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Timoni Grone is a web designer in San Francisco. This is her blog.

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Posts about the internets
November 6th, 2009
It really bothers me that the definition of success has changed from profits to followers, friends, and feed count. This crap doesn’t mean anything. Kids are coming out of school thinking, I want to start the next YouTube or Facebook. If a restaurant served more food than everybody else but lost money on every diner, would it be successful? No. But on the Internet, for some reason, if you have more users than everyone else, you’re successful. No, you’re not.

The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals, in Inc Magazine

I wince a little inside quoting Fried, but this is pretty much exactly what I think every time anybody talks about how successful Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are. Popular, yes. Successful, as in they have succeeded? No.

the internets startups
August 29th, 2009
This is the worst car accident I have ever seen. Everything is in the wrong place. — sexpigeon It occurs to me that, if Sexpigeon and Magic Molly got together, the resulting progeny would be (magically? sexily?) able to express any Ultimate Truth in three words or less. So…get to it, kids.

This is the worst car accident I have ever seen. Everything is in the wrong place. — sexpigeon

It occurs to me that, if Sexpigeon and Magic Molly got together, the resulting progeny would be (magically? sexily?) able to express any Ultimate Truth in three words or less.

So…get to it, kids.

san francisco writers the internets
August 27th, 2009
BONUS Altered States Megamix, via threeframes

BONUS Altered States Megamix, via threeframes

cinema the internets
August 25th, 2009

Then there’s the peculiar way in which certain BBC presenters and journalists (yes, Humphrys Snr., I’m looking at you) pronounce internet addresses. It goes ‘www DOT … bbc DOT… co DOT… uk SLASH… today SLASH…’ etc., and carries the implication that they have no idea what any of this new-fangled stuff is about, but that you lot out there will probably know what it means.

I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.

Douglas Adams on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, via @kevinmarks

the internets authors writers
July 26th, 2009
Getting crowded on there, via riscfuture From Tim’s photos of the Scribd party.

Getting crowded on there, via riscfuture

From Tim’s photos of the Scribd party.

photos party the internets
July 8th, 2009
An interesting thing happens when your customer base reaches a certain size: You cease having edge cases. I think we’ve probably been at that point for a good year now – maybe longer – but we’ve really felt it recently. Mistakes, bugs, incompatibilities, and related issues that used to affect a handful now affect hundreds. 1% is real number now.esign

The end of the edge case, in Signals vs. Noise

design work the internets usability
June 16th, 2009
Things about Web Images I Just Learned, from Gabriel Weinberg's Blog

Handy notes about dealing with images in browsers.
design the internets web design
June 12th, 2009
Diamond Dave

David Lee Roth’s greatest mini-hits now available as the punchline to any awkward conversation. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHYYYYYYEAH!
music the internets
May 13th, 2009
All things considered, we were very happy with the explorations, how [Jason Zimdars] explained himself (although he’s a bit verbose — something he’ll have to work on), and the decisions he made.

[ The newest Signal: Jason Zimdars, designer - (37signals) ]

I can’t believe 37signals included a criticism of their new team member in their introductory blog post. I read them, I have a sense of what they find acceptable, I appreciate they pride themselves on being transparent, but I still can’t believe it.

design the internets
May 12th, 2009
topherchris . Recommendation Letter

Hilarious. I want somebody to write one of these about me someday.
the internets society
May 1st, 2009
At these numbers, Tumblr needs to start rethinking how they show favorites and reblogs.

At these numbers, Tumblr needs to start rethinking how they show favorites and reblogs.

interaction design the internets
April 23rd, 2009
[ from Marian Bantjes’ website ]

[ from Marian Bantjes’ website ]

design the internets
April 16th, 2009
If your tweet is good enough that someone would pay $20 for it, it’s valuable enough that no one should just steal it.

[ via Neven Mrgan’s tumbl ]

Yeah. I’d agree that if somebody is making money off my twitters—other than Twitter—that “somebody” ought to be me. Maybe me plus whoever came up with the money idea. I’m a generous gal.

society the internets
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