Lessons learned from a great example of interaction design that made for a poor product.

Don’t send me an email through Facebook or Flickr or whatever. Just email me at my real email address.

An idea for a crowdsourced archive of the way mobile and tablet apps evolve.

I answered a few questions for this recently-launched social list-making site.

It turns out I’m not alone in my desire for better contact management within Twitter.

In its quest for transformation, will the movie service leave behind thousands of the titles it currently carries?

Getting home inventory software on the cloud would get me to inventory my own stuff.

Radiohead’s new album was long-awaited before it came out of nowhere.

“The Social Network” is the new American archetype for winning, through and through.

Twitter is trying to centralize a brand experience that has been stridently un-centralized.

That feeling of nagging guilt that comes with neglected social media.

Tune in Friday as I take on Nicholas Felton in an exhibit match of Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis.

How much does it take to embrace a social network? As much as you can give.

Of all the great digital ideas at this year’s SXSW, what’s nagged at me most concerns print.

Scale and intimacy at the annual South by Southwest Interactive festival.

My experience switching to Google Reader and reflecting on the state of RSS aggregators.

As digital music has become more pervasive, the ritual of attending the live performance of pop music seems more and more superfluous.

As an interaction designer, if I’m not actively using social networks, then I’m just not doing my job.

What the failure of banks like Washington Mutual can teach us about Web applications.

To my surprise, Rumplo is an entertaining good time.

RSS readers are like junk drawers that won’t listen to you.

Sadly giving up on One Laptop per Child.

A little bit of video for Command-Shift-3.

An argument why authors and editors should not fear the New Brevity.

A report from my three speaking appearances this weekend, including slides.

The way you use your software should stick with you.

Why are you’re reading this post this week?

What YouTube is good for.

Ways in which I’m definitely not planning on acquiring my own iPhone.

John Gruber appearing for AIGA in SoHo tomorrow night!

There is no perfect system for dealing with your email.

My official and mostly unsurprising endorsements for The Webby Awards.

Looking ahead at all the social networks I’ll join in 2007.

No thanks to RSS, there’s just too much to read in too little time.

Getting things done with Kinkless Getting Things Done.

Hoping someone will create a Cocoa version of kGTD with a true database.

I’m switching to Linux… for just a bit.

Voting is open for proposed sessions at South by Southwest 2007.

What calling famous people can do for your career.

Six Apart’s Vox is a beautiful work-in-progress.

Trying to make the best of an emerging standard.

For the May 1st Reboot, Jeff Croft hit a home run.

Lamenting the state of affairs for Six Apart’s pioneering blog publishing software.

What do you listen to when you write in the blogosphere?

Maybe I’ll go to the I.A. summit next year, but why should I?

For once, I’m not the problem.

In lieu of live blogging, some after the fact bullets on my SXSW experience.

Just finished talking about design with a bunch of design-heads.

Newsvine aims to hybridize the unwashed masses and the mainstream media.

The most glaring of the un-index-able content types can now be indexed.

The intrepid cousin to Firefox makes releases its version 1.0 today.

On the lookout for interaction design examples that deserve to a spot in a museum.

Lists of things that you may not have known about me.

If you turn a long URL into a short one, shouldn’t it be all yours?

Waiting for the next version of OmniWeb, and the perfect browser, whichever comes first.

Any publicity is good publicity, right?

The fact that most of us only have one mobile phone handset has always struck me as pretty lame.

Camino, king of the uphill battle.

With a sense of futility, I present my musical baton.

When it comes to social bookmarks, Del.icio.us is the winner, but not without its faults.

Someone’s ripping off somebody’s design.

Until last week, you could count me among the podcasting skeptics.

RSS feeds take a lot of energy, but where do people find the time?

The continuously degrading performance of home broadband.

We’re living in a secret agent future, where everything is locked away.

The Perceptionists are everywhere, right before our eyes.

Why it’s not completely crazy to expect the Mac OS to remain stable under duress from third-party system enhancements.

People that I met at South by Southwest.

So long, Austin, it’s been great.

On the third day, the second report from SXSW.

Some unordered notes on what I’ve seen so far at SXSW 2005.

Something about music collections makes some people very, very fussy.

How much I really, really dislike Apple’s recent lawsuits.

Last week I decided to count how many iPods I see on my walk to work.

Disposable income and an incurable addiction to stuff from Cupertino.

How to create the perfect sketchbook with less than ten dollars’ worth of office supplies.

What is a blog, weblogs as fiction, and other vague, ill-formed ideas about the medium.

If I let you know where I am, what’s that mean for this weblog?

Is it good manners to open links in a new window? What the heck do you know?

Rumors in advance of next week’s Macworld Expo have me a little worked up.

My Firefox usage is growing every day, thanks to two small tweaks I’ve made to it.

The search for the perfect XML news reader.

You need more links?

Social networking, doggie style.

The ghosts of a once-high flying dotcom haunts the Internet still.

A year with five Alienware machines and an HP.

How I upgraded to Mac OS X Panther.

How impulse shopping helps baseball trump literature.

A round-up of some recent, uncharacteristically high quality articles about the Mac.

It’s nice to spend the holiday weekend in New York, bu don’t count on Citysearch.

Browsers are to blame for how bad BuyMusic.com is — partly.

Two reasons why I’m sure there will be another Internet boom.

Last hurrah for Macworld New York.

Succumbing to Friendster foolishness.

Longtime, well-liked software publisher Casady & Greene have closed shop.

A ‘Mac-like’ ad makes me feel old.

This preview of “Half-Life 2” is ridiculous.

Starship Dimensions settles arguments between science fiction geeks.

This video of a 1968 Douglas Englebart presentation is historically significant and uncommonly beautiful.

As I prepare to officially release Six.5, a few words on what I’m looking to get out of it.

SixApart Ltd., makers of Movable Type, are really on the move, and it signals the next phase of Internet innovation.

The rules that govern this blog and the posts that I make to it.

It was on this day thirty years ago that the very first mobile phone call was made.

RSS is fun, and NetNewsWire is a great RSS client.

Motorola’s somewhat self-serving “Mobile” exhibit is no big deal.

Congratulations to the SXSW winners, even if Gain 2.0 was not one of them.

My third contribution to the Squat CD exchange club just went out in the mail. Whew!

Francis Lam’s new revision of db-db.com is a triumph for design esoterica.

A marriage made in heaven: Google has bought Pyra.

Business 2.0 takes a look inside Electronic Arts.

This is the story of a boy and his chat bot.

Possibly being a charter member of the Squat CD swap club may or may not be a really cool thing.

Stirrings and murmurs on TidBITS Talk.

You’re invited to war.

I sheepishly admit that “Computers, An Illustrated History” is probably the perfect book for me.

Chilling Effects is a showcase for scary corporate bullying.

SpamNet has a plan for getting rid of spam.

A notable quote from Lawrence Lessig.

This is a post about This Is a Magazine.

Lawrence Lessig has a wake-up call for anyone frustrated with the way media companies are trying to dominate copyright controls.

Mad scientist Chris Fahey is tooling around in the lab for Rhizome.

Take a look at Soundload.

How one man foiled a scam.

OpenOffice.org aims to kick the shit out of Microsoft Office.

A map of New York City bloggers.

Internet radio at risk.

Fan-made films made in tribute to “Star Wars.”

Francis Lam’s db-db is a tiny pixel playground.

Boxes and Arrows is a new Web magazine for information architects.

Google is doing some interesting stuff.

Lawrence Lessig has an idea called Creative Commons.

The rise and fall of a dotcom.

Google programming contest.

Old conceptual drawings from the golden age of Atari.

VeriSign is a bunch of sneaky bastards.

Notes from the Blogger Pro demonstration.

Dave Winer is all about blogging.

Michael Lewis got “Next.”

Community-owned wireless access.

Rick Lyman on the impending movie season.

I just wanted to remember Workbuyconsumedie.

Admitting complicity in the dot-com bubble.

Blogdex is great meta information.

Amazon made a little store just for me.

How I learned to forget Napster and get on with KaZaA.

Will Lee is making board games in Brooklyn.

Jason Kottke has a terrific Web site.

A few random links and notes.

Surfing the Web can save lives.

Get out the vote for Blogger.

Motient Corporation and Rare Medium to merge. Pphhft.

Majestic is a new-breed video game that invades your life.

The ostentatious BMW Films marketing campaign.

Happy Easter, software lovers.

Even brand asset management can be shoehorned into an ASP businss model!

Agency.com, Organic and Razorfish will be consolidated.

The prestige level of an Internet job has declined.

In Australia, it can be illegal to forward email.

Everyone’s scared: Sapient just announced massive layoffs.

ActiveBuddy makes over instant messaging.

“Reboot” is an organized effort to launch dozens of redesigned Web sites on the same day.

Experiences trying to book a plane ticket on the Web.

Steven Johnson takes a look at the anachronistic UI metaphors in music software.

Bill Hewlett, pionering co-founder of HP, passed away a few days ago.

“Narrative is the original interface.”

A list of movies, books, magazines and other pop junk that came my way in the year 2000.