May, 2011

Links for May 29th

Adactio: Journal—The good new days

Jeremy Keith compiles a fantastic list of techniques for responsive images, helping us see that we're once again in a really fast-moving time for web design.

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html

html5

javascript

programming

design

Raising Children in a Media World | Everyday Liturgy

"The two prominent metaphors for media engagement are consumption and conversation. To me, consumption implies a passive, couch potato mentality. I will sit here and let the commercials and shows wash over me. This metaphor sees entertainment as the goal of all media. The second metaphor is conversation. This implies a relational stance toward media. The person and the media are on equal levels, and media is something to be engaged, wrestled, contemplated and critiqued. This metaphor sees art as the goal of all media."

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parenting

media

culture

Day 1: Seattle Web App Masters Tour » UIE Brain Sparks

Jared Spool's Web App Masters Tour is a wonderful thing. Not being able to be there, these notes on the sessions are also wonderful things. Heavy interest in mobile experience.

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user-experience

design

mobile

usability

Links for May 26th

How to Email Busy People – humbledMBA

Advice on how to email busy people – the kind that always have a thousand unread messages, and no time to spend on things that may in fact interest them.

tags:

email

entrepreneurship

business

First hopes for fatherhood

May 25th, 2011

I became a father the other day. It's all quite surreal, still, so I'm really not sure what to think about it in any immediate sense.

Links for May 24th

Put Your Baby In The Crib Without Waking It Up – How To — Father Apprentice

"Hark! Today I reveal to you a trick that will make you the master of the put down. It’s called the Ultimate Sleeper Put-Down Move 2.0."

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father-apprentice

parenting

Eschatological issues in Pentecostalism

May 20th, 2011

As you probably know, there is a group of really vocal, largely ridiculed folks who believe the rapture will happen tomorrow at 6pm.

Links for May 20th

Responsive Web Design or Separate Mobile Site? Eh. It Depends. (Global Moxie)

This post, and also some of the really good comments, helps sum up a good perspective on responsive web design vs. device-specific design.

tags:

responsive-design

content-strategy

user-experience

usability

mobile

design

Links for May 19th

Bloug: Sweat the important things

"One reason sites suck is that so many of us have forgotten why our sites exist. We get distracted, lose sight of priorities, and end up with sites that don't do the most important things users want. Such a site is kind of like Swiss Army knife without the, um, knife."

tags:

user-experience

information-architecture

usability

design

Links for May 18th

Tinkering Monkey

"Tinkering Monkey is a fine woodworking studio that makes simple, high-quality goods for everyday living." I've never been into woodworking, but have close friends who do it. It's wonderful to find a well-designed site for them to look at.

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woodworking

ecommerce

inspiration

Teaching methods: An alternative vote | The Economist

"…one of the groups was switched to a style of teaching known as deliberate practice, which inverts the traditional university model. Class time is spent on problem-solving, discussion and group work, while the absorption of facts and formulae is left for homework. Students were given reading assignments before classes… The results were striking."

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education

Links for May 16th

The New Teatment and “what now for the church” | p.ost

Andrew Perriman reflects on his "consistent narrative-historical reading" of the New Testament, and what it does and does not mean for the church today. I've read his writings for years, and while I'm much more on the side of N.T. Wright, and more so the Anabaptists, I find his perspective compelling and valuable.

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bible

new-testament

theology

» The ‘IxD Bauhaus’ – what happens next? Johnny Holland – It's all about interaction » Blog Archive

"Occasionally, amidst the rapid rise and fall of trends, fashion and fancy, we are faced with true revolution: paradigm shifts that throw out excess baggage of some kind and usher in new ways of thinking and seeing altogether. The catch is that you need to have the benefit of hindsight to truly measure their effectiveness. With this in mind, I believe that the interaction design community is witnessing an important revolution — an ‘IxD Bauhaus’ of sorts."

tags:

user-experience

design

Links for May 13th

How the Fall Makes You Feel | Donald Miller's Blog

"Often when I consider the ramifications of the fall and how narrowly we define and reduce those complicated dynamics, how we reduce them to lust and greed and petty vices, I realize something much greater has happened. Essentially, we are all calling out for God to touch us that we may know we are here, and yet he waits, and we go untouched and seek out the knowing we exist in a thousand other ways."

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theology

old-testament

donald-miller

This is Not Actually a Blog Post – Brian McLaren

Brian McLaren traces his own journey of thinking about homosexuality. Regardless of whether you agree with him or sit to his left or right, it's a good read, especially in light of part 2.

tags:

theology

homosexuality

brian-mclaren

This is Not Actually a Blog Post – Brian McLaren

And this is the aforementioned part 2. It's important to see this, in light of all the recent criticisms of Jim Wallis and Sojourners. My own view is that if progressive types can't accept someone who may or may not disagree with them on one issue (but has thus far not taken a position), but has definitely dropped the ball on a justice issue for whatever reason, they are acting as badly as conservatives who do the same thing and are rightly criticized for it.

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jim-wallis

homosexuality

brian-mclaren