There is a really good article in the San Francisco Chronicle today about the Community team at flickr – run by Heather Champ. The article discusses the dilemmas and decisions the team Heather leads makes when confronted with millions of people interacting and sometimes misbehaving. Part art, part rulebook, a lot of gut on just…
i was having a phone conversation today with a potential client and professional colleague when she asked me if i had thought about submitting a proposal to the IA Summit – for the management track – about my transition out of traditional management. We were talking about my transition from being a manager of managers,…
Folks who know me, know that I spend most of my spare time being a photographer. I spend time out photographing landscapes and other things that interest me to stay creatively fulfilled. I spend hours and hours on the computer in the digital darkroom – which was supposed to make our lives easier – but…
I am currently working on the suite of patterns around joining social sites. the patterns start with registration and then include, sign in, sign in continuity, welcome area, receive invitation, send invitation, sign out, private beta and the password anti-pattern. it’s been interesting writing these. my team at yahoo! worked on the registration redesign last…
If you like music you should compare your list to this one: http://www.1000recordings.com
@chromatic when I was househunting, I looked at at least 2 places that had chickens and ducks in the garden
secured my tix to the decemberists in november – yay!
hmm-twitter tools widget on wordpress is not bringing in my tweets…I hate when i start new tech projects just as I should be going to bed
just unlocked my updates so I can pull my tweets onto my blog – I still don’t know why people I don’t know care but there you are…
whoa – twitter did a redesign push in the last hour
experiencing weird synching of direct tweets between twhirl, iphone sms and email – time lags galore
heads down working on site architecture, wireframes and content spreadsheets – I miss people!
dinner at slow club w @chromatic. lively discussion about his new work environment! good food, good company
apologies for how quiet I have been for the last several weeks. I have been deep in the thick of writing and boy is it fun. The first chapter of our book, Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns and Best Practices sets some context and a bit of history – which if you know me at…
@soldierant yay! so glad to hear that!