In an edited excerpt from his new book, Too Big to Know , David Weinberger explains how the massive amounts of data necessary to deal with complex phenomena exceed any single brain's ability to grasp,

Except when I occasionally update Designing With Web Standards , I quit writing hands-on, nuts-and-bolts stuff about CSS and HTML years ago. Publishing abhors a vacuum: other designers and developers

The HTTPArchive celebrates its second birthday this month, and it seems fitting to check in and take a quick snapshot of a typical web page. Not surprisingly, pages are bigger. But surprisingly, pages are even bigger than I expected. Here you can see the growth in average page size over just two…

http://t.co/6cZzMKej The World Beyond MVC - Amen

There's a quiet war brewing among technology companies – one that , if successful, will shift billions of dollars of media spending while upending the fundamentals that underpin how marketers reach co

Strategic pricing helps your brand and helps you to make more money. Issuing a price is like handing out a business card—it’s a great branding tool, but be careful about what it says to your market. B

Ethan Hill You have a secret that can ruin your life. It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can revea

In his first column for US wired, in 1993, Nicholas Negroponte refused to be distracted by HDTV -- predicting instead the ways a digital revolution would alter how we consume content. Now, in a histor

Very interesting insights about the design and development of the Paper iPad app - http://t.co/BI3eiSJz

“The intellect by itself is the seat of trouble,” wrote Anaïs Nin in her diary in 1942. A recent passing mention in a chapter on the origin of “nothing” in Jim Holt’s excellent new book on why the uni

CSS preprocessors like Sass make my job immeasurably easier, and a whole lot more fun! It makes my CSS coding faster, cleaner, and more well-thought-out. However, despite the many advantages of Sass, I’ve noticed (and been guilty of creating) some less-than-ideal situations arising from its use. I’m…

A talk with the most remarkable researcher in artificial intelligence today, Douglas Hofstadter, the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. __In 1979, Douglas Hofstadter burst into public consciousness with a

After spending weeks searching for a contract that was simple for me and my clients to understand, in 2008 I wrote my own and published it on 24ways for anyone to use. Now it’s time for an update. Since publishing Contract Killer I have revised the wording a few times, most recently with an updated…

Despite his short life, the great Romantic poet John Keats (October 31, 1795–February 23, 1821) endures as one of the most influential creative geniuses humanity has produced. Writing to his brothers,

“What are the best practices?” is a question I’m asked often by folks interested in getting more strategic with content. Whether we’re talking about making content work for mobile, reusing content across multiple channels, advising customers or guiding users, accommodating emerging international…

You've probably seen it already, but this @paulrobertlloyd article is a piece of inspiration: http://t.co/fC6rhW1F

Something crucial happened last month that no one seems to be paying attention to. People searched less. Advertisement Advertisement That's never happened before. Ben Schachter of Macquarie Securities

There are many ways of performing usability tests - all of which will get you feedback, allow you to make alterations and gradually iterate until you have a solution. But these methods often take time. Let’s look at an alternative process which will speed things up tenfold: leveraging social media.…

WordPress security is serious business. Exploits of vulnerabilities in WordPress’ architecture have led to mass compromises of servers through cross-site contamination. WordPress’ extensibility increases its vulnerability; plugins and themes house flawed logic, loopholes, Easter eggs, backdoors and…

“We have to nail down the relationships between elements, and…let the specifics take care of themselves.” — @armstrong, http://t.co/IhIBEzcs

Oct 10, 2012 Lean Startup Is Great UX Packaging About The Author Tomer is a user experience researcher at Google Search in New York City and author of the book, It’s Our Research: Getting stakeholder

Responsive Comping: Obtaining Signoff with Mockups http://t.co/Dcp5vcaj absolutely amazing article about responsive process by @elefontpress

Lean Strategy for UX Design http://t.co/YUflvbgs

The Mobile Playbook by Google, "The Busy Executive’s Guide to Winning with Mobile" - http://t.co/UbLiT7fr - Bookmarked. #useful

Sep 28, 2012 How To Encourage Better Client Participation In Responsive Design Projects About The Author Andy Clarke is a well-known web designer , design consultant, and mentor. He’s been called plen

Our Content Management Systems are the Mainframes of the Mobile Era by @grigs http://t.co/1IqJKLjI Great read and great comments.

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“Atmadm.” Getting our work done was an alphabet soup nightmare. “chkntfs.” “dir.” (Source: vintagecomputer.net ) Then, in 1984, Apple adopted Xerox PARC’s WIMP — window, icon, menu, pointer — and took us a galactic leap forward away from those horrifying command lines of DOS, and into a world of…

Posted on February 12, 2006 Posted by John Scalzi A writing question: What writing tips would you whisper to those who aren’t aspiring professionals, but would like to write better? If I asked you abo

This guest post is by Steve of Thecodeofextraordinarychange.com Confidence is over-rated. At least, it’s over-rated in the homogenized, misused, self-help industry clap-trap kinds of ways. In today’s