Articles by Year
2008
- 2008: The year in books
- Voting open for SXSW 2009
- Speaking at Tech Cocktail Conference
- Eat better, feel better
- Save No Sweat
- Verizon V740 on Mac OS X: It just works
- The best things in life are free
2007
- 2007: The year in cities
- Version 4
- Remote control magic with iPhone and Telekinesis
- One weekend with the iPhone
- Bluetooth advertising in New York
- A question about iPhone apps
- Lucky find — Maritime Hotel in New York City
- Googled
- GWT’s new trick
- Plain text wiki
- Now playing
- Optimizing JavaScript with DOM Access Objects
- Will Phalen and the Stereo Addicts in Chicago tonight
- I like Apostle of Hustle
- Getting things done with Mori
- One week and a few days with Apple TV
- EMI to sell their catalog DRM-free on iTunes
- Cat food recall
- Wesabe
- Microformats
- Speaking at SXSW
- We moved
- Chris Thile’s How to Grow a Woman From the Ground
- DiskWarrior is amazing
- Introducing Will Phalen and the Stereo Addicts
- PowerBook G4: Not kitten proof
- Disabled HTML form elements are not submitted
2006
- Soundtrack to My Life
- Five things you may not know about me, but do now
- Kittens!
- Read this!
- How I use TextMate
- So long, suckers
- FeedBurner is hiring engineers!
- Weekly
- Looking for a good, free, easy-to-use server control panel
- Brainstorming @ Inventables
- The Onion (print) redesign
- Renting vs Buying
- Commenting on this site is broken
- How to rip and compress DVDs in Mac OS X
- Don’t Miss Tech Cocktail!
- I screwed up my feed
- Back in Chicago
- Off to San Francisco
- Now hosted by RimuHosting
- Messing around with Amazon S3 access on Mac OS X
- Designers: Use the scrollbar
- FeedBurner ads on web sites
- A few details about the FeedBurner.com redesign
- Living the Google Life, part 2
- One great thing about Gmail
- Enough about me
- Living the Google Life
- New ride
- Happy birthday to this site
- Projects
- An idea for an application
- Busy busy busy
- Want to work at FeedBurner?
- New IRO frame on the way
- The Subscription Age (part 2): Digital Content Delivery
- The Subscription Age (part 1)
- 2005: The year in cities
- One Dream, One Web Browser Rendering Engine
- Try! by John Mayer Trio
- Back from New York (and Green Lake, and Milwaukee, and…)
2005
- Solve the problem you have now
- Songbird has piqued my interest
- Carson Systems’ DropSend is a great way to move large files
- Google Local for Mobile
- Portable Media Expo wrap-up
- I’m going to be at Portable Media Expo this weekend
- 9rules round three
- A quick rant about Ajax goodness, and other assorted news
- Family photo roundup
- Front and center
- I’m playing at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago this weekend
- Treehouse magazine launches
- And now, a brief message from the City of Chicago
- Poll: What are your preferences for Dashboard preferences?
- My first podcast (coming soon)
- FeedBurner redesign
- Tagging anxiety
- Roadtrip!
- Content management at the UW Arboretum (it’s about people)
- On the run, again
- New work from ZEMU
- Blogging is hard (and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise)
- Starts, stops and changes
- Running a musical relay
- Gmail as a spam filter
- A short review of Backpack
- Welcome to the 9rules Network
- Notes
- Smarter iPod shuffling
- Wanted: Great calendar system
- Hire me (or at least take a look at my new portfolio)
- We found an apartment!
- Appearing live: Me
- Florida report
- Designing from the outside in
- Recommended reading, part 2 (weblogs)
- Badger Herald mini-CMS
- Recommended reading, part 1 (books)
- The Concept Test
- Whatever happened to Whisper?
- Tweak, tweak, tweak
- Building the web OS
- Using subcategories in MovableType 3
- MT3 Subcategories update
- MT3 Subcategories: Not working
- Wanted: Freelance web developer
- Stop arguing about the future of distributed computing (it’s here)
2004
- My life in T-shirts
- Trashing my childhood
- Dear spammers
- Some pretty amazing stuff
- Using phpThumb
- Elite designers (briefly)
- Chicago report
- Please vote today
- Thoughts on the iPod Photo
- Talking to the Wisconsin Engineer
- Ashlee Simpson vs. the web
- MovableType 2.63 bug
- Richard Edelman is blogging
- The future of this site
- Two-car pileup in Chicago
- Strategic content management
- Dear Oprah
- Voters Information Guide
- Creating expandable menus using CSS and Javascript
- Beware: Tweaking in public
- Web strategy: the unspoken step
- What I did on my summer Labor Day vacation
- Eyetrack III is a gold mine for web designers
- Creating a newspaper web site with MovableType, web standards and ideas from the blogosphere
- Passive headline written
- RE: “Now with drop shadows!”
- Markdown reaches 1.0, and I stand corrected
- A few notes, on life
- Better Anything Rotator
- Secondhand speaks
- A bit of tech journalism nit-picking…
- Adjusting the work day
- Photos
- Anil Dash: On leaving New York
- The iPod as a fashion accessory
- This man works in the White House
- Future media consumption
- Guess who’s seeing Brad Mehldau and John Scofield this Friday?
- I love Google because…
- Do not hire this band
- Just so you no longer have to be tormented by “comment spam”
- Comment spam
- Social networking and iTunes
- At one, four and a half
- This sound is public relations
- Update
- The trouble with J-school, by John Buchel
- A happy birthday
- New York, New York
- How much is enough?
- Recording in the cavern, January 2004
- This week in music
- On top of the world
- Our place in information space
- From one American hell to another
- Extreme weblog makeover (or how johnzeratsky.com went 2.0)
- Jazz Activist, part 10
- Here, allow me to mislead you
- At the mall
- I’m back: a doozy
- I’m at the point where this is a good excuse for a post
2003
- A gift
- Happy
- The Cultural Christmas
- That was quick
- Pass it on, from patriot to patriot
- iConsignment
- And again
- In offense of marriage, by John Buchel
- Slightly mislead
- Attack of the news wire, part 2
- Come and get it
- Now that is innovation!
- New work
- Enter, copycats
- Psst: Follow their lead
- Rocks redux
- Just how evil is URL cruft?
- Jammed
- A purposeful use of the blockquote tag (I hope)
- Spam
- And I refuse to use dictionary.com
- The beauty of biased news
- Apology
- Time warp: Jazz Activist, part 4
- Jazz Activist, part six
- Rejuvinated
- Bring out the exclamation points!
- Watching for falling Tablets
- Photos
- A win for market libertarians?
- How to grow
- Rocks
- Paper, paper
- Jazz Activist, part five
- “It was fun while it lasted”
- Friends on the web
- Good, bad
- Ocean Grill
- Madison.com, redesigned
- Using the G5
- Linky link
- Holy ventilation, Batman
- Miss me?
- Weekend
- Jazz Activist, part three
- How a focus on profits benefits the consumer
- A bit Microsoftian
- No, not the Beatles song
- Some things to read
- Did he try Google?
- Work
- Coming of age
- Thinking…
- People are talking about me
- Busy
- Forget Howard Dean
- Jazz activist, part two
- Nifty blog interactions
- Writer’s block
- Jazz Activist, part one
- Scary
- Evolution of a blogroll (or why I love NetNewsWire)
- Biking in the rain
- When I grow up
- Matt Dolbey
- Someone get ESPN2 on the line…
- The famous Molly Webb
- EIC says:
- Crisis (slightly) averted
- The nature of the news
- Lucky
- I went to Maine…
- Changes
- Oops
- I *heart* semantic HTML
- Really, I swear.
- Gee, Dubya
- My blogging sweetheart
- Because a link is a like a vote
- A short break
- Be careful what you say
- Fireball strikes again
- Gentle censorware
- My fourth
- Photo madness
- Kickin’ it old school
- Rice
- Graduation
- Rube Hondaberg
- Book report
- Album music
- Penguins + Monkeys
- Wise
- iChatting
- Thank you, Mr. Hargrove
- How not to welcome users
- On doing nothing
- Michigan Ave photos
- Little laptop
- Content Management
- Blogging live…
- Kindergarten keyboarding?
- Yes, I’m back…
- Something worth posting about…
- If you can see this…
- Return of the lung, part 3
- Weblog? Check!
- A few things
- Moving on… down
- Oprah’s ‘favorite’ things
- Moving on up
- Apple store grand miss-out
- Lung update
- Doctors are the best
- Lies, damn lies
- I lied (sort of)
- On hold, again
- RSS for blogs
- Monkeys + Shakespeare
- So much to say
- Too much writing
- Blog moderation research
- Rules-based design
- From Wired
- Lazy web: Blog editors/moderators
- Shameless promotion
- My turn
- Wireless power
- A real beauty
- If this is what it takes…
- We’ll see in 3 days
- Rolling and spinning
- Absurd
- Six Apart grows
- Ulu redux
- Watch it, France
- Rumororama: Piles
- TV turnoff week
- Mac news roundup
- The Weekend
- Obituaries
- The Mosaic goes mainstream
- Death of the browser
- The Great Review Trade, week 2: For real
- The death of Red Herring
- Apple: $14M profit for Q2
- Saddam’s porn career surfaces
- Mac news roundup
- The Great Review Trade: Week 2
- Panther piles
- TuftEnglish
- It’s at yellow
- Just kidding
- The cost of free information
- God, this is cool
- I am J. Brown no more
- Possibly the most cliched post ever
- Holy expansion, Batman
- Name your price
- Ulu
- Google “news”
- Connecting sources
- Game over?
- Battle on the google front
- The great review trade: Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’
- About plants
- Journablogging
- A plea for free
- Yay for news readers!
- Quicksand
- Indie film distribution
- Apple’s online music system
- A discussion on hip-hop, jazz, and music education
- Full text of Saddam ‘holy war’ message
- Attack of the clones
- Happy April Fools’ Day!
- PayPal charged with breaking Patriot Act
- iTablet?
- Adobe enters DVD market
- Peter Arnett fired
- Pulled for protesting
- New jazz
- Mac news roundup
- Geek update
- E-Election?
- Embedded
- Having sex at 11
- Rip, Burn, Respect
- Mapping the blogosphere
- Gore joins Apple
- Welcome (oh, the irony)