So, my article is up… thanks to all the excellent editors who pushed me to finish the dang thing over the last seven months. Procrastination is a fine art, my friends.
Personas and the Role of Design Documentation - Boxes and Arrows
Here’s a nugget:
A persona document can be very useful for design—and for some […]

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I have no idea why, over the last few versions, WordPress hasn’t been able to notify me of comments, etc, but I’m very glad I found this post:
How to fix WordPress when it doesn’t notify you of comments | MeAndMyDrum
Evidently just commenting out a line in a root file of WordPress will do the trick. […]

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Lawrence Lessig recently posted this calm, engaging presentation on his site: 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog).

I’d like to add a note or two…

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I’ll be the first to admit that I can fall for hype. Not more than most people, I’d say, but I know I can do it.
But when it comes to politics, it’s very hard to believe any hype at all. I’m terribly jaded about it.
I’m voting for Obama in spite of the hype. […]

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As networked social applications mature, they’re evolving more nuanced ways of constructing and maintaining an identity. Two of the major factors in online identity are How you present yourself, and Who you know.
How you present yourself: “Flourishing”
Flourishing is how we ornament ourselves and display ourselves to others. Think of peacocks flourishing their tail-feathers. […]

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I don’t know the exact release date, but I do know that it was right about ten years ago that I first heard OK Computer.
In May of ‘97, I had just finished my MFA in Creative Writing at UNC Greensboro. But I had no job prospects. I’d had a job lined up for me […]

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Shortcut to: Drewspace Archive ==>
Or see the list of all months on it here.
For several years (starting in 2000!), I kept an old-school Blogger blog where I used to work. Because I haven’t had an ftp login for that account for a long time, I wasn’t able to import the entries into WordPress […]

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Today in Douglas Rushkoff’s weblog, there’s a post about AOL & Time Warner, and how so many “experts” still don’t get it. “It” being what AOL and the Internet actually mean to one another.

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