Browsing Event

The Listenings Richard over at Diesel Sweeties is following up on the Thrillening (a synchronized, distributed listening of Michael Jackson’s Thriller in its entirety) with a listening of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars using Twitter as a backchannel for the event.  

Designer as Ghostwriter Metropolis coverage of this past weekend’s Social Studies uses Leslie’s Take Root presentation to drive its point home. 

Sidebar Workshops If web design and development events were like comic book super groups Sidebar would be the Fantastic Four. I’ll leave it to our intrepid readers to decide who’s who. 

Read Mint: Third Year’s a Charm    013

An Event Apart San Francisco 2008 Jeremy Keith’s live blogging is the next best thing to being there. 

I am 8-bit 2008 A huge Flickr set by Old Man Musings’ Andrew Speers. 

Web Triage: Methodical Madness The infamous SXSW panel picker is live. Love/hate aside, South By is about people. Not panels. And certainly not about the panel picker. Just the same, Messieurs Mall, Marcotte and myself wouldn’t mind if you shot a couple of stars the way of our presentation. Stethoscopes will be provided. BYOS (bring your own scrubs). 

Win a Free Ticket to dConstruct 2008 Andy Budd says, “…simply grab the code for one of our customisable buttons, add your own image and upload it to your website. Next, take a screen grab of your button and post it to our Flickr group.” I’ve always loved the dConstruct papercraft-inspired logo. 

We Are Wizards “…tracks the influential figures leading the creative subculture surrounding the popular (Harry Potter) series.” Featuring our pals Harry and the Potters and all their pals. The world premier is at SXSW this weekend. (hat-tip to mr. weychert) 

"I’m calling this one the best shot of the entire Layer Tennis season." Thanks John, can’t ask for nicer praise than that. Don’t forget to let the Coudal folks know who you think won today’s match-up. Update: This link now points a screenshot of my image at the time of volley (the archive page is missing the tandem navigation present when this image was designed).