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Smells like… politics as usual
I wasn’t going to write this story. It will become apparent why I did, but it won’t reveal itself until close to the end of this piece. After long thought I had decided it would as likely as not do...
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Pixelview interview
[ed. note: I did this interview with the Head Lemur several months ago and completely forgot about it until he emailed me that he was going to run it this week. Here’s the original Lemurzone link.] —...
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Changing directions
Effective tomorrow (2 December 2002) Karen and I are folding placing ARTS & FARCES LLC on hiatus for a few months. After 23 years and one too many economic down-turns, that’s all she wrote. It was...
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Heads up: More changes
Next week we’ll be moving all of the ARTS & FARCES LLC internet services, including our servers and email, to a new service provider. Actually, it’s the same people we’ve been dealing with for...
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Blogosphere ethics and business models
Online publishers large and small have been struggling to create or discover sustainable business models for more than ten years. We’re no closer now than we were then; in fact, there’s mounting...
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So long Google AdSense, it’s been good to know ya
You’ll notice that I’ve removed the Google AdSense ads from all of the ARTS & FARCES websites. I did it for a variety of reasons: Last week I published two stories about serious problems with a...
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Huffington Post accused of copyright infringement
Online publication Huffington Post, backed by beaucoup venture capital, stands accused of stealing content from other online publications. The publication is the house organ for political chameleon...
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The problem with home vacations
Tim O’Reilly tweeted this earlier today: “It’s amazing how much easier it is to be on vacation when away from home. A home vacation is too easy to turn into work catchup.” No shit. As I’ve written...
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The lost manuscripts: Mac hypermedia introduction and overview
In 2003, I had a catastrophic equipment failure in my office. My working hard disk — including all of my manuscripts — and its backups were destroyed. Back then I never archived my projects, only...
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Content templates or page tables: Whatever you call them, use them
Erin Kissane has written a stellar second article, “Content templates to the rescue,” for A List Apart in what hopefully is a continuing series. Her first article in the series, “Writing content that...
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Toward a user experience strategy
ARTS & FARCES has specialized in user experience for many years, but I’ve been reluctant to write much about the topic. For a variety of reasons, that’s changing now and I’m adding a new “User...
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The blotter: Week ending 28 March 2010
Cryptography When you access your bank accounts on the internet, your browser verifies the bank website’s certificate and if it checks out, encrypts the traffic between your browser and the bank’s...
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RSS on verge of becoming illegal?
Two Stanford graduate students created the Pulse News Reader, an app for Apple’s iPad, to fulfill a course requirement. It became something of an overnight sensation and was mentioned by both the New...
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Safari Reader: So long web CPM ad model
Just after Apple announced its iPhone 4 and iOS 4 at its Worldwide Developers Conference, the company quietly released Safari 5. Instead of focusing on useless cosmetics (I’m looking at you Safari 4),...
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Winer’s sub-text: A stumble in the right direction
Dave Winer is at it again, and if you’re an online author or publisher you’d better pay close attention. Winer has completely reworked his writing environment (when you’re a programmer you can do...
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The valve job
At 4AM on Thursday, 10 February I went into the emergency department at United Hospital in Saint Paul, unable to breathe adequately. My breathing difficulties have been worsening for several weeks. I...
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The shape I’m in
“Out of nine lives, I spent seven Now, how in the world do you get to heaven Oh, you don’t know the shape I’m in” — Levon Helm, “The Shape I’m In” Very few people know that before my family and I...
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A canary in the internet coal mine
The Internet Defense League is promising to provide code (I’ve signed up but haven’t seen a bit of code yet) to members that they can incorporate in their websites to provide alerts when a threat —...
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Dave Winer rides again
When I bought my first computer — an Apple ][+ — the software I wanted more than anything else was not a word processor (I bought a database before buying a whole series of word processors), but...
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Cat signal for internet threats
The Internet Defense League — an assortment of advocacy groups, politicians, and internet businesses (disclaimer: ARTS & FARCES LLC and its partners are signatories) interested in maintaining the...
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