• Marco.org: Own your identity
    "...there will always be the open web for the geeks, the misfits, the eccentrics, the control freaks, and any other term we can think of to proudly express our healthy skepticism of giving up too much control over what really should be ours."
  • Scripting News: Own your identity!
    Dave Winer is correct: "Have the courage to stake out your spot on the open web. Fill it with delicious treats, and connect it to others. That's creativity."
Jul 12th, 2011, 5:00 pm
  • smoke.js
    Nice JavaScript dialog/alert system.
  • Rough Type: Get on my lawn, kids
    "What are Facebook and Google but giant institutions, arms of the new establishment? What are smartphones if not high-tech leashes? Today, online databases hold more information about us than could fit on a mile-high stack of punch cards. Some kind of rebellion seems in order." [via sippey]
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Support MLKSHK!

Remember when the Web was about people making cool stuff and no one knew about it except a couple hundred of us nerds? We had a blast finding each other, our ranks grew, and then the normals moved in. Corporations started buying up the things we built and that was ok. More people on the Web means more of us can work on the Web and earn a living at it.

The independent Web is still out there though, and it needs people supporting it. If you like web applications that are built by people who love the Web, check out the image sharing community MLKSHK. It's fun. I'm a big fan and supporter. Amber and Andre need some help to keep it running so I'm spreading the word. It's also in my self-interest—I don't want MLKSHK to go away.

If you already use Flickr or Picasa or some other image sharing service, that's great. So do I. MLKSHK is less about original photography or the tech (though that is good) and more about the community of people using it to share cool things they find. So that's my pitch: check it out. If you like it, considering supporting it. The Web still needs indie corners where fun things happen.
Jun 22nd, 2011, 9:15 am
  • Basic Training
    Excerpts from the style sheet of the Kansas City Star, where Ernest Hemingway worked as a reporter in 1917.
  • Tim Bray: "Web" vs. "Native"
    Yes, this. There's no easy answer. "So the dis­cus­sion is re­ally about whether, on one hand, you build your mo­bile app with JavaScript and HTML and CSS, or on the other, you ship com­piled code that talks to a frame­work like Co­coa­Touch or An­droid or Win­Phone7."
Jun 20th, 2011, 5:00 pm
  • coding conduct: Don't Play Games With Me!
    Fascinating presentation about the current state of gameification, and some suggestions for where application designers should be headed. Along the way he asks, "What vision of The Good Life do your designs convey?"
  • CSS Lint
    Check your work.
Jun 15th, 2011, 5:00 pm
  • resizeMyBrowser
    Does what it says. Having common device names on the presets is a nice touch.
Jun 14th, 2011, 5:00 pm
  • Derek Powazek: How to Turn a Fan into an Enemy
    Disappointing exchange, and a textbook example of how not to respond to critics online. Like Derek I'm a huge fan of On the Media so, ugh.
  • Kevin Kelly: When Hard Books Disappear
    The Internet Archive is now archiving physical books. "Brewster noticed that Google and Amazon and other countries scanning books would cut non-rare books open to scan them, or toss them out after scanning. He felt this destruction was dangerous for the culture."
Jun 13th, 2011, 5:00 pm
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