Category Archives: web
The US Congress doesn’t understand the Internet
Recently, I received an email from Nancy Pelosi: Apparently no one explained to her (despite representing Internet central), that scanning your letterhead and pasting it in to your email is a bad idea. It looks worse when it’s on a … Continue reading
Don’t hire Judi Newberry
Who needs an “SEO Mavin” anyway?
SXSW Interactive Panel Proposal: Abort? Retry? Failwhale? Making Error Messages Suck Less
I’ve proposed a panel for SXSW Interactive: Abort? Retry? Failwhale? Making Error Messages Suck Less. Here’s how I described it: An unknown error occurred. Call your system administrator. Abort/retry/fail? Bad errors are everywhere. Sure, complain on twitter. But how do … Continue reading
A Chrome funny
I’ve been playing with the prerelease version of Chrome for Mac OS X and found a rather amusing bug:
Classmates.com is phoning it in
Good ol’ Fklsdjf Fldskf;!
Translink, you’re breaking my heart
I finally (finally!) got my Translink card. So excited! It now joins my BART EZ Rider card, my MBTA CharlieCard and my WMATA SmarTrip card. (Aside: TTC and (NY)MTA, get on this.) Inside the envelope are several letters and brochures. … Continue reading
Citability.org slidecast
Citability looks like a terrific, useful project: Citability.org: Using advanced permalinks to make government information more accessible, reliable, and transparent View more presentations from Adrian Parsons.
HOWTO read and pronounce URLs
URLs usually appear in written form — online or on paper. Sometimes, URLs are spoken aloud. You’ll often hear URLs read out: during television and radio advertisements in voicemail messages on conference calls So what? Well, almost everyone gets it … Continue reading
gap.com == fail
Store hours? What store hours? The Gap web site was clearly not designed by anyone who actually wanted to shop. It might have been designed by people who wanted to sell things, but that doesn’t help me. So what’s wrong? … Continue reading