DYLAN TWENEY
Rough Drafts

Rough Drafts

Essays and blog posts I've written that haven't been published elsewhere yet

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Rough Drafts

Excellent Udelliana

Thanks to xian on blogistan, I’ve been reading up on old Jon Udell columns: Udell does an in-depth reflection on Userland 8. Udell’s story, from last year, does a great job of explaining how weblogs can be used to marry knowledge and project management.
Dylan Tweney
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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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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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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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