This post may someday evolve into a list of nice hashtags. Working On My Novel A project by Cory Arcangel: Working On My Novel. He will eventually make a book out of it – a hilariously wonderful project. You can also simply run this as a twitter search: Tweets about “working on my novel” Which…
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projects vs. things
A nice bit about portfolio site taxonomies: My biggest frustration with the old site was the threshold I had set for myself of “projects”. Does all this work add up to a project? Does it have a thumbnail image? A title? I found myself wanting to share lots of writing and notes, but the old…
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UPDATE 4 (oct 18): an interesting post-WCEU article from Caspar Hübinger (MarketPress). UPDATE 3 (oct 7): a good article here. Added Stella and Multilingual Press. Babble went from alpha to beta and has now a website. UPDATE 2: found an interesting overview of plugins here: http://comparewp.org/ UPDATE: notes from the March 27 2013 meetup have…
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Designing the LGM 2013 Fieldnotes book
A fieldnotes book designed for the Libre Graphics Meeting, a four-day conference at Medialab Prado, Madrid. March 2013.
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In this post, I am trying to formalize a few practical lessons from the Libre Type workshop, which I gave in February 2013 at HEAD in Geneva. Globally, the group dynamic worked great, I believe this was the most successful workshop I have been running so far. Here are some raw notes about things that…
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A couple of pics from the first WordPress Developer Meetup in Geneva. Speakers included Gilles Vauvarin, Friedhelm Weinberg, Nicolas Godel, and myself. This Meetup was dedicated to plugins, the idea was to do 4-min Lightning Talks and present our favorite plugins. Here is a list of what we covered: Gilles: WordPress Database Reset, Duplicate Post…
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Welcome to part 2/10 of the #back2blog series. I spent some hours yesterday getting familiar with the microdata specification (and most importantly, which specification to follow), in order to inject semantic “Event”, “Person” and “CreativeWork” data into some under-production web projects. While reading through Google’s Rich snippets tutorials, I noticed that the links to the…
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Ten minutes ago, I read about the #back2blog challenge being launched today by @stephtara. So here’s a quick and dirty post, summarizing some thoughts about one of the webs most underrated standards: Rich Site Summary, aka Really Simple Syndication, aka RSS. Years ago, I wrote my first RSS feed, manually in a text editor, in…
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Libre Type Specimens
Creation of a type specimen book showcasing 200+ free and open source fonts, made in five days with students of HEAD – Geneva. January 2013.
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WordCamp Paris 2013: my feedback
Some images from WordCamp Paris 2013, which was a great occasion to meet with the French WordPress community. During the hackday on Saturday 19th, I had the pleasure to contribute actively with two proposals: A lightning talk on “how to improve WP Core without touching a line of code”, based on pages 28-54 of the…
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