Matthew Buchanan

"What matters is not the perception, nor the fashion, not who’s up and who’s down, but..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:58:05 +1300

“What matters is not the perception, nor the fashion, not who’s up and who’s down, but what someone has done and if they meant it.”

- A single line from a terrific email response by author Dave Eggers regarding creativity, criticism, selling out and “the unshakable need to reduce”. You’ll be glad you read this. (via Wilson Miner)

HTML5 and video in email

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:14:57 +1300

HTML5 and video in email:

Dave Greiner’s test results with HTML5’s tag point to limited support at present (Apple Mail, Entourage 2008, MobileMe and iPhone) but the ability to display hyperlinked fallback content for other email clients is an improvement over previous approaches, and support for this will only improve.

"All the evidence points to this being a highly intense, deliberate and planned attack intended to..."

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:56:18 +1200

“All the evidence points to this being a highly intense, deliberate and planned attack intended to gain access to Campaign Monitor data and to send spam emails. We are committed to stopping this ever being able to happen again, and again apologize for the major let down.”

- From Mathew Patterson’s full and frank account of today’s security breach at Campaign Monitor, which allowed a hacker to gain access to some accounts. Nightmare situation, well handled.

From Linzie Hunter’s “Spam One-Liners” series...

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:52:00 +1200

From Linzie Hunter’s “Spam One-Liners” series of typographic sketches based on the subject lines of unsolicited emails. Rob Walker writing for the New York Times:

Working quickly, with a tablet and stylus attachment that allows her to draw in the computer program Photoshop, [Hunter] gave each a unique treatment, like a hand-painted sign. Suddenly phrases like “Realise All Your Dreams With Our Help for a Short Time” or even “Local Chicks Who Need Lovin’ on the Side!” redone in bright colors with an almost folk-art feel, became funny, campy or ambiguous.

The postcard book mentioned in the article is now a reality.