markpasc + apropost   46

Twitter / @John Gruber: Link to others as you'd ha ...
“Link to others as you'd have them link to you. Easy.”
apropost  design 
may 2011 by markpasc
Twitter / @Mike Monteiro: Oh, FFS. I can’t believe w ...
“Oh, FFS. I can’t believe we still argue about this: Older goes on the left. Newer goes on the right. It’s a timeline. Minard got it right.”
apropost  design  nsfw 
may 2011 by markpasc
Exploring blog archives with interactive visualization
mostly just “let's show everything on a timeline, and make the posts with lots of comments bigger”
apropost  archive  design 
may 2011 by markpasc
Idle Time » Blog Archive » Blog posts vs. web pages
“In the two years since I published the last of the ASL series (ignoring approximately a week afterward), nobody has told me of an inaccuracy in any of the posts. ... They’re old, so people expect inaccuracy, so people don’t report them.”
apropost 
april 2011 by markpasc
Blogging is no longer a technology - quid.pro
“The reason there’s always a new blog platform every year or two is that each recapitulates the phylogeny of the others. Simplicity first! Then feature creep.”
apropost 
april 2011 by markpasc
Tumblr’s Mark Coatney Tired of Sites that Disrespect Commenters | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
“Down way at the bottom is this little tiny box with a tiny font with no extra tools that says leave your comment here. That already sends the message that the publication doesn’t value commenters as much as they value their own stuff.”
apropost  design  tumblr 
april 2011 by markpasc
Arvind Narayanan's journal - Nexus: cool friend graph visualization app
could build a visualizer like this if people have machine-readable blogrolls
apropost 
april 2011 by markpasc
Twitter / @Andre Pang: Flickr guest passes are im ...
“Flickr guest passes are implemented so, so well. Short URLs, history of all passes, trivial to revoke. The devil's in the details. @flickr++”
apropost 
march 2011 by markpasc
Making the Clackity Noise - kung fu grippe
“Little stories are the internet’s native and ideal art form.”
writing  apropost 
march 2011 by markpasc
Twitter / @Steven Frank: Ok let's see, distributed ...
“Ok let's see, distributed Twitter replacement... We'll have an aggregator for ‘finger’ profiles with FOAF XML that— hello? Hello?”
twitter  developers  apropost 
march 2011 by markpasc
Exquisite Tweets from @mathowie
“Ugh. Don't block thoughtful comments on your blog by instantly putting them into ‘moderation’. It assumes all behavior is criminal first. We definitely need better tools for managing blog comments, but email would have never taken off if every email was assumed to be spam first.”
moderation  blogging  apropost  design  comments 
february 2011 by markpasc
Hatena (company) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“ID Trackback is used to inform other users [when] a user mentions [them] on their Hatena Diary, and is designed to accelerate interaction between users of the service.”
apropost  tech 
february 2011 by markpasc
The End of Blogging – New York Observer
“I really feel like she renewed this idea in me that this should not be about covering Keith goddamn Olbermann. This should be about engaging with the thing that most fascinates me or cracks me up at 2 in the morning.”
apropost 
february 2011 by markpasc
Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog
“In our current layout there is no meaningful distinction between the quick post and a deeper story. Simple blockquotes and other short posts rapidly push our big exclusive down the page. If you're a writer, why bother expending energy?”
apropost 
february 2011 by markpasc

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