Category Archives: web

Progressive charts ...

Back in 2001 Tan­tek Çelik dreamt up a little poly­go­nal CSS hack, using the bevels of bor­ders to create angles in-​​browser. Even­tually, Lasse Reichs­tein Niel­sen made the tech­ni­que acces­si­ble. Back then, I was thin­king about CSS and wan­ted to try my hand at unob­tru­sive DHTML. So I was ins­pi­red to imple­ment sim­ple ren­de­ring of HTML lists as [...]

Keep Digging ...

John Gru­ber has called atten­tion to Digg’s sha­me­ful revi­val of site fra­ming, and I share his dis­gust. Though I’ve no expec­ta­tion of Digg traf­fic to my little blog, on prin­ci­ple I feel com­pe­lled to par­ti­ci­pate and block the Digg­Barr from obs­cu­ring my URLs.

Facebook Yelps ...

Facebook’s new adver­ti­sing model inc­lu­des publi­ca­tion of acti­vity from part­ner sites in news feeds. Their offi­cial list of affi­lia­tes does not inc­lude Yelp, but tonight, I had a little DHTML “toast” pop-​​up inform me my latest review would be sha­red on my Face­book profile. A little inves­ti­ga­ting shows that this was pulled off via a JavaSc­ript inc­lude, http://www.facebook.com/beacon/beacon.js.php [...]

Spellbot ...

As part of the day job I’ve had an index built that is fed from limi­ted web craw­ling and blog pings. The point is to feed a data warehouse that is used for social media research and analy­sis, the sort of thing you might use Tech­no­rati to do manually until you rea­lize just how big [...]

This blog is now Safely Ignored ...

About a decade after put­ting up my per­so­nal web­site, I’ve finally come up with a name for it. Wither “Safely Igno­red”? Jason and I had just finished trying to intro­duce some clients to the 21st cen­tury and the whole Bub­ble 2.0 uni­verse. This inc­lu­ded the usual clue­train ram­bling about con­ver­sing with your cus­to­mers rather than shou­ting at them, [...]
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