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Content Strategy for Mobile three ways from Sunday
IT’S A Karen McGrane world! Today, as A Book Apart unveils Karen McGrane’s amazing new Content Strategy for Mobile, the entirety of A List Apart Issue No. 364 is dedicated to Karen and her vision for...
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Big Web Show 78: Bloomstein on content strategy
IN EPISODE No. 78 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Margot Bloomstein, author of Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Engagement...
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Design is Copy is Design
ART AND COPY have been joined at the hip since Bill Bernbach launched the creative revolution in the 1960s. But on the web, not so much. It’s great that some of the brightest minds in our industry...
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Creative Commons turns 10
HARD TO BELIEVE, but it was ten years ago that I first heard Lawrence Lessig give a talk at SXSWi about an idea he had to save content from death by copyright law. At the time, copyright law and...
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McGrane: Kill Your CMS
THE ERA of “desktop publishing” is over. Same goes for the era where we privilege the desktop web interface above all others. The tools we create to manage our content are vestiges of the desktop...
View ArticleThe joy of content creation (and the hazards of building in someone else’s...
AN INSPIRING STORY of content creation, which is also, although this particular tale ends happily, a warning about the hazards of building in someone else’s sandbox. Stampylongnose makes wonderful...
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A List Apart № 419: Narratives & Conversations
IN ISSUE № 419 of A List Apart: Do Androids Dream in Free Verse by JOSCELIN COOPER From ATMs to Siri to the button text in an application user interface, we “talk” to our tech—and our tech talks back....
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A List Apart № 423: container queries, responsive content
WHETHER the topic is responsive CSS or content that responds to the right user at the right time, Issue № 423 of A List Apart is all about finding the path forward: Container Queries: Once More Unto...
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This Week In The Death of Publishing & The Web
FAST COMPANY writes: Apple, like Facebook, has entered into a standoff with the publishing industry and the open, if for-profit, web. And it’s being done under the aegis of design: choose a better...
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A Beautiful Life
LIZZIE VELASQUEZ, age 25, weighs 64 pounds. Born with a rare syndrome that prevents her from gaining weight, she was not expected to survive. Her parents took her home, raised her normally, and, when...
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The independent content producer refuses to die!
2001 IS CALLING, and while it may not look fresh, its message still resonates: We believe that the web is a remarkable medium for new forms of art, personal storytelling, and all manner of information...
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Responsive times two: essential new books from Ethan Marcotte & Karen McGrane
IT WAS the early 2000s. The smoke from 9/11 was still poisoning my New York. Karen McGrane was a brilliant young consultant who had built the IA practice at Razorfish while still in her early 20s, and...
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Ten Years Ago on the Web
2006 DOESN’T seem forever ago until I remember that we were tracking IE7 bugs, worrying about the RSS feed validator, and viewing Drupal as an accessibility-and-web-standards-positive platform, at the...
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To Save Real News
IN a world where newspapers are dying and half the public believes fake news, what online news experiences need is design that is branded, authoritative, and above all, readable: Branded, because we...
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Medium to pay writers; program similar to Readability
INTERESTING. Medium will now pay writers. The revenue to pay writers will derive, not from advertising—Medium scorns it—but from member contributions. How Medium will pay writers Medium now publishes...
View ArticleResist revenge tweeting.
The people have removed a tyrant. I feel the joy and wonder of a newborn thing. My relief is so intense, it’s physical—my body has begun a slow unkinking, cell by cell, muscle by clenched muscle. But...
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Examining last week’s Verge-vs-Sullivan “Google ruined the web” debate, author Elizabeth Tai writes: I don’t know any class of user more abused by SEO and Google search than the writer. Whether...
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In search of a digital town square
Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and...
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“Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about...
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Quick, before everyone else thinks of it. Set the word “SUCCESSION” in Engravers Gothic and export it to a transparent PNG. Download photos of confederate general Mitch McConnell and Republican Johns...
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