Tag Archives: quote

People do things

July 1st, 2011

Agencies, departments, and organizations don’t do things — people do things. People’s names should be on things to foster both accountability and pride. Edward Tufte. (via John Gruber)

Tags:
Comments Off

Neil Gaiman on Comics

October 17th, 2010

And for me, 25 years on, what I love about this is being able to give this to somebody and say, “See, this is what I mean by comics.” It is not a genre. It is simply a medium. And it’s a medium that you can do anything with. Neil Gaiman.

Tags: , , , , ,
Comments Off

The line between book and Internet will disappear

September 13th, 2010

The secret among those who have poked around EPUB, the open specification for ebooks, is that an .epub file is really just a website, written in XHTML, with a few special characteristics, and wrapped up. It’s wrapped up so that it is self-contained (like a book! between covers!), so that it doesn’t appear to be a website, and so […]

Tags: , , ,
Comments Off

Dumb solutions

February 8th, 2010

Kellan Elliott-McCrea on his response whenever he’s asked “How does Flickr do XYZ?”. We generally try do the dumbest thing that will work first. And that’s usually as far as we get. There’s an elegance to dumb solutions.

Tags: , , ,
Comments Off

The authentic has replaced the reproducible

February 3rd, 2010

I notice that, as the Net provides free or cheap versions of things, ‘the authentic experience’ — the singular experience enjoyed without mediation — becomes more valuable. I notice that more attention is given by creators to the aspects of their work that can’t be duplicated. The ‘authentic’ has replaced the reproducible. Brian Eno on the […]

Tags: ,
Comments Off