My dear friend and occasional design compatriot, Deron Bauman, interviewed one of my favorite internet friends/web personalities, Tim Carmody. You should really read the interview: Deron Bauman: I think I’d like to start by talking about Liberal Arts 2.0. It’s an idea Jason Kottke proposed as a way to give context to what he does — and [...]

I’ve been arguing a less articulate version of Paul Ford’s perspective on the web for years: The web is not, despite the desires of so many, a publishing medium. The web is a customer service medium. “Intense moderation” in a customer service medium is what “editing” was for publishing. It’s certainly how clusterflock is modeled, [...]

I guest posted about the Future of Publishing over at the Lone Gunman, while Lloyd was wandering the globe. The series in order: There is something outside of the text. Social Publishing Books, Printing, and Self-Publishing “We have broken your business, now we want your machines.” Newspaper Odds and Ends New Authors and the Web Publishing [...]

It is a gorgeous afternoon here in St. Louis after a morning of rain and I have found myself in the usual haunt –with a large chunk of unexpected free time–with my left foot soaked and my right foot dry after a puddle across the street got the better of my agility, thinking about cognitive [...]