAHN

Any web project more complex than a blog requires custom CMS design work. It's tempting to use familiar tools and try to shoehorn content in—but we can't select the appropriate tool until we've figured out the project's...

My other iPad is a Kindle

The new Kindle has a lot going for it. It's inexpensive compared to a full-featured tablet computer like the iPad; you can slip it in your back pocket, where it's more comfortable than an old-style paperback; and it includes a Webkit browser. This last point is where folks like us start to give a hoot, whether we're fans of epub reading or not.

The flavor of Kindle's browser concerns us because it affords us the ability to optimize the mobile viewing experience with a single ...