By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 26, 2007
Monday, 26 February 2007
- Zeldman: Gender and Ethnic Imbalance in Web Design ★
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Zeldman:
Gender and ethnic imbalance in web design speaker conference lineups reflects a wider such imbalance in the industry as a whole. This imbalance bothers me as much as it bothers Kottke. I am glad Kottke raised the issue in his recent post, although I think it is a mistake to hold conferences accountable for deeper problems in the industry they serve. But that doesn’t for a minute get conference planners off the hook.
- Apple TV Delayed Until ‘Mid-March’ ★
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The perils of pre-announcing.
- High-End Compact Cameras ★
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Nice round-up of current high-end digital point-and-shoots from Tim Bray and various commenters. I’m particularly intrigued by the Ricoh GR recommended by Jonathon Delacour.
- Brazil vs. Argentina ★
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Typographic humor. (Thanks to DF reader Robert Canales.)
- James Cameron Claims He’s Found the Coffin of Jesus and His Family ★
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I say he ought to go back to making action movies. I miss him.
- The Merlin Show ★
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New video podcast show by Merlin Mann. Love the theme song.
- Joyent.com: Now With More Jill ★
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Terrific redesign (and brand consolidation) from my friends and former colleagues at Joyent. They took the original brand — which was good (disclosure: I helped create it), but narrowly focused — and expanded it to include more products and services. Consider my hat tipped.
- Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll ★
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Interesting piece by Emily Nussbaum in New York Magazine, on the gap between those who grew up with the web and the rest of us old farts:
It’s been a long time since there was a true generation gap, perhaps 50 years—you have to go back to the early years of rock and roll, when old people still talked about “jungle rhythms.” Everything associated with that music and its greasy, shaggy culture felt baffling and divisive, from the crude slang to the dirty thoughts it was rumored to trigger in little girls. That musical divide has all but disappeared. But in the past ten years, a new set of values has sneaked in to take its place, erecting another barrier between young and old. And as it did in the fifties, the older generation has responded with a disgusted, dismissive squawk.
(Thanks to Chris Pepper.)
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I love that there’s a shot from Boogie Nights.
Update: Scott McNulty points out that the ad doesn’t include the word “iPhone”.
- Best Buy Using ‘Plays for Sure’ Kiosk for iPod Accessories ★
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How long until Microsoft takes “Plays for Sure” out back and shoots it?
- Scorsese, ‘The Departed’, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Win Oscars ★
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Best director, best picture, best documentary — sometimes the Academy actually gets them right. The wife and I got a little choked up watching Scorsese pick up his Oscar.