Kripy http://kripy.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:41:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Too Hard Basket http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/ahxhERffGkA/ http://kripy.com/2012/02/06/too-hard-basket/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:41:36 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=953 Continue reading →]]> This is my site. I choose not to have comments. I recognise that sometimes people feel the need to respond to what I write here, and I love that. Please do it on your own site. Or Twitter. Or Facebook. Or Google+. Or send me an email (actually, please don’t do that). Or any of the other hundred+ ways to communicate on the Internet.
It’s the getting of your own site that’s the deal breaker here. Which is why the larger platforms are winning out and the web seemingly being enveloped into the Twitter / Facebook / Google black hole.]]> http://kripy.com/2012/02/06/too-hard-basket/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/02/06/too-hard-basket/ Nine Times http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/eWIughq1THE/ http://kripy.com/2012/02/06/nine-times/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:24:51 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=949 Continue reading →]]> Reblogging, on Tumblr, is so easy that the vast majority of Tumblr sites actually create little or no original content: they just republish content from other people. That’s a wonderful thing, for two reasons. Firstly, it takes people who are shy about (or just not very good at) creating their own content, and gives them a great way to express themselves online. (As Arianna Huffington says, “self-expression is the new entertainment”.) And secondly, it acts as a natural amplifier for the people who do create original content – the average post on Tumblr gets reblogged nine times, and therefore reaches vastly more people than if it just sat on its original site waiting to be discovered by people visiting it directly.
There’s been a bit of chatter over the past few days about the death of the common web and the changing face of the ecosystem we call Internet. It’s all about fishing where the fish are. And unless you’ve built up a following over the last decade or have a bundle of startup cash (although that even isn’t a gaurantee these days) maybe it’s better to start on a platform that already has a large pond. As ugly as that might be.]]> http://kripy.com/2012/02/06/nine-times/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/02/06/nine-times/ No Pixel Unturned http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/JRVl5SYmnAU/ http://kripy.com/2012/02/06/no-pixel-unturned/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:04:59 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=946 Continue reading →]]> Products like these are savvy enough to allow sufficient room for a user to live within them, to flex his or her muscles and breathe freely within the product’s architecture. They’re also the result of considerable iteration and improvisation, and sometimes they show that fact almost baldly in their patchwork agglomeration of mismatched features. No one would call them beautiful but they work phenomenally well and users love them.
And that’s all you really need.]]> http://kripy.com/2012/02/06/no-pixel-unturned/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/02/06/no-pixel-unturned/ This Is It http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/35ZaXY_QqzQ/ http://kripy.com/2012/01/31/this-is-it/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:55:35 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=944 Continue reading →]]> “And that’s it. It’s the five basic units that blogs were built on, distilled to their essence. And titles and comments are important, but Jason’s done without them both. They’re paratext. The real core is link, pull, response.”]]> http://kripy.com/2012/01/31/this-is-it/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/01/31/this-is-it/ Beare Park http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/fAGvVY0hFEo/ http://kripy.com/2012/01/31/beare-park/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:50:15 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=929 Betty ShadeSnagsMackerel ShadeLog TownMeat BoardTwin TowersMoon]]> http://kripy.com/2012/01/31/beare-park/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/01/31/beare-park/ Thanks For The Shoulders http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/3EtJlTs8yUw/ http://kripy.com/2012/01/27/thanks-for-the-shoulders/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:45:27 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=924 Continue reading →]]> Stephen Hargrove:
Along the way, I looked to Daring Fireball, Marco.org, and inessential.com for design and “how the hell do I do this” inspiration and instruction. Standing on the shoulders of giants, if you will.

I like the idea of “standing on the shoulders of giants” – wish I’d made that call – especially when it comes to embracing the quote and referral. John Gruber, Marco Arment, and Brent Simmons have definitely set a standard. I’m also leaning on Jason Kottke and Dan Frommer’s SplatF.

What I like about Frommer’s approach is how he’s used coloured headers to visually delineate “link posts” from his longer pieces of writing. In a way, the shorter hits are the Daring Fireball approach: grep article, process, agree and / or send them to the cleaners. But there needs to be commentary. Kottke uses the same method but the difference here, besides Gruber’s dogmatic verbals, is their linking methodology. Gruber (and Frommer in his shorter posts) link out, while Kottke links in. It really doesn’t matter to me that much but it has got me thinking. Only time (and my designer) will tell.]]> http://kripy.com/2012/01/27/thanks-for-the-shoulders/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/01/27/thanks-for-the-shoulders/ Muhammad Ali http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/G3RMORvP32A/ http://kripy.com/2012/01/25/muhammad-ali/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:49:18 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=920 ]]> http://kripy.com/2012/01/25/muhammad-ali/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/01/25/muhammad-ali/ Cold Rocking http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/yfNtswnVSlM/ http://kripy.com/2012/01/24/cold-rocking/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:54:57 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=917 ]]> http://kripy.com/2012/01/24/cold-rocking/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/01/24/cold-rocking/ Integrate This: The Predictive Text Edition http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/ptQkulREPds/ http://kripy.com/2012/01/24/integrate-this-the-predictive-text-edition/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:39:05 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=913 Continue reading →]]> The Economist

Wax on, wax off, comments on, comments off – Matt Gemmell

Matt Mullenweg fights for your right to publish independently – GigaOM

“You have to have skin in the game…” – Rolling Stone

Scene from a Toco Bell drive-thru – BusinessWeek

The Never-Betters, the Better-Nevers, and the Ever-Wasers are not characters out of a Dr Seuss book – The New Yorker

T La Rock was Def Jam’s first rapper, until he forgot – Grantland

Matterhorn is what happens when you take to drawing in old coffee shops in Tokyo – Nieves]]> http://kripy.com/2012/01/24/integrate-this-the-predictive-text-edition/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/01/24/integrate-this-the-predictive-text-edition/ Natas Kaupas Venice http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kripy/~3/Z5UJsO4y07w/ http://kripy.com/2012/01/23/natas-kaupas-venice/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:11:39 +0000 Arturo http://kripy.com/?p=910 ]]> http://kripy.com/2012/01/23/natas-kaupas-venice/feed/ 0 http://kripy.com/2012/01/23/natas-kaupas-venice/