DYLAN TWENEY
Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney

2016 posts
Rough Drafts

Tiny fonts! Aaarghh!

Memo from Jakob Nielsen to Web designers: For pity’s sake, please stop using tiny, fixed-size fonts on your pages and CSS (cascading style sheet) designs. Thank you, Jakob!
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Rough Drafts

Alex Golub on Lessig

Alex Golub has a brilliant critique of Lawrence Lessig’s recent OSCON speech — complete with the song that Lessig should have sung. Even Lessig commends it. And here’s Alex’s followup note, with a very pointed comment on Lessig vs. Winer.
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Published Work

Blogging for Dollars

Businesses are starting to use weblogs — those impromptu lists-cum-journals — as powerful tools for knowledge management and communications. Businesspeople might be forgiven for rolling their eyeballs when the word “weblog” is mentioned. After all, most media coverage to date has focused on weblogs
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Rough Drafts

Spam-filtering

A startup spam-filtering company is using haiku in email headers as a way of stopping spam. The idea is that you can set up your email program to reject all email that doesn’t contain this haiku in the header… but if spammers try to use the haiku, they can be sued for copyright and trademark […]
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Rough Drafts

Bruce Schneier

An excellent profile of Bruce Schneier in the September Atlantic , by Charles C. Mann, explains why the current administration’s approach to increasing national security is misguided. Some quotes: Encrypting transactions on the Internet, the Purdue computer scientist Eugene Spafford has remarked, “i
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