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Now Playing: “Side Two”
For your listening pleasure: 17 new tracks of instrumental music pulling from jazz-funk, Italian movie soundtracks, electronica, hip-hop, art rock and beyond.
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Another Saturday, Another Song.
🎧 “Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end.
Design
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Remembrance of Websites Past
2000 was the peak year for Adobe’s website. It was a content site filled with creative how-to articles, opinion pieces, and artist interviews where you could also, if you wished, buy or get info on Adobe products. Now this is how you create a product site for a suite of creative products, I told myself…
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AI, Disruption, and Standards
Individually, we have very little power, but together we have a great deal of power. In response to a series of Medium articles by Patrick Neeman—like this one that addressed issues of AI governance, fairness, and standardization—publisher Louis Rosenfeld invited Patrick and me to come on his show and talk about AI and standards. A…
My Glamorous Life
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My Glamorous Life: in Which I am a Target
As I limped home from Physical Therapy, a man walking in the opposite direction suddenly planted himself directly in front of me and slammed me in the head with a heavy bag. It was a…
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Undersung Hero: M. Frog
I bought this LP because of its Milton Glaser-designed cover featuring the colored pencil musical notations of composer/synthesist and former monk Jean-Yves Labat, alias M. Frog. It was 1973; I was about to become a…
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My Glamorous Life: A Good Lie
For “My father’s favorite food is,” the kid had written SALAD.
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Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools
Why first impressions are often correct. Today’s jerk is tomorrow’s techno-fascist.
the Daily Report
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Mix
The start of a beautiful weekend.
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Her Glamorous Life
Snow White—17 years old—didn’t come meowing for food when I entered the kitchen at 6 a.m. An hour later I found her lying motionless on the sofa. I stared until she moved, slightly, nestling her…
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The Most Important Industrial Designer of All Time
One Frenchman can’t be wrong. Push to the edge of what people will accept. Stop there. Raymond Loewy called it MAYA, and used it to design the modern world. The most important industrial designer you’ve…
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For students who make websites
Meet WordPress.com Education, a new, free product for teachers and students.
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A Permanent Home
Your writing needs a permanent home—a domain that you own and control. Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived. First, it was social media like Facebook. Then blogging networks like…
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