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past and present.

Facebook exodus and the long path ahead.

Recently, the Facebook has gotten a lot of bad press for what amounts to rising privacy concerns.  Facebook frequently adjusts what information can be seen by the public, (particularly if not explicitly set from the defaults) and has some questionable policies surrounding what they do with that information.  But I’d rather not tire on about the pros and cons of Facebook, because ultimately we can vote by simply dropping our accounts.  There are plenty of alternatives, and beyond that I think we are on the verge of a shift in the web.

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[Quicklink] Wired breaking the fold.

Just read this and noticed how Wired seems to finally be embracing the web as a new format.  Here’s to the end of “the fold” and a new era of beautiful huge photographs.  Trust your readers, they know what the scrollbar is for.

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• Digital Progress

Jonathan Ive on Design

A great perspective on why designers are constantly looking to refine, and re-address solutions over and over again.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fe800C2CU[/youtube]

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An interview with a pioneer

Jeffrey Zeldman is well known in the web development and design community as helping found a series of standards in the web.  In these series of interviews, Zeldman covers the future of the web, and how to interpret your goal as a content designer, developer, and provider. Hit the link to view Zeldman’s series of interviews. read more ›

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Weekend Recap

Well well, that was fun.  Seems like with the coming end to summer, everyone’s packing in boatloads of excitement in a generally short period of time.  In all fairness, the entire summer’s been pretty busy, so perhaps it’s just a recent surge.  But it’s definitely reason to start keeping a calendar. read more ›

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• Festivities,
• Oddities,
• Outdoors