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Join Me At Voices That Matter

[caption id="attachment_747" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Join Me!"][/caption] I'm approaching the half way mark for my new CSS3 book, but I'm getting psyched up to amongst some heavy hitters in the Web industry at the upcoming Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference in San Francisco. It's just a little over a week until...
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LIVE(ish) – Fluid Web Typography at SXSWi 2010

I was poking around the SXSW site, and realized that the recording of my session on Web typography is finally available. I had to pick through the code a bit, but finally found the file I needed to embed. For reference, I'm also embedding the slide share version of the...
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The Evolution of HTML & CSS

I'm hard at work on my new book, CSS3 Visual Quickstart Guide, and I'm looking to get some feedback from you, my viewing audience. As part of chapter 1, I'll be quickly tracing the evolution of both CSS and HTML, and I put together this timeline to help to show...
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Heading to Berlin to Speak at Next10

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Next10 Conference"][/caption] I’m heading off to Berlin in mid-May to speak at Next10. The event includes over 100 high profile tech insiders speaking and is expected to draw over 1500 participants. The topic this year is “Game Changers," and I have not one, but two, great game...
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DEVO Focus Group Testing the Future at SXSW

I was privileged to participated in the DEVO Live focus group at SXSW this year, where I learned a lot about the rigorous of user research testing. If you look closly, I'm at the edge of the frame when the camera pans all the way to the left, wearing my...
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Shame on You Apple: A Musical Odyssey

Most of my friends think of me as an unabashed Apple fanboy who drools over Steve Jobs' every word. Truth-to-tell—although I’m a great fan of Apple’s products and design philosophy—many of their policies leave me chilled or outraged. I was reminded of this recently while I stood watching the band Stricken...
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Sketchnotes for FWT

Thanks to Mike Rohde for making these great "sketchnotes" of my lecture at SXSW and the Web Typography dinner afterward at the Athenian Grill . For more of Mike's great SXSW sketchnotes, visit his SXSW Interactive 2010 Flickr pages. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Sketchnotes from Fluid Web Typography."][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"...
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Meeting Bruce

I was watching Andrew Keen speak at SXSW Sunday. He’s the author of The Cult of the Amateur—a book that could be subtitled “everything Jason does is evil and destroying the fabric of American culture,” so I was not exactly an unbiased audience member. It was a surprisingly small room...
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Jason Reads from SiS at SXSW 09

[caption id="attachment_80" align="alignright" width="240" caption="At my SXSW Book Signing. I don't usually look this menacing."][/caption] At SXSW last week, I read Chapter 3, "The Myths of CSS", from my forthcoming book Speaking In Styles, and then did a book signing for CSS, DHTML, & Ajax at the Barnes & Noble booth....
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Interview with New Riders at SXSW 09

I had a great time at SXSW 2009. Met a lot of great people, heard a lot of great ideas, and ate a lot of great food. While I was there, I did a quick interview with Gary-Paul of New Riders about my upcoming book, Speaking In Styles, although it...
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