• furbo.org: The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer
    "...only large companies and publishers can bear these [legal] costs. My fear is that It’s only a matter of time before developers find the risks and expenses prohibitive and retreat to the safety of a larger organization." [via waxy]
Jul 15th, 2011, 5:00 pm
  • MetaFilter Memories
    This is a special site for MetaFilter's 12th anniversary where members share their favorite memories. Matt found the domain of the first site linked from MetaFilter and bought it for this.
Jul 14th, 2011, 5:00 pm
  • Willamette Week: The Blogfather
    Area Man runs group weblog! "Thirty-five miles from Portland is the home of one of Oregon’s hottest tech properties. It’s a long way from the 'Silicon Forest' of local startups." Nice profile of Matt and his awesome Lifestyle Business that I'm happy to be part of.
  • INCEPTION HORN
    This site comes in handy when you suddenly realize you're having a dream within a dream.
Jul 13th, 2011, 5:00 pm
  • 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
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