Danger Mouse is a musician perhaps most know for his The Grey Album which is a mashup of Jay-Z’s The Black Album and the Beatles’ The White Album. The album is often used as an example of the tension between remix culture and restrictive copyright law and the DMCA.
Danger Mouse appears to be exploring [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
providing uncopyable experiences
19 May 09 – 3:45 pm
walking paper cross stitch
18 May 09 – 7:48 am
An amazing gift! The color scheme matches the site perfectly.
What I’ve Learned in the 21st Century by Steve Krug
14 May 09 – 9:24 am
Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think is a favorite of mine. Taking the two hours to read it will give you a bunch of ideas about how to make your website better.
I was happy to see that Krug uploaded a presentation he recently gave to slideshare. The slides are entertaining and [...]
library signs are librarian metadata
13 May 09 – 1:49 pm
I interlibrary loaned a book called “Life Style” by Canadian designer Bruce Mau after enjoying his book “Massive Change.” I knew that Mau was involved with some of the planning of the Seattle Public Library but didn’t expect to see a statement about library signage that would resonate so strongly.
It is not without heart-breaking [...]
new creating future libraries notebooks available
11 May 09 – 2:00 am
The first Creating Future Libraries notebook sold out in a week! WP03 – the second edition of CFL notebooks is now available. Those that preordered have theirs en route already.
They’re still only $3 each but this time the pages are grid. YES.
For more info, including a [...]
two neat browsing interfaces
5 May 09 – 1:00 am
Here are two new to me display/organization techniques.
#1: Stylous.com let’s you chose facets by clicking pictures.
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#2: I find fancy architecture firm websites to be some of the least usable websites around. This might not be an exception, but the websites from diller scofidio + renfro achieves a CoolIris type effect (by using Flash).
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you can make your website better in five seconds
4 May 09 – 1:00 am
Here’s a way that you can see if your webpages are doing what you want them to do.
As the name suggests, the 5-Second Test involves showing users a single content page for a quick 5 seconds to gather their initial impressions. Five seconds may not seem like a lot of time, but users make important [...]
deep participation in library catalogs
Last week An Event Apart, billed as “two days of peace, love, design, code, and content” took place in Seattle. I kept up with some of the stuff going on there and noticed this tweet. I saw it while Jared Spool was speaking and knew that he’s done work with Amazon so I [...]