Around the Word with Web Talent
My first book didn't sell very well but it had an effect on people's hearts. Web designers around the world circulated a single copy of <cite>Taking Your Talent to the Web</cite>, adding their autographs, drawings, photos, and other verbal and visual messages to every page—even the covers and spine.

ALA No. 262: Binding & Subversion
In <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/issues/262">Issue No. 262</a> of <cite>A List Apart</cite>, for people who make websites, Ryan Irelan invites us to <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/collaboratewithsubversion">collaborate and connect with Subversion</a>, and Christophe Porteneuve explains how to <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/getoutbindingsituations">get out of binding situations in JavaScript</a>.

Lube Tube
<a href="http://www.basecamphq.com/?referrer=JEFFREYZELDMAN">Friedrolling</a>: <em>vt.</em> Gratuitously posting Basecamp referral links disguised as tweets or blog posts.

Office Koan No. 37
Speakeasy will only honor my request to discontinue DSL service in my old office if I call the company from my old phone number, which I no longer have access to because I moved out.

Life Needs a Rewind Button
The new office is so new to me that I entered the address incorrectly while ordering CS3 suites for the studio. Amazon is consequently rush-delivering Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, and Fireworks to the wrong address, and it's too late to change the address on the order. Someone in Harlem is going to be very happy.

What happened here
This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has seen everything from drug withdrawal to the first stirrings of childbirth. Happiness, anguish, farting and honeymoons. Everything. Everything but death.

AEA Boston 2008 session notes
Linked session notes and downloads from An Event Apart Boston 2008.

So long, Boston. We?ll be back.
An Event Apart Boston 2008 is over but the memories and photos linger on. Eric and I started An Event Apart because we saw the need for a live, concentrated, learning and sharing experience about best practices and inspiration for the standards-based web design community. Thanks to brilliant speakers, phenomenally dedicated and supremely competent staff, [...]

Video: Jeff Veen on Data Overload
Live onstage at An Event Apart New, Jeff Veen explains the magnitude of data we process every hour, and the responsibility of designers to help us make sense of it.

Dialog from life
"I want a baby sister."

Art direction on the web?
On Tuesday morning, while Malarkey was furiously getting himself permanently uninvited to Håkon Lie’s Christmas parties, and the jungle drums spoke of nothing but Firefox 3, Jason Santa Maria quietly slipped a torpedo into the harbor. He didn’t just redesign his website, he issued a call to arms. And what he called for was real art direction on the web.

Video: Cameron Moll on natural mapping
<a href="http://www.aneventapart.com/news/2008/06/designer_cameron_moll_on_natural_mapping_1.php">Onstage at An Event Apart New Orleans</a>, 2008, designer Cameron Moll discusses what happens when a computer novice bumps heads with a computer expert. HD video by Bonnemaison of Baltimore, MD. Edited by Ian Corey. The next show is <a href="http://www.aneventapart.com/events/2008/boston/">An Event Apart Boston</a>, June 23–24, 2008.

ALA 261: CSS layout redux; in praise of prototyping
CSS layout is awesome, except when your layout calls for a header, a footer, and columns in between. "Faux Absolute Positioning" combines the strengths (and removes the weaknesses) of absolute positioning and float-based layouts. Plus: the rise of Ajax and rich internet applications has thrown the limitations of traditional wireframing into painful relief. "Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping" can help you focus on what you're building and convey its impact and "magic" to that all-important stakeholder.

Number Nine
Early this morning, in my last deep sleep, I was tormented by a nightmare concerning our three-year-old. In my dream, she was chasing some happy bauble. Call it a big floating bubble filled with sunshine. The bubble blew out of the park. She ran after it. I ran after her. The bubble floated above a big [...]

Video: Got Live in New Orleans
Caught live at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008, video clips featuring <a href="http://www.aneventapart.com/news/2008/06/video_andy_clarke_on_web_layout.php">Andy Clarke on web layout</a> and <a href="http://www.aneventapart.com/news/2008/06/video_zeldman_on_journalism_and_the_web_1.php">yours truly on journalism and the web</a> are now online for your viewing pleasure at An Event Apart's website. More video clips are on their way. Keep watching the skies.