Cooperative Overlap One of the biggest sources of miscommunication is people having different styles of communication, or different norms about the right way to express emotion...
Design Matters I was delighted to get to speak with Debbie Millman for her venerable podcast, “Design Matters”. If you have an hour to spare, please do check out the conver...
Beyond the Tyranny of Dad Tweets Much of my presence on social media, especially on Twitter, is predicated on the foilbes of parenthood. “Dad Tweets” are a venerable staple of the medium, as f...
The Semiotics of Like We don’t do nearly enough to examine what it means when we perform common actions on our social networks. These aren’t just guttural, reflexive responses! Th...
Responses and Replies A few nice conversations around the web, either in response to or inspired by what I’ve been talking about here: My favorite TechCrunch post in a long time...
If You Blogged It, It Did Happen At the beginning of this year, I wrote a piece called if you didn’t blog it, it didn’t happen , about how your thoughts, ideas and conversations need a place...
Call and Response As ever, the best thing about blogging is the conversations it kicks off. Some nice responses to recent posts here and around the web: In a follow-up to...
Continuing the Conversation Phew! Seems like there are a ton of people talking about the topics we’ve all been discussing here lately. Here’s some highlights: Startup.gov After I pos...
On Blogs and Conversational Marketing There’s been a (mostly boring) conversation going between some blogs over the past few days regarding the line between editorial and advertising. Largely, this...
Continuing the Conversation I take it back , people do sometimes leave good comments. I’m thrilled with the comments on “A Malcolm and a Martin” , as well as the conversations on othe...
People Really Wanna Talk About Star One of those interesting side-effects of having lots of old blog posts around is that sometimes they come back to life. With Star being fired last week, ther...
Nice Guys Finish First Nick Bradbury makes great apps , but better than that, he’s a thoughful and articulate person. In having a conversation about politics, he’s able to say "...
dork showtunes Dork Showtunes, from an IM conversation with Andre: andretorrez : hey andretorrez : question andretorrez : i have a div anildash : ok anildash : and i’ve got...
Shannon talks about multiple-AIM-window conversation Shannon talks about multiple-AIM-window conversation confusion , and mentions that she actually talked about the person she was talking to . I gotta say, I...
Words that I use too much Words that I use too much in everyday conversation: vexed alas fungible poop I need new words. Any suggestions?...
So, uh, yeah... a while So, uh, yeah… a while ago my employer had a story that jumped on the post-straight bandwagon. Yaaawn....
I'm back! Thanks so much I’m back! Thanks so much to all of you for your patience. While I was gone, I had this page up, and many of you were kind enough to contribute your sites...
It popped up in conversation It popped up in conversation with Matt , but I think a truly apt term for the Internet that we’re mourning the death of is the Unreasonable Web. If you’ve...
Partial transcript of a conversation Partial transcript of a conversation I had with Dinah , starting with me yammering about Office XP Smart Tags: Anil Dash :the Tags are like DeepLeap for...
My blog-surfing list is in My blog-surfing list is in tumult. Meg thinks she has nothing good to say. While I doubt that’s true, I’m glad she can step away from something that isn’t g...
