Let’s Change Things Up a Bit

Shawn Medero — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:27:49 +0000

While I really like the Daily Brief “format” I find myself longing for a more conversational tone here. I believe the key to making a longer format entry work, for me at least, will be constantly revising one post for the day. We’ll give it a shot here and I even enabled comments. gasp!

At lunch time I wondered how well Google’s iPad-customized UI for Gmail would run in a Fluid instance. The answer? Pretty well. I noticed the type was mostly set in Arial (gag) and there were a myriad of scrolling/sizing bugs that you’d never run into on an actual touchscreen device.

David Hemphill’s also ran into these problems and was nice enough to provide a userstyle and userscript to make Gmail’s iPad UI run well enough in Fluid. So far so good, though I seem to have lost Fluid’s ability to set an OS X Dock badge representing the number of unread emails (I believe it gathers this by parsing the element’s node text.</p> <hr /> <p>Would it suck to be replying to a blog entry where the content changed on you throughout the day? I’ll do my best to keep the editing to corrections and adding thoughts to the bottom of the entry. How’s that?</p> <hr /> <p><a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/">Tweetie 2 (for the iPhone)</a> should have a method for entering a custom geotag instead of always defaulting to your current location. This tripped me up this afternoon when I wanted to geotag something after the fact because when I first though to tweet about it I was at a busy street intersection.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Daily Brief, March 5th 2010, Morning Edition</h1> <p>Shawn Medero — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:34:00 +0000</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.dwell.com/articles/an-introduction--to-universal-design.html">An Introduction to Universal Design</a>, the concept that design should work for everyone: novices, experts, disabled, and non-disabled</li> <li><a href="http://www.pictorymag.com/showcases/neighborhood-treasure/">A photo gallery of neighborhood haunts and hangouts</a> curated by Laura Brunow Miner, former editor-in-chief of JPG magazine.</li> <li>I know I should stop linking to Claire Zulkey’s work, but she’s got such an amazing content; like <a href="http://www.zulkey.com/2010/03/the_jonathan_katz_interview.php">this interview with Jonathan Katz</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15546095">China’s successful economy isn’t helping their political leaders sleep any easier</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.dailyfilmdose.com/2007/05/long-take.html">The Greatest Long Tracking Shots in Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.publicradioplayer.org/?p=1071">Public Radio Player, a free iPhone app for streaming live audio of over 500 public radio stations, has been updated to version 2.1</a>. New features include a sleep timer and a wake-up alarm. Also announced was a new round of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, so let’s hear it for socialism. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/public-radio-remakes-itself-by-entering-the-iphone-age.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">Ars Technica has a review of the new version</a></li> </ul> </article> <article> <h1>Daily Brief, February 23rd 2010, Afternoon Edition</h1> <p>Shawn Medero — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:45:07 +0000</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201002u/grateful-dead-links">Grateful Dead & Academia</a></li> <li><a href="http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/11/daily-brief-february-11th-2010-afternoon-edition/">Previously rumored</a>, now confirmed: <a href="http://sprudge.com/pour-over-and-over-and-over-coming-to-11000-starbucks-near-you/">Starbucks rolls out single-cup “pour-over” coffee on March 9th, nationwide”</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2010/02/23/mimeo_and_the_kleptopus_king">Web-wizard Shaun Inman is branching out out into iPhone video games</a></li> <li><a href="http://ascher.ca/blog/2010/02/10/thunderbird-in-2010/">Mozilla Thunderbird’s plans for 2010 include becoming a self-sustainable business</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2010/02/19/despite-federal-investment-ohio-3c-corridor-under-threat-from-state-republicans/">Federal government hands Ohio money for new trains, tracks and passenger service stations but the state legislature doesn’t seem to want it</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/community/columns/other-columns/e3ie935cc06a403502293ca98754f70ace3">How marketers use data to give consumers a “sense” of community</a></li> </ul> </article> <article> <h1>Are We Focusing Too Much on Mobile WebKit?</h1> <p>Shawn Medero — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:40:05 +0000</p> <p>Peter-Paul Koch <a href="http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/02/the_iphone_obse.html">“shouts at web developers who think that delicately inserting an iPhone up their ass is the same as mobile web development.”</a></p> <p>The article is full of other link-bait worthy quotes, but the basic point is worth discussing: Are web developers endangering the web ecosystem by coding specifically for mobile WebKit user-agents?</p> <p>The blog focuses on the iPhone pretty heavily, but I think the problem is at a level higher than that… WebKit is seen as “the only mobile browser worth coding for” right now.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/08/mobile-web-broswer-criticism">Guardian’s Technology Blog has some further commentary about the quriksmode post</a>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Experience Chad Ochocinco on Your iPhone/iPod Touch</h1> <p>Shawn Medero — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:11:14 +0000</p> <p><a href="http://www.rocksoftware.com/apps_01.html"></a></p> <p>I wish I could leave this as a posted without comment, but it is <a href="http://www.rocksoftware.com/apps_01.html">not so easy</a>. My favorite feature is:</p> <blockquote> <p>What would Ocho Do? Submit questions to Chad and he will select a few and answer them within the app.</p> </blockquote> <p>Brilliant. I give the man props for totally understanding what modern day pro-sports are about. Just look at his <a href="http://twitter.com/OGOchOCinco">Twitter stream</a> or <a href="http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/blog/2009/11/bengals_wr_wants_to_make_sure_ravens_dont_ochostinko.html">this stunt he pulled for an upcoming game against the Ravens</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Chad Ochocinco, the Bengals’ flamboyant wide receiver, said today on 105.7 FM that he sent gift baskets containing deodorant to the Ravens’ secondary and to linebackers Terrell Suggs and Ray Lewis.</p> <blockquote> <p>“I not only sent them gift baskets, but I sent them something they could use so they don’t sweat,” Ochocinco said.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </article> </main></body></html>

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