Buggy Behavior at the LouvreThe Louvre lifts a photo ban, and visitors go insane. A small change in the rules can spark dramatic behavior shifts, not always for the better.
Pay To Play: Fair Price for Good CommunityA new bike-sharing program in Paris suggests that a modest fee buys good behavior.
And speaking of version control...Neil Fraser's diff library makes it easy to compare blocks of text.
Promises, Problems and Product DevelopmentAs you build a product or service, identify the important features that are
not being requested.
Genie Five-Oh! A Big Medium Progress ReportToday’s beta update marks the 50th pre-release version of
Big Medium 2. Yep, count ‘em... Fifty. What's left to do?
Stefan Sagmeister’s List of “Things I Have Learned”For anyone working to craft a happy and creative existence (and who isn’t?), this seems like a good list to crib from.
A "Jogcast" for New RunnersMy "couch to 5k" training plan for new runners is made even better by Robert Ullrey's podcast version.
Lightning! Blimps! Submarines! And, um, Machine Tags!Amid flying tomatoes, lightning strikes and Tardis sightings, much code was hacked at London Hack Day.
Big in TexasI'm Austin-bound in 2008, thanks to a surprise windfall: free registration at the SXSW conference.
Ghost in the Machine TagWith Hack Day fast approaching and my gadget-building reveries fading, I'm toying with the idea of making a web gizmo to generate machine tags.
You're It: Why Tags Matter to Your SiteI just added tags to Big Medium 2. Here's why tags aren't just for YouTubes, Flickrs and blogs.
Choppers, Mashups and GearsI got a bunch of ideas at Google Developer Day. And a toy helicopter.
Don't Fence Me In: Good Neighbors and Good Software DecisionsThe adage “good fences make good neighbors” is only occasionally true in collaborative software.
The Lightbox LowdownMy latest work on Big Medium includes improvements to Big Medium's “lightbox” slideshow feature for browsing image galleries.
Understanding the PianoUser communities own and define technologies as much or more than the inventors. A piano from 1817 is the perfect example.