WebKitBits
David Kaneda’s new project, a tumblelog focussed on Apple’s WebKit browser framework, and in particular its use in the mobile space. Some good tricks and techniques here already.
Talking about meeting people who speak in sentences and have complicated lives and make great things and care about a lot of the same stuff you do. That’s the thing.
— Merlin Mann on the importance of getting face to face with one’s heroes.
From now on all comments along the lines of ‘fail,’ ‘this looks like student work,’ or ‘the designer should be fired,’ will be deleted at my own discretion without notification or explanation.
Nerd Boyfriend
A “sort of archival Sartorialist for nerd heroes and icons”, where the author identifies and links to garments that her subjects might be wearing. (via Adam Lisagor)
Tiny Art Director
Bill Zeman blogs art critiques of his work from his four-year-old daughter. Hilarious. (via Greg Wood)
Second Sight
Philip Matthews, the New Zealand Listener’s best past film reviewer, has been keeping a blog that no one told me about. Short, perceptive writing about film, consider me subscribed. (via Ant Timpson)
Google Blog Search went from being incredibly useful to utterly useless for me.
— John Gruber on the changes to Google Blog Search that result in all links (including sidebar and footer links) being returned as new blog content. Same result here, the service is pretty much useless, especially for our work-related searches.
On most large sites, comment threads are followed by editors, authors, or community managers already. Any of these people could write milemarkers that summarize important parts of the conversation.
— Jason Santa Maria suggests “milemarkers” for long comment threads as a way of cultivating conversations. This could be pretty useful.
The Designers Review of Books
A promising new resource for design-related materials. (via Jason Santa Maria)
