John Herrman
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Links: December 2018
George Bush, Who Steered Nation in Tumultuous Times, Is Dead at 94
I like this Bush obit as a crash course on the political forces that shaped the world during my formative years.
24 Ways
Always delighted to see this advent calendar of web design articles light up my RSS feed every December.
The Fun Is Back in Social Media…Again!
TikTok probably feels a lot like Flickr or Twitter in the early days, where everyone… See more →
“You may forget Facebook; it could happen sooner than you expect. But it’s not likely to forget you.” nytimes.com/2018/12/12/mag…
Links: February 2018
Hello dear reader!
February is gone, but its links remain.
My site was pretty quiet in February, up until yesterday when I published the final post in a series about the process behind my redesign. This one is about color, and the recent revelations I’ve had about how to work with it.
This month’s links have the usual range of topics, with the highlight for me being a treasure trove of interviews and demos on… See more →
“Above all, my old iPad has revealed itself as a cursed object of a modern sort. It wears out without wearing.” nytimes.com/2018/02/06/mag…
Links: July 2017
All the “wellness” products Americans love to buy are sold on both Infowars and Goop
Interesting look at how the same snake oil is marketed to very different audiences.
Trump and Putin’s Rashomon Summit
[T]he establishment of a cybersecurity working group with the two countries is somewhere between a head-scratcher and a punchline.
The Logic of Trump’s Sexist Attacks
The more a woman conforms to traditional gender norms, the more likely she is to experience… See more →
The last paragraph nails it so hard: “Two Minutes of Walking on the Internet as a Woman” theawl.com/2014/10/two-mi…
Yes, Comcast is awful, but sorry, I just don’t have any sympathy for people paid to be persuasive on the phone. theawl.com/2014/07/sympat…