A Well-Known Links Resource - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I really like this experiment that Jim is conducting on his own site. I might try to replicate it sometime!
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The Internet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This video is a charming trip down to memory lane to the early days of the public internet:
It wasn’t quite the World Wide Web yet, but everybody started hearing about this thing called “the Internet” in 1993. It was being called the Information Superhighway then.
Why I Still Use RSS | atthislink
Having only the content I want to see only be shown when I want to see it with the freedom to jump between readers as I please, all with no ads? For me, no other service comes close to the flexibility, robustness, and overall ease-of-use that RSS offers.
Material Conference 2018: Craft on the Web - Charlotte Dann - YouTube
Charlotte’s opening talk at the Material conference was really excellent—a great narrative at the intersection of code and creativity.
Accessibility Whack-A-Mole · An A List Apart Article
A fascinating piece by Eleanor on the typographic tweaking that the Wellcome team did to balance the competing needs of different users.
Questions for our first 1:1 | Lara Hogan
Shamefully, I haven’t been doing one-to-ones with my front-end dev colleagues at Clearleft, but I’m planning to change that. This short list of starter questions from Lara will prove very useful indeed.
Revisionist History Podcast
Malcolm Gladwell’s new podcast is very good: perfect for huffduffing. And I really, really like the website—lovely typography, illustrations, and subtle animations.
Mosaic - Wellcome Trust
I did some consulting with the Wellcome Trust on this new magazine-like project, and it’s great to see it go live—excellent stories of science, all published under a Creative Commons licence.
The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014
The annual round-up.
Online communities
Caterina Fake takes a heartfelt look at the history of online communities:
The internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and discographies and advice and essays and photos and art and diatribes. None of them are known to you, in the old-fashioned sense. But they give the internet its life and meaning.
Technology - Howard Rheingold - What the WELL’s Rise and Fall Tell Us About Online Community - The Atlantic
The history of the WELL, a truly remarkable community.
The Keymaster: Patrick Olwell’s story - YouTube
The trailer for a documentary on flutemaker Patrick Olwell. The film should be done later this year.
Webstock: Jeremy Keith | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
I love these sketchnotes from my presentation at Webstock.
IMG_8191 - 2012-02-15 at 02-39-26 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
I can’t fave this picture enough. One moment of Webstock captured by Michael B. Johnson.
The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator
This is kind of mean, but it made me laugh. Out loud.
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records
Pitching Orwell against Huxley in an argument that is ironically shallow: it only holds up if you accept the premise that activities involving the web, television and video games are inherently “bad” and anti-social: a pathetically, narrow-minded and condescending worldview.
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker
A well-argued piece by Malcolm Gladwell on the relative pros and cons of weak-tie networks and strong-tie hierarchies ...although, as always, Gladwell relies on anecdotes more than data to make his point.
jewellrey - a set on Flickr
Beautiful steampunk jewellry.
Magnum Photos: The Places We Live
A photography exhibition and book by Jonas Bendiksen of densely populated urban areas around the world.
THE ORWELL PRIZE
In a similar treatment to the Pepys blog, the diary of George Orwell is being republished as a blog offset by 70 years.