May 2013
May 25th
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May 21st
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Bugs doing weird bug butt things.
May 18th
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May 15th
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May 11th
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I found another great use for my tiny web browser app, Little Bro. My coworkers love it!!
May 11th
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May 9th
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May 2nd
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April 2013
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5by5 | The Big Web Show #88: Greg Storey →
Everyone must rush out and listen to the latest episode of The Big Web Show, during which web pioneers Jeffrey Zeldman and Greg Storey of Happy Cog discuss the work we’ve been doing at XOXCO on Packagr. Greg says some very nice things about our new publishing tool.
Apr 12th
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This video shows the slides for my hour long talk on reader aware design and building a back catalog, to be delivered at tonight’s Refresh Austin event, compressed down into 10 seconds.
Apr 9th
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“It would seem that Katie is a time-release crazy. Last night, after we had sex...”
– From My Real World Diary By Ben Brown, circa 2003. Please note that this is NOT about my wonderful wife Katie, but rather about a make believe person in no way based on Katie herself or any experience she or I ever had, together or separately. But 2003 Ben, I want to tell you that you are awesome...
Apr 6th
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Where do old posts go when they die?
This post originally appeared as part of XOXCO Dispatch #1. Sign up now to be among the first to read our posts. It is amazing how much content is poured onto the web every day. Just yesterday, our friends over at Pando Daily posted nearly 9,000 words of original writing on their site in form of 14 essays. The homepage holds only 16 posts, which means that some time this weekend, all 9,000 of...
Apr 2nd
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March 2013
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Mar 30th
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Mar 26th
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Unintended consequences - I can mix two images together into a generative polygonal drawing. Yes, I crossed Justin Bieber and Paul Krugman.
Mar 26th
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A teaser of something I’m working on for XOXCO Dispatch. Subscribe now, first issue goes out on Friday.
Mar 26th
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Mar 24th
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Today was Zelda’s first birthday party. She had a bunch of baby friends come over to eat a special banana cake that Katie made. It was pretty much a disgusting mess of cute babies being cute. It is great to be a dad.
Mar 24th
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“Yet in an chatroom, somewhere, a hidden group decided this was no good and they...”
– Donglegate: Why aren’t we questioning what Anonymous did? More signs of the coming hackerpocalypse. Will it be Chinese soldiers or anonymous twenty-something’s who pull the trigger first?
Mar 24th
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All hail the archive: A secret weapon that... →
I was quoted extensively in this piece on Pando Daily about the vast resources of good content we have in our website archives. I’m quite interested in this subject and have been posting a lot about it over here.
Mar 23rd
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Mar 19th
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I spent a few minutes hooking my polygon drawing software up to the Leap Motion, and now I am indistinguishable from a magician. Watch as I make colorful shapes by waggling my fingertips in the air.
Mar 16th
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Mar 14th
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The Neal Pollack Invasion, playing their 10th anniversary reunion show at SXSW. I went on tour with Neal and Dakota on the occasion of their first (and only) record, and it is an experience I will forever cherish (and have nightmares about.)
Mar 14th
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Last night I had the distinct honor of being the pop up bar tender on the RVIP. I served a vodka drink to Eugene Mirman! This is a video my friend Tim took of me behind the bar.
Mar 13th
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Mar 10th
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Listen to me on the ATX Web Show Podcast
Dave and Travis had me on their show to talk about Aware.js, Breakpoints.js, reader aware design, your back catalog of content, and Packagr. Learn the secrets of my career, hear me rant about blog archives, and as a special bonus, find out how our BBQ pit keeps their meat secure overnight. Listen here.
Mar 6th
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New York Times reporting on Transformers and My... →
Mar 2nd
February 2013
SXSW Mentoring with Ben Brown →
SXSW has kindly invited me to participate in their mentorship program. On Monday, March 11 between 12:30 and 1:30, I’ll be available to answer your questions about technology, entrepreneurship, Javascript, publishing, or pixel art. Slots are limited, so sign up now if you want to pick my brain in an official capacity.
Feb 27th
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Your Back Catalog
The way we design and publish content for the web usually puts all of the focus on the newest material. The latest article is posted at the top of the homepage, and everything that came before it moves down one slot. For many sites, this means that an article only lives for a few hours or days before it is sent to the archives - not nearly long enough to deliver its full value to the publisher and...
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