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  32. <title>The Valley of Hidden Sorrows</title>
  33. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/25/the-valley-of-hidden-sorrows/</link>
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  35. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  36. <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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  46. <description><![CDATA[<p>I have this friend. A mountain of unexpected medical debt buried his family at the start of last year. At the same time, the closing of his business stuck him with six figures of personal debt. Liquidating a retirement account and maxing out credit cards bought him short-term breathing room. Mostly, though, it added interest [&#8230;]</p>
  47. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/25/the-valley-of-hidden-sorrows/">The Valley of Hidden Sorrows</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  50. <p class="has-large-font-size">I have this friend. A mountain of unexpected medical debt buried his family at the start of last year. At the same time, the closing of his business stuck him with six figures of personal debt. Liquidating a retirement account and maxing out credit cards bought him short-term breathing room. Mostly, though, it added interest charges and tax penalties to what he already owed. </p>
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  54. <p>A year on, the debts still crush him, and the poor fellow only just manages to keep his family housed, fed, and safe. I should add that he’s a professional who enjoys a great job with a generous salary and terrific benefits. One of the lucky people. Privileged, even. Somebody you’d expect to be quite comfortable. But he wakes in fear each morning.</p>
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  58. <p>To all who struggle in these times, be kind to others and gentle with yourself.</p>
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  63. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/25/the-valley-of-hidden-sorrows/">The Valley of Hidden Sorrows</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  69. <title>AI Roundup: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Pretty Cool</title>
  70. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/24/ai-roundup-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-pretty-cool/</link>
  71. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/24/ai-roundup-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-pretty-cool/#comments</comments>
  72. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  73. <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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  86.  
  87. <description><![CDATA[<p>Pieces of the web that make differing and complementary sense of the threat and promise of AI.</p>
  88. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/24/ai-roundup-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-pretty-cool/">AI Roundup: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Pretty Cool</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  91. <p class="has-large-font-size"><em>Ay, ay, AI!</em> Hype, fear, and strongly voiced opinions—the traditional currency of internet conversation—are unequal to this moment, where the Fate of Everything<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> dangles from a single gossamer thread. So here are four useful links to pieces of the web that make differing and complementary sense of the threat and promise of AI.</p>
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  96. <p>Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101—north to San Francisco, south to Palo Alto—and every single billboard is advertising some kind of AI company. Every business plan has the word “AI” in it, even if the business itself has no AI in it&#8230;<br><br>Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave something behind, and the ones that leave&nbsp;<em>nothing&nbsp;</em>behind. Sometimes, it can be hard to guess what kind of bubble you’re living through until it pops and you find out the hard way&#8230;</p>
  97. <cite><a href="https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/">Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?</a></cite></blockquote>
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  102. <p>de Vries calculates that by 2027 the AI sector could consume between 85 to 134 terawatt hours each year. That’s about the same as the annual energy demand of de Vries’ home country, the Netherlands.&nbsp;</p>
  103. <cite><a href="https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption">The Verge: How much electricity does AI consume?</a></cite></blockquote>
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  108. <p>The Elements of AI is a series of free online courses created by MinnaLearn and the University of Helsinki. We want to encourage as broad a group of people as possible to learn what AI is, what can (and can’t) be done with AI, and how to start creating AI methods. The courses combine theory with practical exercises and can be completed at your own pace.</p>
  109. <cite><a href="https://www.elementsofai.com/">Elements of AI</a></cite></blockquote>
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  114. <p>We define&nbsp;<em>AI literacy&nbsp;</em>as a set of competencies that enables individuals to critically evaluate AI technologies; communicate and collaborate effectively with AI; and use AI as a tool online, at home, and in the workplace.&nbsp;We conducted an extensive review of literature (see&nbsp;<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3313831.3376727">paper</a>) and distilled a set of key AI literacy competencies and considerations for designing AI literacy learning interventions, which can be used to guide future educational initiatives as well as foster discussion and debate in the AI education field. This page lists and describes the competencies and design considerations that we have outlined.</p>
  115. <cite><a href="https://aiunplugged.lmc.gatech.edu/ai-literacy/">AI Unplugged</a></cite></blockquote>
  116. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/24/ai-roundup-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-pretty-cool/">AI Roundup: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Pretty Cool</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  122. <title>CAPTCHA excludes disabled web users</title>
  123. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/22/captcha-excludes-disabled-web-users/</link>
  124. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/22/captcha-excludes-disabled-web-users/#respond</comments>
  125. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  126. <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 11:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
  127. <category><![CDATA[Accessibility]]></category>
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  143. <category><![CDATA[W3C]]></category>
  144. <category><![CDATA[Web Standards]]></category>
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  149. <description><![CDATA[<p>The W3C explains how CAPTCHA excludes disabled users, and suggests alternatives that may be kinder and more reliable.</p>
  150. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/22/captcha-excludes-disabled-web-users/">CAPTCHA excludes disabled web users</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  153. <p class="has-large-font-size">What’s widely used, no longer particularly effective, and makes web content inaccessible to many people with disabilities? It’s our old friend CAPTCHA! In a group note dated 16 December 2021, <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/">the W3C explains how CAPTCHA excludes disabled users</a>, and suggests alternatives which may be kinder and more reliable:</p>
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  158. <p>Various approaches have been employed over many years to distinguish human users of web sites from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#dfn-robot">robots</a>. The traditional&nbsp;<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#dfn-captcha">CAPTCHA</a>&nbsp;approach asking users to identify obscured text in an image remains common, but other approaches have emerged. All interactive approaches require users to perform a task believed to be relatively easy for humans but difficult for robots. Unfortunately the very nature of the interactive task inherently excludes many people with disabilities, resulting in a denial of service to these users. Research findings also indicate that many popular CAPTCHA techniques are no longer particularly effective or secure, further complicating the challenge of providing services secured from robotic intrusion yet accessible to people with disabilities. This document examines a number of approaches that allow systems to test for human users and the extent to which these approaches adequately accommodate people with disabilities, including recent non-interactive and tokenized approaches. We have grouped these approaches by two category classifications:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#stand-alone-approaches">Stand-Alone Approaches</a>&nbsp;that can be deployed on a web host without engaging the services of unrelated third parties and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#multi-party-approaches">Multi-Party Approaches</a>&nbsp;that engage the services of an unrelated third party.</p>
  159. <cite>W3C: <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/">Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web</a></cite></blockquote>
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  163. <p class="has-large-font-size">We can do better! <br><br>Tell your friends. Tell your boss. Tell your clients. <br><br>Tip o’ the blue beanie to <a href="https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/111953991452184910">Adrian Roselli</a>.</p>
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  167. <p></p>
  168. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/22/captcha-excludes-disabled-web-users/">CAPTCHA excludes disabled web users</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  174. <title>Heal an ailing web</title>
  175. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/16/heal-an-ailing-web/</link>
  176. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/16/heal-an-ailing-web/#comments</comments>
  177. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  178. <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
  179. <category><![CDATA[State of the Web]]></category>
  180. <category><![CDATA[W3C]]></category>
  181. <category><![CDATA[Web Standards]]></category>
  182. <category><![CDATA[Tim Berners-Lee]]></category>
  183. <category><![CDATA[web history]]></category>
  184. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://zeldman.com/?p=17796</guid>
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  186. <description><![CDATA[<p>Leadership, hindered by a lack of diversity, has steered away from a tool for public good and one that is instead subject to capitalist forces resulting in monopolisation. Governance, which should correct for this, has failed to do so.</p>
  187. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/16/heal-an-ailing-web/">Heal an ailing web</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  190. <p class="has-large-font-size">On the occasion of the web’s 35th anniversary, <a href="https://webfoundation.org/about/sir-tim-berners-lee/">its inventor</a> <a href="https://webfoundation.org/2024/03/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter/">had this to say</a>:</p>
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  195. <p>5 years ago, when the web turned 30,&nbsp;<a href="https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">I called out</a>&nbsp;some of the dysfunction caused by the web being dominated by the self-interest of several corporations that have eroded the web’s values and led to breakdown and harm. Now, 5 years on as we arrive at the Web’s 35th Birthday, the rapid advancement of AI has exacerbated these concerns, proving that issues on the web are not isolated but rather deeply intertwined with emerging technologies.&nbsp;</p>
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  199. <p>There are two clear, connected issues to address. The first is the extent of power concentration, which contradicts the decentralised spirit I originally envisioned. This has segmented the web, with a fight to keep users hooked on one platform to optimise profit through the passive observation of content. This exploitative business model is particularly grave in this year of elections that could unravel political turmoil. Compounding this issue is the second, the personal data market that has exploited people’s time and data with the creation of deep profiles that allow for targeted advertising and ultimately control over the information people are fed.</p>
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  203. <p>How has this happened? Leadership, hindered by a lack of diversity, has steered away from a tool for public good and one that is instead subject to capitalist forces resulting in monopolisation. Governance, which should correct for this, has failed to do so, with regulatory measures being outstripped by the rapid development of innovation, leading to a widening gap between technological advancements and effective oversight.</p>
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  207. <p>The future hinges on our ability to both reform the current system and create a new one that genuinely serves the best interests of humanity.&nbsp;</p>
  208. <cite><a href="https://webfoundation.org/2024/03/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter/">Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter from Tim Berners-Lee</a></cite></blockquote>
  209. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/16/heal-an-ailing-web/">Heal an ailing web</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  215. <title>Death of a father</title>
  216. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/14/death-of-a-father/</link>
  217. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/14/death-of-a-father/#respond</comments>
  218. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  219. <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
  220. <category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
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  222. <category><![CDATA[My Back Pages]]></category>
  223. <category><![CDATA[187]]></category>
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  225. <category><![CDATA[AOL]]></category>
  226. <category><![CDATA[Falling Down]]></category>
  227. <category><![CDATA[Samuel L. Jackson]]></category>
  228. <category><![CDATA[Time Warner]]></category>
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  233. <description><![CDATA[<p>Today Gerald Levin died. The world will remember him as the architect of the Time Warner AOL merger. But I think of him as a grieving father.</p>
  234. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/14/death-of-a-father/">Death of a father</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  237. <p class="has-large-font-size">“<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118531/"><strong>187</strong></a>” is a gorgeously lensed, strongly acted Samuel L. Jackson thriller, notable for its sun-dazzled Los Angeles setting, complex morality, and breakthrough trip-hop soundtrack.&nbsp;It would likely have been widely discussed at the time of its release, and might still be remembered, like the not thematically dissimilar “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118531/">Falling Down</a>”—filmed in the same city and released by the same studio a few years prior—if not for a horrible and tragic event.</p>
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  241. <p>187 is the story of a high-minded, humanistic public high school teacher (Jackson) who, after surviving a brutal assault by one of his students (Method Man, in one of his first film appearances!), fights back. </p>
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  245. <p>Vigilantism was hardly a fresh plot driver in 1997, but 187’s writer, director, and cast took it to unexpected and rewarding places. 187 challenged expectations. It deserved an audience.</p>
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  249. <p>Unfortunately for the film, 187’s release was overshadowed by a horrific real-life event. That year, Jonathan Levin, a public high school teacher, was murdered by one of his former students. <br><br>It was the kind of murder—tragic, senseless—that might have gone unnoticed by the press if not for one thing: Jonathan was the son of newly appointed Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin. <br><br>In the aftermath of the new Warner CEO’s son’s murder, there was no way that Warner Bros could promote a film about a high school teacher who kills his students. Warner buried the film by giving it a limited release with zero promotion. </p>
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  253. <p>I remember seeing 187 in a semi-private screening room before <a href="https://zeldman.com/15/main.html">interviewing its star</a> for Warner Bros, whose Executive Vice President of Marketing was my client at the time. The film’s moody music and cinematography transported me. I felt deeply engaged by the story, and riveted by Jackson’s performance. And, needless to say, I was also horrified to learn of Jonathan Levin’s murder. <br><br>Today’s <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/gerald-levin-dies-former-time-warner-ceo-84-1235858151/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/obituaries/gerald-m-levin-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck0.iPvC.Osa_cx1l886F&amp;smid=url-share">d</a><a href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/gerald-levin-dies-former-time-warner-ceo-84-1235858151/">eath notice of Gerald M. Levin</a> brought it all back in a Proustian rush. </p>
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  257. <p>Deadline-driven topic-sentence journalists will remember Gerald Levin as the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/gerald-levin-dead-architect-aol-time-warner-merger-1235852261/">architect of the ill-fated, oh-so-90s <em>Time Warner AOL</em> merger</a>. But I will always think of him as a grieving father.</p>
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  261. <p><em>Rest in peace.</em></p>
  262. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/14/death-of-a-father/">Death of a father</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  268. <title>Open-source moderation</title>
  269. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/13/open-source-moderation/</link>
  270. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/13/open-source-moderation/#respond</comments>
  271. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  272. <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
  273. <category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>
  274. <category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
  275. <category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
  276. <category><![CDATA[State of the Web]]></category>
  277. <category><![CDATA[Bluesky]]></category>
  278. <category><![CDATA[Federated]]></category>
  279. <category><![CDATA[moderation]]></category>
  280. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://zeldman.com/?p=17770</guid>
  281.  
  282. <description><![CDATA[<p>“Our online experience doesn’t have to depend on billionaires unilaterally making decisions over what we see.”</p>
  283. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/13/open-source-moderation/">Open-source moderation</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
  284. ]]></description>
  285. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  286. <p class="has-large-font-size"><a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation">Bluesky introduces open-source, collaborative moderation for federated social media websites</a>:</p>
  287.  
  288.  
  289.  
  290. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  291. <p>Bluesky was created to put&nbsp;<a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web">users and communities in control</a>&nbsp;of their social spaces online. The first generation of social media platforms connected the world, but ended up consolidating power in the hands of a few corporations and their leaders. Our online experience doesn’t have to depend on billionaires unilaterally making decisions over what we see. On an open social network like Bluesky, you can shape your experience for yourself.</p>
  292.  
  293.  
  294.  
  295. <p><strong>Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/bluesky-social/ozone-ui">open-sourcing Ozone</a>, our collaborative moderation tool. </strong></p>
  296. <cite><a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation">Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation</a></cite></blockquote>
  297.  
  298.  
  299.  
  300. <p><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4a1.png" alt="💡" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />  Might it also work for <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/21/in-search-of-a-digital-town-square/">Mastodon and Threads</a>?</p>
  301.  
  302.  
  303.  
  304. <p><br></p>
  305. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/13/open-source-moderation/">Open-source moderation</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  310. <item>
  311. <title>New music from the beyond</title>
  312. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/05/new-music-from-the-beyond/</link>
  313. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/05/new-music-from-the-beyond/#comments</comments>
  314. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  315. <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
  316. <category><![CDATA[launches]]></category>
  317. <category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
  318. <category><![CDATA[Pete Zeldman]]></category>
  319. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://zeldman.com/?p=17752</guid>
  320.  
  321. <description><![CDATA[<p>Happy heavenly birthday to my dear, deceased, devil brother Pete Zeldman. Today, 5 March 2024, to celebrate Pete’s life… Lost in Sound Records is releasing an album of solo drums, Enigma, which will keep rhythmic enthusiasts and scholars busy for…well, forever.&#160;And ALSO 2.5D, his crazy interesting NYC rock band… [has released] its first single. —Cindy [&#8230;]</p>
  322. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/05/new-music-from-the-beyond/">New music from the beyond</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
  323. ]]></description>
  324. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  325. <p>Happy heavenly birthday to my dear, deceased, devil brother Pete Zeldman. Today, 5 March 2024, to celebrate Pete’s life…</p>
  326.  
  327.  
  328.  
  329. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  330. <p><a href="https://www.lostinsoundrecords.com/">Lost in Sound Records</a> is releasing an album of solo drums, <a href="https://www.lostinsoundrecords.com/releases-1/enigma">Enigma</a>, which will keep rhythmic enthusiasts and scholars busy for…well, forever.&nbsp;And ALSO <a href="https://www.facebook.com/2.5DMusic?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWKMNljlCbB5y8v6f2of32tuTljU5-aAnAVnKhMNZ8iJcZXYqkExMOsMZkY8DZrh_wYbwFeuHge04jRJodNqj9CagXDRsvXYBdwrO1Muw4Fez4kSFwDdISrJAVIzQMGDLxT67FiUZP89rQVBDAzEni1ataCqdAHkEe2X-qQLXgjMFmcUW_obGHdfW2RMvk-xvY&amp;__tn__=-%5DK-R">2.5D</a>, his crazy interesting NYC rock band… [has released] its first single.</p>
  331. <cite>—<a href="https://www.facebook.com/cindy.shapiro/posts/pfbid022pp8itY6k9rkQk1irpuekmoZGhq6uAp4ULj6wzeiVoz8fPrQFPpm1PECrLkFDTcul">Cindy Shapiro</a></cite></blockquote>
  332.  
  333.  
  334.  
  335. <p>Hear that single, written by Pete, performed with fire by 2.5D, and released roughly 30 years after the fact:</p>
  336.  
  337.  
  338.  
  339. <ul>
  340. <li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1sbYnHE0BLsaXojdbalnlW?si=7bfbce47472548dd">Stream “I Don’t Wanna Feel” on Spotify</a></li>
  341.  
  342.  
  343.  
  344. <li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-dont-wanna-feel-single/1729339191">Stream “I Don’t Wanna Feel” on Apple Music</a></li>
  345.  
  346.  
  347.  
  348. <li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-dont-wanna-feel-single/1729339191">Preview and purchase on iTunes Store</a></li>
  349. </ul>
  350.  
  351.  
  352.  
  353. <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pete.zeldman">Wish Pete a happy birthday</a> on Facebook. You never know; whatever plane Pete now inhabits, he just might hear you.</p>
  354.  
  355.  
  356.  
  357. <p><em>Related:</em></p>
  358.  
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  360.  
  361. <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-zeldman-on-web-and-interaction-design wp-block-embed-zeldman-on-web-and-interaction-design"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  362. <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="07LDSuyCPY"><a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/01/27/about-pete/">About Pete</a></blockquote><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" title="&#8220;About Pete&#8221; &#8212; Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design" src="https://zeldman.com/2023/01/27/about-pete/embed/#?secret=vcxi4T7OwN#?secret=07LDSuyCPY" data-secret="07LDSuyCPY" width="580" height="327" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
  363. </div></figure>
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  365.  
  366.  
  367. <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-zeldman-on-web-and-interaction-design wp-block-embed-zeldman-on-web-and-interaction-design"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  368. <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="GlnzF4AzpV"><a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/03/20/valediction/">Valediction</a></blockquote><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" title="&#8220;Valediction&#8221; &#8212; Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design" src="https://zeldman.com/2023/03/20/valediction/embed/#?secret=lKozeQtRFS#?secret=GlnzF4AzpV" data-secret="GlnzF4AzpV" width="580" height="327" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
  369. </div></figure>
  370.  
  371.  
  372.  
  373. <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-zeldman-on-web-and-interaction-design wp-block-embed-zeldman-on-web-and-interaction-design"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  374. <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="gPRWn4DaRk"><a href="https://zeldman.com/2012/10/23/my-brother-is-a-monster/">My Brother is a Monster</a></blockquote><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" title="&#8220;My Brother is a Monster&#8221; &#8212; Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design" src="https://zeldman.com/2012/10/23/my-brother-is-a-monster/embed/#?secret=Bqa3a6bVk3#?secret=gPRWn4DaRk" data-secret="gPRWn4DaRk" width="580" height="327" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
  375. </div></figure>
  376. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/05/new-music-from-the-beyond/">New music from the beyond</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  382. <title>“Where the people are”</title>
  383. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/02/where-the-people-are/</link>
  384. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2024/03/02/where-the-people-are/#comments</comments>
  385. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  386. <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 14:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
  387. <category><![CDATA[A Book Apart]]></category>
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  434. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://zeldman.com/?p=17741</guid>
  435.  
  436. <description><![CDATA[<p>Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.</p>
  437. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/02/where-the-people-are/">“Where the people are”</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
  438. ]]></description>
  439. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  440. <p class="has-drop-cap">It’s nearly twenty years ago, now, children. Facebook had only recently burst the bounds of Harvard Yard. Twitter had just slipped the bonds of the digital underground. But web geeks like me still saw “social media” as a continuation of the older digital networks, protocols,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/LISTSERV">listservs</a>, and discussion forums we’d come up using, and not as the profound disruption that, partnered with smartphones and faster cellular networks, they would soon turn out to be.&nbsp;</p>
  441.  
  442.  
  443.  
  444. <p>So when world-renowned&nbsp;<a href="https://meyerweb.com/eric/">CSS genius Eric Meyer</a>&nbsp;and I, his plodding Dr Watson, envisioned adding a digital discussion component to&nbsp;<a href="https://aneventapart.com/">our live front-end web design conference events</a>, our first thought had been to create a bespoke one. We had already worked with a partner to adapt a framework he’d built for another client, and were considering whether to continue along that path or forge a new one.</p>
  445.  
  446.  
  447.  
  448. <p>And then, one day, I was talking to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Louis_Rosenfeld">Louis Rosenfeld</a>—the Prometheus of information architecture and&nbsp;<a href="https://rosenfeldmedia.com/people/louis-rosenfeld/">founder of Rosenfeld Media</a>. I told Lou about the quest Eric and I were on, to enhance An Event Apart with a private social network, and shared a roadblock we’d hit. And Lou said something brilliant that day. Something that would never have occurred to me. He said: “Why not use Facebook? It already exists, and that’s where the people are.”</p>
  449.  
  450.  
  451.  
  452. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-habit-of-building">The habit of building</h2>
  453.  
  454.  
  455.  
  456. <p>Reader, in all my previous years as a web designer, I had always built from scratch or worked with partners who did so. Perhaps, because I ran a small design agency and my mental framework was client services, the habit of building was ingrained. </p>
  457.  
  458.  
  459.  
  460. <p>After all, a chief reason clients came to us was because they needed something we could create and they could not. I had a preference for <em>bespoke</em> because it was designed to solve specific problems, which was (and is) the design business model as well as the justification for the profession. </p>
  461.  
  462.  
  463.  
  464. <p>Our community web design conference had a brand that tied into the brand of&nbsp;<a href="https://alistapart.com/">our community web design magazine</a>&nbsp;(and soon-to-emerge&nbsp;<a href="https://abookapart.com/">community web design book publishing house</a>). All my assumptions and biases were primed for discovery, design, development, and endless ongoing experiments and improvements.</p>
  465.  
  466.  
  467.  
  468. <p>Use something that was already out there? And not just&nbsp;<em>something</em>, but a clunky walled garden with an embarrassing origin story as a hot-or-not variant cobbled together by an angry, virginal undergraduate? The very idea set off all my self-protective alarms.</p>
  469.  
  470.  
  471.  
  472. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-a-lesson-in-humility">A lesson in humility</h2>
  473.  
  474.  
  475.  
  476. <p>Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.</p>
  477.  
  478.  
  479.  
  480. <p>Fortunately, I listened to Lou. And brought the idea to Eric, who agreed.</p>
  481.  
  482.  
  483.  
  484. <p>The story is a bit more complicated than what I’ve just shared. More voices and inputs contributed to the thinking; some development work was done, and a prototype bespoke community was rolled out for our attendees’ pleasure. But ultimately, we followed Lou’s advice, creating a Facebook group because that’s where the people were.&nbsp;</p>
  485.  
  486.  
  487.  
  488. <p><a href="https://twitter.com/aneventapart">We also used Twitter</a>, during its glory days (which coincided with our conference’s). <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/aneventapart/">And Flickr</a>. Because those places are where the people were. </p>
  489.  
  490.  
  491.  
  492. <p>And when you think about it, if people already know how to use one platform, and have demonstrated a preference for doing so, it can be wasteful of their time (not to mention arrogant) to expect them to learn another platform, simply because that one bears your logo.</p>
  493.  
  494.  
  495.  
  496. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-intersecting-planes-of-simple-yet-powerful-ideas">Intersecting planes of simple yet powerful ideas</h2>
  497.  
  498.  
  499.  
  500. <p>Of course, there are valid reasons not to use corporate social networks. Just as there are valid reasons to only use open source or free software. Or to not eat animals. But those real issues are not the drivers of this particular story.&nbsp;</p>
  501.  
  502.  
  503.  
  504. <p>This particular story is about a smart friend slicing through a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Gordian_Knot">Gordian Knot</a>&nbsp;(aka my convoluted mental model, constructed as a result of, and justification for, how I earned a living), and providing me with a life lesson whose wisdom I continue to hold close.<br><br>It’s a lesson that intersects with other moments of enlightenment, such as “Don’t tell people who they are or how they should feel; listen and believe when&nbsp;<em>they</em>&nbsp;tell&nbsp;<em>you</em>.”&nbsp;<em>Meet people where they are</em>. It’s a fundamental principle of good UX design. Like&nbsp;<em>pave the cowpaths</em>. Which is really the same thing. We take these ideas for granted, now.</p>
  505.  
  506.  
  507.  
  508. <p>But once, and not so long ago, there was a time. Not&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/Os-jJuwgNkA?si=T7Z4L4tGOmaoTWLP&amp;t=76">one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot</a>. But a time when media was no longer one-to-many, and not yet many-to-many. A time when it was still possible for designers like me to think we knew best.&nbsp;</p>
  509.  
  510.  
  511.  
  512. <p>I’m glad a friend knew better.</p>
  513.  
  514.  
  515.  
  516. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-afterword">Afterword</h2>
  517.  
  518.  
  519.  
  520. <p>I started telling this story to explain why&nbsp;<a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/21/in-search-of-a-digital-town-square/">I find myself posting, sometimes redundantly, to multiple social networks</a>—including one that feels increasingly like Mordor.&nbsp;</p>
  521.  
  522.  
  523.  
  524. <p>I go to them—even the one that breaks my heart—because, in this moment, they are where the people are.&nbsp;</p>
  525.  
  526.  
  527.  
  528. <p>Of course, as often happens, when I begin to tell a story that I think is about one thing, I discover that it’s about something else entirely.</p>
  529. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/03/02/where-the-people-are/">“Where the people are”</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  535. <title>R.I.Pete</title>
  536. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/02/29/r-i-pete/</link>
  537. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2024/02/29/r-i-pete/#comments</comments>
  538. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  539. <pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
  540. <category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
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  543. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://zeldman.com/?p=17734</guid>
  544.  
  545. <description><![CDATA[<p>It’s a year and one day since you died. At times, I feel your presence. I listen to your music every day. I miss you.</p>
  546. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/29/r-i-pete/">R.I.Pete</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
  547. ]]></description>
  548. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  549. <p>It’s a year and one day since you died. At times, I feel your presence. I listen to your music every day. I miss you. </p>
  550. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/29/r-i-pete/">R.I.Pete</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  556. <title>Just add water.</title>
  557. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/02/28/just-add-water/</link>
  558. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2024/02/28/just-add-water/#respond</comments>
  559. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  560. <pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  589. <description><![CDATA[<p>Quick, before everyone else thinks of it. Set the word “SUCCESSION” in Engravers Gothic and export it to a transparent PNG. Download photos of confederate general Mitch McConnell and Republican Johns Thune (R-S.D.), Cornyn (R-Texas), and Barrasso (R-Wyo.). Grab and burn Nicholas Britell’s main title theme from Succession. Import all files into Final Cut Pro [&#8230;]</p>
  590. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/28/just-add-water/">Just add water.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  593. <p>Quick, before everyone else thinks of it. Set the word “<strong>SUCCESSION</strong>” in <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/5509/engravers-gothic">Engravers Gothic</a> and export it to a transparent PNG. Download photos of confederate general Mitch McConnell and Republican Johns Thune (R-S.D.), Cornyn (R-Texas), and Barrasso (R-Wyo.). Grab and burn <a href="https://www.nicholasbritell.com/">Nicholas Britell</a>’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0bSHwuTOZVJUXWT03H9oD2?si=7a22069a26e74163">main title theme from Succession</a>. Import all files into <a href="https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/">Final Cut Pro</a> or <a href="https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.html">Adobe After Effects</a>. Add dissolves, fades, and film scratch overlays. Export. Upload to YouTube or Vimeo. Embed and amplify via all 500 social media networks. Sit back, relax, and bask in your 15 seconds of glory.</p>
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  601. <p class="has-small-font-size">“Succession” is copyright HBO. Mitch McConnell is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NRA.  </p>
  602. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/28/just-add-water/">Just add water.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  608. <title>Get it right.</title>
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  611. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  612. <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  640. <description><![CDATA[<p>“Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about the big stuff. Trust in media is already at an all-time low. Don’t alienate liberal arts majors and obsessive compulsives. We may [&#8230;]</p>
  641. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/27/get-it-right/">Get it right.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  644. <p>“Led” is the past tense of “lead.”</p>
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  648. <p>L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D.</p>
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  652. <p>Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.”</p>
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  656. <p>When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about the big stuff. Trust in media is already at an all-time low. Don’t alienate liberal arts majors and obsessive compulsives. We may be the last readers standing.</p>
  657. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/27/get-it-right/">Get it right.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  663. <title>In search of a digital town square</title>
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  710. <description><![CDATA[<p>Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about have either given up on the very premise of a shared digital commons, continued to post to Twitter while holding [&#8230;]</p>
  711. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/21/in-search-of-a-digital-town-square/">In search of a digital town square</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  714. <p class="has-drop-cap">Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about have either given up on the very premise of a shared digital commons, continued to post to Twitter while holding their noses, or sought a new digital place to call their own. This post is for the seekers, to compare notes.&nbsp;</p>
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  718. <p>These are my <em>personal</em> observations; your views may differ (and that’s more than okay). In this quick survey, I’m omitting specialty platforms like <a href="https://post.tribel.com/public/posts/1873fc30-69a8-11ed-bb22-b76b5a021845">Tribel</a>, <a href="https://post.news/feed">Post</a>, and <a href="https://substack.com/">Substack</a>. Feel free to comment, if you like.</p>
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  720.  
  721.  
  722. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-platforms">The platforms</h2>
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  725.  
  726. <p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zeldman.bsky.social"><strong>BlueSky</strong></a>: The most beautifully elegant web interface. Also the best features (other than omission of hashtags). What Twitter should have become. I joined late—Jack didn’t invite me, likely a sign that I was no longer industrially relevant. I have few followers there, and my posts so far get little traction, but that could change. It’s so pretty (and the few friends that use it matter so much to me) that I keep using it, and I reserve judgement as to its future potential. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zeldman.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/zeldman.bsky.social</a></p>
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  729.  
  730. <p><a href="https://www.threads.net/@zeldman"><strong>Threads</strong></a>: Currently my primary alternative to Twitter, and the only place besides Twitter where my posts get at least some response. Not as visually refined as BlueSky, and with a curiously restricted single-hashtag-only policy. Although this editorial decision helps focus the mind, and likely also cuts down on spam, it interferes with amplifying multidimensional posts. But I digress.</p>
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  734. <p>Rough edges and restrictive tagging aside, Threads feels like the place that’s likeliest to inherit the mantle of default town square—if <em>any</em> social platform can do that in these new times, that is.</p>
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  738. <p>Threads got its huge jump start because, while the IFB was busy finding new ways to make Twitter less useful and more dangerous, Meta leveraged its huge installed Instagram base to give users a more or less instant social network hookup. If it’s easy, and comes with a built-in network of people I already follow, it wins—at least initially. </p>
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  742. <p>Meta may also blow their opportunity if they pursue misguided policies, such as impeding (by algorithmic fiat) “political speech” when democracies hang in the balance, regional wars threaten to become world wars, and the climate crisis is approaching a point of no return. <a href="https://www.threads.net/@zeldman">https://www.threads.net/@zeldman</a></p>
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  746. <p><a href="https://front-end.social/@zeldman"><strong>Mastodon</strong></a>: How do you decentralize a digital town square? Provide universal social connection without locking in participants? Mastodon (and federation generally) are an attempt to do those things. </p>
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  750. <p>These are important and noble goals, but Mastodon (and federation generally) are a long shot at replacing a primary walled garden like Twitter because they require a fair degree of geekery to set up, and the price tag of mass acceptance is ease of setup. (Compare Threads—easy set-up, built-in friends and followers if you already use Instagram—versus the learning curve with Mastodon.) <br><br>If BlueSky is MacOS and Threads is Windows, Mastodon is Linux: a great choice for techies, but likely too steep a hill for Ma and Pa Normie. A techie friend invited me to join, and I write there frequently, but, for whatever it’s worth, my Mastodon posts get very little in the way of responses. It is, nonetheless, a highly effective network for most who use it. <a href="https://front-end.social/@zeldman">https://front-end.social/@zeldman</a></p>
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  753.  
  754. <p><a href="https://apartness.tumblr.com/"><strong>Tumblr</strong></a>: A bit o’ the OG weird wacky wonderful web, and a special place for nonconformist creative types. By its nature, and the nature of its fiercely loyal users, it is a cult jam. I was an early and enthusiastic Tumblr fan, but it was never my main axe, probably because, since the dawn of time itself, I have had <a href="http://zeldman.com">zeldman.com</a>. <br><br>For a while, when the IFB first started wrecking Twitter, an uptick in Tumblr usage suggested that the funky old network just might take over as the world’s town hall, but this hope was unrealistic, as Tumblr was never about being for everybody, and <em>Tumblristas</em> are mostly happy keeping the platform a home for self-selecting freaks, queers, and creatives. <br><br>I’ll note that Tumblr is part of the <a href="https://automattic.com/">Automattic</a> family, and I work at Automattic (just celebrated my fifth anniversary there!), but my opinions here are mine alone. BTW—in nearly 30 years of blogging, that’s the first time I’ve used that phrase. <a href="https://apartness.tumblr.com">https://apartness.tumblr.com</a></p>
  755.  
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  757.  
  758. <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeldman/"><strong>LinkedIn</strong></a>: A comparatively safe social network with a huge network built up over years, hence a great place to share work-related news and ideas. </p>
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  761.  
  762. <p>Some early Twitter adopters of my acquaintance—especially those who mainly write about work topics like UX—have made LinkedIn their primary social home. For most working folks, it is undoubtedly a place to post and amplify at least some of the content that matters to you. OTOH, it’s not a place where I’d share deep takes on CSS (that’s probably Mastodon), cosplay (Tumblr), or personal true confessions (one’s blog, Threads, Twitter before the IFB took over). <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeldman">https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeldman</a></p>
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  766. <p><a href="https://twitter.com/zeldman"><strong>Twitter itself</strong></a>: During its heyday, before the IFB, and when it was the only game in town, I loved going there to see what clever things my smartest friends were saying, post my own <em>bon mots</em>, and promote content that mattered to me. <br><br>I’ll limit my comments on Twitter’s current state to noting that I still post there, from stubbornness as well as habit, and primarily in the (increasingly forlorn) hope that the IFB will eventually tire of his toy, or of the ceaseless financial hemorrhage, and go away, leaving the site to rebirth itself as an open source project or under the care of new, non-fascist owners. <br><br>Though the algorithm punishes my posts, and though I’m continually appalled by the MAGA posts, Russian disinformation, racist/ misogynist/ anti-semitic spew, and Trumpian ego of the current owner, I shall, at least for now, continue to defend my tiny turf there.</p>
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  793. <div class="wp-block-comment-content"><p>Psst. Comments are back. This is a test.</p>
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  814. <div class="wp-block-comment-content"><p>I follow you on Mastodon and even when usually don&#8217;t respond to bunch of posts, I can still appreciate people being there. Since I use RSS, I get to read your posts that way usually coming to your website.</p>
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  835. <div class="wp-block-comment-content"><p>It’s nearly twenty years ago, now, children. Facebook had only recently burst the bounds of Harvard Yard. Twitter had just slipped the bonds of the&hellip;</p>
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  978. <title>Boys! Ragu!</title>
  979. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/02/07/boys-ragu/</link>
  980. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  981. <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
  982. <category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
  983. <category><![CDATA[glamorous]]></category>
  984. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.zeldman.com/?p=16004</guid>
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  986. <description><![CDATA[<p>When you were a kid, what was a meal you always looked forward to?</p>
  987. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/07/boys-ragu/">Boys! Ragu!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  990. <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="580" height="580" data-attachment-id="17710" data-permalink="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/07/boys-ragu/ragu-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/zeldman.com/wp-content/uploads/ragu.webp?fit=580%2C580&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="580,580" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="ragu" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/zeldman.com/wp-content/uploads/ragu.webp?fit=580%2C580&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/zeldman.com/wp-content/uploads/ragu.webp?fit=580%2C580&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/zeldman.com/wp-content/uploads/ragu.webp?resize=580%2C580&#038;ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-17710" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/zeldman.com/wp-content/uploads/ragu.webp?w=580&amp;ssl=1 580w, https://i0.wp.com/zeldman.com/wp-content/uploads/ragu.webp?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/zeldman.com/wp-content/uploads/ragu.webp?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/zeldman.com/wp-content/uploads/ragu.webp?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure>
  991.  
  992.  
  993.  
  994. <p><strong>When you were a kid, what was a meal you always looked forward to?</strong></p>
  995.  
  996.  
  997.  
  998. <p>Spaghetti with Ragu<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> sauce. My mother did not enjoy cooking. We ate many convenience meals and enjoyed the heck out of ’em.</p>
  999.  
  1000.  
  1001.  
  1002. <p>“Boys! Ragu!” Mom would holler from the kitchen.</p>
  1003. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/02/07/boys-ragu/">Boys! Ragu!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  1007. <title>A Death at Walmart</title>
  1008. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/01/24/a-death-at-walmart/</link>
  1009. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  1010. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
  1011. <category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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  1014. <description><![CDATA[<p>At age 38, Janikka Perry died of a heart attack at work, on her bakery shift at Walmart in North Little Rock, Arkansas, but you will not find her … A Death at Walmart</p>
  1015. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/01/24/a-death-at-walmart/">A Death at Walmart</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  1018. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>At age 38, Janikka Perry died of a heart attack at work, on her bakery shift at Walmart in North Little Rock, Arkansas, but you will not find her …</p><cite><a href="https://longreads.com/2024/01/23/a-death-at-walmart/">A Death at Walmart</a></cite></blockquote>
  1019. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/01/24/a-death-at-walmart/">A Death at Walmart</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  1023. <title>Knowledge Management for the win</title>
  1024. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/01/22/knowledge-management-for-the-win/</link>
  1025. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  1026. <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
  1027. <category><![CDATA[Best practices]]></category>
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  1033.  
  1034. <description><![CDATA[<p>Knowledge management (KM) is the process of organizing, creating, using, and sharing collective knowledge within an organization.  Unlock and unblock For companies, institutions, and projects struggling to become more efficient and productive—and who these days is not?—solid knowledge management can unlock productivity and unblock awareness of customer needs, awareness of unrecognized gaps, creativity, alignment, product improvements, [&#8230;]</p>
  1035. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/01/22/knowledge-management-for-the-win/">Knowledge Management for the win</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  1037. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1038. <p class="has-drop-cap has-large-font-size">Knowledge management (KM) is the process of organizing, creating, using, and sharing collective knowledge within an organization. </p>
  1039.  
  1040.  
  1041.  
  1042. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-unlock-and-unblock">Unlock and unblock</h2>
  1043.  
  1044.  
  1045.  
  1046. <p>For companies, institutions, and projects struggling to become more efficient and productive—and who these days is not?—solid <a href="https://www.ibm.com/topics/knowledge-management">knowledge management</a> can unlock productivity and unblock awareness of customer needs, awareness of unrecognized gaps, creativity, alignment, product improvements, and greater success. </p>
  1047.  
  1048.  
  1049.  
  1050. <p>Conversely, lack of knowledge management—or half-hearted knowledge management that is incomplete and/or not widely shared—holds back any organization afflicted by it. </p>
  1051.  
  1052.  
  1053.  
  1054. <p>Most institutions, companies, and groups suffer from <em>at least</em> a partial lack of solid knowledge management. Fortunately, this is fixable by acknowledging the problem, understanding its sources, and addressing them in planned phases. Open source organizations can implement via iterative sprints, traditional companies via top-down project management.</p>
  1055.  
  1056.  
  1057.  
  1058. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-three-main-areas-of-knowledge-management">The three main areas of knowledge management</h2>
  1059.  
  1060.  
  1061.  
  1062. <p>The three main areas of knowledge management are:</p>
  1063.  
  1064.  
  1065.  
  1066. <ul>
  1067. <li>Accumulating knowledge.</li>
  1068.  
  1069.  
  1070.  
  1071. <li>Storing knowledge.</li>
  1072.  
  1073.  
  1074.  
  1075. <li>Sharing knowledge.</li>
  1076. </ul>
  1077.  
  1078.  
  1079.  
  1080. <p>Accumulating knowledge happens every time any member of a team achieves a task—or fails to achieve it and analyzes why. <br /><br />Storing knowledge can be as team-limited as reminders I jot down in my personal Notes app (useful only to me), or widely shared. Shared is better. <br /><br />Much of our knowledge resides in individual brains. Knowledge management enables it to be shared. Successful knowledge management enables everyone to find it.</p>
  1081.  
  1082.  
  1083.  
  1084. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-examples-of-successful-knowledge-management">Examples of successful knowledge management</h2>
  1085.  
  1086.  
  1087.  
  1088. <p>Successful knowledge management includes maintaining information in a place where it is easy to access, such as a centrally located online handbook or field guide. Examples include <a href="https://automattic.com/fieldguide/">the Automattic Employee Field Guide</a> (limited, public version; a richer version is available to employees only), <a href="https://www.ibm.com/design/language/">IBM Design Language</a>, the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide">BBC News Style Guide</a>, <a href="https://alistapart.com/about/style-guide/"><em>A List Apart</em> Style Guide</a>, and the W3C documentation such as <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/mobile/">Mobile Accessibility at W3C</a>. Those just getting started compiling an organizational field guide—or improving an existing one—may find Workable’s <a href="https://resources.workable.com/employee-handbook-policies">Sample Employee Handbook templates</a> useful, whether or not you use <a href="https://www.workable.com/hris/document-management">their product</a>. </p>
  1089.  
  1090.  
  1091.  
  1092. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  1093. <p><em>Taking advantage of all the expertise within an organization is a great way to maximize its potential. Companies have a well of untapped knowledge within their workforce that is lying dormant or siloed to individual staff or departments.</em></p>
  1094.  
  1095.  
  1096.  
  1097. <p><em>With the proper management structures in place, this knowledge can be found, stored, and made accessible to the wider workforce, offering tangible busines</em>s –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.valamis.com/hub/knowledge-management">Human Resources: Knowledge Management</a></p>
  1098. </blockquote>
  1099.  
  1100.  
  1101.  
  1102. <p>Ponder this now, and either proactively agitate for it, or, at the very least, keep awareness of it on a sticky note that you can return to when a C-level executive asks why you or your team haven’t made as much progress, or worked as effectively and efficiently, as possible. <br /><br />Knowledge management is the secret sauce that enables organizations staffed by smart people to unlock their full potential.<br /><br />#</p>
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  1115. <li><a href="https://alistapart.com/article/cult-of-the-complex/">The Cult of the Complex</a> (in <em>A List Apart</em>)</li>
  1116. </ul>
  1117. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/01/22/knowledge-management-for-the-win/">Knowledge Management for the win</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  1120. <item>
  1121. <title>satyricon</title>
  1122. <link>https://zeldman.com/2024/01/13/satyricon/</link>
  1123. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  1124. <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 13:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
  1125. <category><![CDATA[glamorous]]></category>
  1126. <category><![CDATA[bildungsroman]]></category>
  1127. <category><![CDATA[My Glamorous Life]]></category>
  1128. <category><![CDATA[satire]]></category>
  1129. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.zeldman.com/?p=15988</guid>
  1130.  
  1131. <description><![CDATA[<p>The cruel and evil cannot be shamed.</p>
  1132. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/01/13/satyricon/">satyricon</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
  1133. ]]></description>
  1134. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1135. <p style="font-size:26px">In the bubble I blew for myself so it would be safe to grow up, satire was a weapon against evil. Of course I was wrong. Satire is how clever people amuse themselves about things over which they have no control. It saves no victim, stops no crime. The few minds it changes were ready to be changed.</p>
  1136.  
  1137.  
  1138.  
  1139. <p style="font-size:26px">The cruel and evil cannot be shamed. They do not read literature, and they cannot laugh at themselves. Those who laugh at the folly of evil men, they punish with extreme and ghastly pleasure.</p>
  1140. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/01/13/satyricon/">satyricon</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  1144. <title>Operation Paperclip (and other crimes)</title>
  1145. <link>https://zeldman.com/2023/12/24/operation-paperclip-and-other-crimes/</link>
  1146. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  1147. <pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 13:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
  1148. <category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
  1149. <category><![CDATA[war crimes]]></category>
  1150. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.zeldman.com/?p=15975</guid>
  1151.  
  1152. <description><![CDATA[<p>Evil is rarely a solo project. Horrors and atrocities of the past may provide context for the horrors and atrocities happening right now in Gaza and the Congo. United States war crimes: Gosh, where to begin? Widespread rape by U.S. servicemen of Japanese, German, and French women; human experiments on non-white U.S. enlisted men “to [&#8230;]</p>
  1153. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/12/24/operation-paperclip-and-other-crimes/">Operation Paperclip (and other crimes)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
  1154. ]]></description>
  1155. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1156. <p class="has-large-font-size">Evil is rarely a solo project. Horrors and atrocities of the past may provide context for the horrors and atrocities happening right now in Gaza and the Congo. </p>
  1157.  
  1158.  
  1159.  
  1160. <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes">United States war crimes</a>: Gosh, where to begin? Widespread rape by U.S. servicemen of Japanese, German, and French women; human experiments on non-white U.S. enlisted men “to see how non-white races would react to being mustard gassed;” mass murders and torture in Vietnam, including burning “the membrane of the throats of Vietnamese children and holes in their stomachs by feeding them trioxane heat tablets in the middle of peanut butter cracker sandwiches from their rations” (you know, like you do); My Lai; Abu Ghraib; mass killings and torture of Haitians, including hanging prisoners by their genitals; and so much more. We, the good guys, did this shit. And these are only the crimes we know about.</p>
  1161.  
  1162.  
  1163.  
  1164. <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip">Operation Paperclip</a>: Immediately after WWII, the U.S. hired more than 1600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, many of them former members (and several of them former leaders) of the Nazi Party. <em>Nice resumes, fellas, come work for us.</em> The Paperclip scientists won major awards in the U.S. for their advancements in aeronautics, and were hugely influential in the U.S. space program. Occasionally, one of the ex-Nazis was discovered to have done something especially heinous during his days in Germany. Never fear, the U.S. made sure to protect him. For instance, in 1951, Walter Schreiber was linked to human experiments conducted by Kurt Bloom at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravensbr%C3%BCck_concentration_camp">Ravensbrück</a> concentration camp. The U.S. military helped Schreiber emigrate to Argentina, to escape punishment for his crimes. Nice.</p>
  1165.  
  1166.  
  1167.  
  1168. <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cover-up_of_Japanese_war_crimes">American cover-up of Japaneses war crimes</a>: Although institutional racism made white European ex-Nazis more attractive to U.S. hiring teams than their Japanese counterparts, America was nonetheless willing to do favors for Japanese officials accused of crimes against humanity. Thus, immediately after the war, the occupying U.S. force deliberately covered up Japanese war crimes—including human experimentation that had been carried out on Chinese prisoners. Hey, we did it in Tuskegee, why shouldn’t the Japanese do it in China?</p>
  1169.  
  1170.  
  1171.  
  1172. <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bloodstone">Operation Bloodstone</a>: The CIA hired high-ranking Nazi intelligence agents who’d committed war crimes to spy for us inside the Soviet Union, Latin America, Canada, and even domestically within the United States. Hey, why not.</p>
  1173.  
  1174.  
  1175.  
  1176. <p>Happy Holidays! Pray for peace and forgiveness.</p>
  1177. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/12/24/operation-paperclip-and-other-crimes/">Operation Paperclip (and other crimes)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  1181. <title>Fly, my designers, fly!</title>
  1182. <link>https://zeldman.com/2023/11/28/fly-my-designers-fly/</link>
  1183. <comments>https://zeldman.com/2023/11/28/fly-my-designers-fly/#comments</comments>
  1184. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  1185. <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
  1186. <category><![CDATA[A List Apart]]></category>
  1187. <category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
  1188. <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
  1189. <category><![CDATA[Coudal Partners]]></category>
  1190. <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
  1191. <category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
  1192. <category><![CDATA[Designers]]></category>
  1193. <category><![CDATA[glamorous]]></category>
  1194. <category><![CDATA[Happy Cog™]]></category>
  1195. <category><![CDATA[Indieweb]]></category>
  1196. <category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
  1197. <category><![CDATA[Mentoring]]></category>
  1198. <category><![CDATA[Off My Lawn!]]></category>
  1199. <category><![CDATA[Products]]></category>
  1200. <category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
  1201. <category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
  1202. <category><![CDATA[State of the Web]]></category>
  1203. <category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>
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  1205. <category><![CDATA[Web Design History]]></category>
  1206. <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category>
  1207. <category><![CDATA[entrepreneur]]></category>
  1208. <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurial]]></category>
  1209. <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
  1210. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.zeldman.com/?p=15952</guid>
  1211.  
  1212. <description><![CDATA[<p>Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some designers are realizing that they’re not just a designer employed by a business; they’re creative business people whose skill set is design. —The State of [&#8230;]</p>
  1213. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/11/28/fly-my-designers-fly/">Fly, my designers, fly!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
  1214. ]]></description>
  1215. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1216. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  1217. <p>Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an <a href="https://www.betterbydesign.cc/p/the-era-of-design-entrepreneurship">era of design entrepreneurship</a>, in which some designers are realizing that they’re not just a designer employed by a business; they’re creative business people whose skill set is design.</p>
  1218. <cite>—<a href="https://trends.uxdesign.cc/"><strong>The State of UX in 2024</strong></a></cite></blockquote>
  1219.  
  1220.  
  1221.  
  1222. <p>The quotation above is from a report at <a href="https://trends.uxdesign.cc/">trends.uxdesign.cc</a> subtitled “<strong>Enter Late-Stage UX</strong>.” It is an important thought. And if it seems like a new one to designers in their first decade of work, it will feel quite familiar to to those of us who earned our merit badges during the 1990s and 2000s. See, for instance, </p>
  1223.  
  1224.  
  1225.  
  1226. <h6 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-when-you-are-your-own-client-who-are-you-going-to-make-fun-of-at-the-bar"><a href="https://alistapart.com/article/beyourownclient/">When You Are Your Own Client, Who Are You Going To Make Fun Of At The Bar?</a></h6>
  1227.  
  1228.  
  1229.  
  1230. <p>by <a href="https://alistapart.com/author/coudal/">Jim Coudal</a> (2005), </p>
  1231.  
  1232.  
  1233.  
  1234. <h6 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://alistapart.com/article/startingabusiness/">Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches</a></h6>
  1235.  
  1236.  
  1237.  
  1238. <p>by <a href="https://alistapart.com/author/kevinpotts/">Kevin Potts</a> (2003), and</p>
  1239.  
  1240.  
  1241.  
  1242. <h6 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-this-web-business-part-one"><a href="https://alistapart.com/article/business1/">THIS WEB BUSINESS, Part One</a></h6>
  1243.  
  1244.  
  1245.  
  1246. <p>by <a href="https://alistapart.com/author/scottkramer/">Scott Kramer</a> (2000, one of four terrific <em>ALA</em> articles by Scott on that subject). </p>
  1247.  
  1248.  
  1249.  
  1250. <p>That widespread, intoxicating entrepreneurial impulse led to a <a href="https://medium.com/@pseudoroom/now-more-than-ever-the-time-of-the-design-community-portal-is-once-again-upon-us-68313b030720">cornucopia</a> <a href="https://www.swiss-miss.com/">of</a> <a href="https://daringfireball.net/">internet</a> <a href="https://www.mirrorproject.com/">content</a> and <a href="https://iconfactory.com/">products</a> (and, eventually, <a href="https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/foiled-again">“real-world”</a> <a href="https://squareup.com/us/en">products</a>, too). Some flopped. Some <a href="https://www.flickr.com/">flowered</a> for a magical season (or twelve), and then faded as times and the market changed. Some <a href="https://wordpress.org/">grew and grew</a>, growing communities with them. A few changed the world, for better or worse. (And, occasionally, for <a href="https://twitter.com/">both</a>.)</p>
  1251.  
  1252.  
  1253.  
  1254. <p>History repeats, but it also changes. If flying from your corporate perch feels like your best response to an industry where the idealism that led you to UX feels somewhat beside the point, go for it! —But first, check your bank balance, and talk with family, friends, and a business advisor, if you have one.</p>
  1255.  
  1256.  
  1257.  
  1258. <p>Trusting my ability to use design and words to say something original enabled me to <a href="https://www.zeldman.com/about/">work for myself (and with partners)</a> from 1999–2019, and it was good. Financially, running independent businesses is a perpetual rollercoaster, and it can crush your soul if your beloved creation fails to connect with a community. Some people exit rich. Others just exit. “Don’t burn any bridges” is a cliché that exists for a reason. But I digress.</p>
  1259.  
  1260.  
  1261.  
  1262. <p>“Consider entrepreneurship” is <strong>but one piece of useful advice</strong> in this year’s excellent State of UX report by <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/fabricioteixeira">Fabricio Teixeira</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/caioab">Caio Braga</a>, with deeply clever illustrations by <a href="http://www.instagram.com/fabiobene/">Fabio Benê</a> and significant contributions from Emily Curtin (God bless the editors!) and Laura Vandiver.<br /><br />I invite you to read and bookmark the whole thing. I plan to reread it several times myself over the next weeks. It’s that deep, and that good. Hat tip to my colleague <a href="https://www.uxdx.com/profile/jill-quek/">Jill Quek</a> for sharing it.</p>
  1263.  
  1264.  
  1265.  
  1266. <p>Read: <a href="https://trends.uxdesign.cc/"><strong>The State of UX in 2024</strong></a>.</p>
  1267.  
  1268.  
  1269.  
  1270. <p></p>
  1271. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/11/28/fly-my-designers-fly/">Fly, my designers, fly!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  1277. <title>Algorithm &#038; Blues</title>
  1278. <link>https://zeldman.com/2023/11/10/algorithm-blues/</link>
  1279. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  1280. <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 11:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
  1281. <category><![CDATA[Best practices]]></category>
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  1283. <category><![CDATA[Blogs and Blogging]]></category>
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  1290. <category><![CDATA[findability]]></category>
  1291. <category><![CDATA[Free Advice]]></category>
  1292. <category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
  1293. <category><![CDATA[Indieweb]]></category>
  1294. <category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
  1295. <category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
  1296. <category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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  1298. <category><![CDATA[Own your content]]></category>
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  1314.  
  1315. <description><![CDATA[<p>Examining last week’s Verge-vs-Sullivan “Google ruined the web” debate, author Elizabeth Tai writes: I don’t know any class of user more abused by SEO and Google search than the writer. Whether they’re working for their bread [and] butter or are just writing for fun, writers have to write the way Google wants them to just [&#8230;]</p>
  1316. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/11/10/algorithm-blues/">Algorithm &#038; Blues</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
  1317. ]]></description>
  1318. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1319. <p>Examining last week’s Verge-vs-Sullivan “Google ruined the web” debate, <a href="https://elizabethtai.com/author/firediarist/">author Elizabeth Tai</a> writes:</p>
  1320.  
  1321.  
  1322.  
  1323. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  1324. <p>I don’t know any class of user more abused by SEO and Google search than the writer. Whether they’re working for their bread [and] butter or are just writing for fun, writers have to write the way Google wants them to just to get seen.</p>
  1325.  
  1326.  
  1327.  
  1328. <p>I wrote extensively about this in <em><a href="https://elizabethtai.com/blog/google-helpful-content-update/">Google’s Helpful Content Update isn’t kind to nicheless blogs</a> </em>and <em><a href="https://elizabethtai.substack.com/p/how-im-healing-from-algorithms">How I’m Healing from Algorithms </a></em>where I said: “Algorithms are forcing us to create art that fits into a neat little box — <em>their</em> neat little box.”<br /><br />So, despite Sullivan’s claims to the contrary, the Internet has sucked for me in the last 10 years. Not only because I was forced to create content in a way that pleases their many rules, but because I have to compete with SEO-optimized garbage fuelled by people with deep pockets and desires for deep pockets.</p>
  1329. <cite><a href="https://elizabethtai.com/2023/11/09/is-the-internet-really-broken/"><strong>Is the Internet really broken?</strong></a></cite></blockquote>
  1330.  
  1331.  
  1332.  
  1333. <p>For digital creators who prefer to contain multitudes, Tai finds hope in abandoning the algorithm game, and accepting a loss of clout, followers, and discoverability as the price of remaining true to your actual voice and interests:</p>
  1334.  
  1335.  
  1336.  
  1337. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  1338. <p>However, this year, I regained more joy as a writer when I gave upon SEO and decided to become <a href="https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/06/being-an-imperfect-gardener-of-my-digital-garden/">an imperfect gardener of my digital garden</a>. So there’s hope for us yet.</p>
  1339. </blockquote>
  1340.  
  1341.  
  1342.  
  1343. <p> As for folks who don’t spend their time macro-blogging—“ordinary people” who <em>use</em> rather than spend significant chunks of their day <em>creating</em> web content—Tai points out that this, statistically at least a more important issue than the fate and choices of the artists formerly known as digerati, remains unsolved, but with glimmers of partially solution-shaped indicators in the form of a re-emerging indieweb impulse:</p>
  1344.  
  1345.  
  1346.  
  1347. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  1348. <p>Still, as much as I agree with The Verge’s conclusions, I feel that pointing fingers is useless. The bigger question is,&nbsp;<strong>How do we fix the Internet for the ordinary person?</strong></p>
  1349.  
  1350.  
  1351.  
  1352. <p>The big wigs don’t seem to want to answer that question thoroughly, perhaps because there’s no big money in this, so people have been trying to find solutions on their own.</p>
  1353.  
  1354.  
  1355.  
  1356. <p>We have the&nbsp;<a href="https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/03/how-i-am-blogging-the-indieweb-way/">Indieweb movement</a>, the Fediverse like&nbsp;<a href="https://elizabethtai.com/2023/02/17/mastodon-trolls-and-filters/">Mastodon</a>&nbsp;and Substack rising to fill the gap. It’s a ragtag ecosystem humming beneath Google’s layer on the Internet. And I welcome its growth.</p>
  1357. </blockquote>
  1358.  
  1359.  
  1360.  
  1361. <p>For more depth and fuller flavor, I encourage you to read the entirety of “<a href="https://elizabethtai.com/2023/11/09/is-the-internet-really-broken/">Is the internet really broken?</a>” on elizabethtai.com. (Then read her other writings, and follow her on our fractured social web.)</p>
  1362.  
  1363.  
  1364.  
  1365. <p><br /><em>“The independent content creator refuses to die.” – this website, ca. 1996, and again in 2001, paraphrasing Frank Zappa paraphrasing Edgar Varese, obviously. </em></p>
  1366.  
  1367.  
  1368.  
  1369. <p>Hat tip: <a href="https://front-end.social/@simoncox@seocommunity.social">Simon Cox</a>.</p>
  1370. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/11/10/algorithm-blues/">Algorithm &#038; Blues</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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  1374. <title>Resistance makes side projects hard</title>
  1375. <link>https://zeldman.com/2023/09/25/resistance-makes-side-projects-hard/</link>
  1376. <dc:creator><![CDATA[L. Jeffrey Zeldman]]></dc:creator>
  1377. <pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
  1378. <category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
  1379. <category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
  1380. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.zeldman.com/2023/09/25/resistance-makes-side-projects-hard/</guid>
  1381.  
  1382. <description><![CDATA[<p>Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd. It’s a community for people who make things by hand: In that time … Resistance makes side projects hard</p>
  1383. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/09/25/resistance-makes-side-projects-hard/">Resistance makes side projects hard</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
  1384. ]]></description>
  1385. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  1386. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/davemartinsblog.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/cleanshot-2023-09-20-at-09.30.08402x.png?quality=80&amp;w=960&amp;ssl=1" alt=""/></figure>
  1387.  
  1388.  
  1389.  
  1390. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  1391. <p>Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd. It’s a community for people who make things by hand: In that time …</p>
  1392. <cite><a href="http://davemart.in/2023/09/20/resistance/">Resistance makes side projects hard</a></cite></blockquote>
  1393.  
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  1395. <p>The post <a href="https://zeldman.com/2023/09/25/resistance-makes-side-projects-hard/">Resistance makes side projects hard</a> appeared first on <a href="https://zeldman.com">Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design</a>.</p>
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