David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Social Media and Freedom: A Promise Betrayed
Facebook and Twitter are now fueling hatred, conflict, repression, and in some cases - genocide. Where do we go from here? "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true/Or is it something worse?" Bruce Springsteen, "The River" Back in 2011, I traveled to Ethiopia for the...
Anthony Bourdain
Like many journalists turned multimedia world travelers, I envied Anthony Bourdain. It seemed like he had the greatest job in the world. Travel to amazing places, hang out with the smartest, most interesting people around, eat delicious, innovative food, and get paid...
Tech Writing in the Voice of an Erudite 19th Century Gentleman
If we're going to have to suffer through endless TOS statements, they might as well be fun to read I seem to have struck some kind of nerve this week in responding to a whimsical Tweet referencing something that we are all guilty of - losing focus while slogging...
CSS 4: the Web Design Standard that Doesn’t Exist. Only It Does. Confused Yet?
Yesterday, upon the stair/ I saw a web design standard that was not there/ It was not there again today/ Gee, I wish it'd go away... Years ago, I helped the lovely & brilliant Janine Warner create books, classes and training videos about web design. This was like...
Uncovering Ad Fraud at Financial Times: $1.3 Million PER MONTH
Investigation reveals "organized crime" at one paper - how many more are undiscovered? I know that I sound like a broken record on this subject, but for God's sake, it's been 3 years now since pretty much everybody in the digital ad industry acknowledged that there...
Shwedagon Pagoda and Dave by Night
As with so many major cities in Asia, the ancient and the modern exist side-by-side.