which site should be the Blogger blog of the week? now you can vote.
I didn't know that hype is slang for a narcotics addict.
the sf office
brig has some thoughtful comments on friendship. mediated relationships are relationships. they are emotional. perhaps not as rich, satisfying, or complex as direct relationships. but they are not meaningless. they are not bits in ether. they are people communicating with people. I could not be one person here and another person there. I am me. mediated.
I've heard that you can't enter a place you've never left.
I really need to go on an exclamation point fast! Last one! Nope! One more!
the sebastopol office
It'll be great to be able to work with Derek. I've been a big fan of his design for a long, long time. (It turns out that he's a nice guy too!) You've seen his work before, but my mom hasn't. Hi Mom! Derek has done powazek.com, fray.com, kvetch.com, and sfstories.com...among others.
Nice new look you've got there, Meg.
The only complaining worth doing on the Internet is complaining about all of the complaining that goes on. So, geez, how about all this complaining? Is it driving you nuts too?
Do you stockpile Edward Tufte books, have a metaphor for Brenda Laurel, think Mac OS 6 was elegant, mock up text documents in Photoshop first, AND stand behind one-way glass and take notes while computer illiterates point and click and such? If so, you may be participating in Interface Culture and not even know it. All of this is my vague idea of what Interface Culture is like anyway. I usually stay away from interfaces (so it's not my culture). I'd like to know what these folks are really like, though. peterme asks what this interface community is interested in on sxswbaby!. It seems like they're interested in tabs.