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Critters

The story of Sparky

A friend of my roommate’s shares a house with her husband out in the middle of a corn field — literally the middle of a cornfield–somewhere on the Illinios side of the Mississippi. They live happily in the small home with two dogs and three cats, and I imagine various other assorted and sundry wild […]

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Burningbird

Making do

As you may have noticed, I’ve re-designed my site. Again. Compared to the flames, the look is actually rather conservative, although I prefer to think of it as subtle. While working on a client’s site this week, I noticed that after staring at her pages for a time, my own site seemed, in comparison, very […]

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Copyright

What we hear

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Lawrence Lessig posted a graphic of the spread of Creative Commons throughout the world. He used some interesting words to describe the colors: As of Thursday, the current spread of Creative Commons. The green are countries where the project has launched. The yellow are close. The red is yet to be liberated. (em. […]

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Writing

Distinctiveness

Kathy Sierra, author of the popular “Head First” series from O’Reilly, asked a question: Is your book, manual, website remarkable (or recognizable) at every scale? There’s a game I used to play where you take a really small image from the painting of a famous artist and try to identify it. The trick is to see […]

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Standards Technology

What do you want from digital identity

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I removed the last paragraph from my last posting. It added nothing to the discussion and was unnecessarily snarky. Still, doing so doesn’t impact on the message threaded throughout the post that *I’m not supportive of universal (read that ‘federated’) digital identities. I don’t believe there is a system that […]