Notices by zeldman (zeldman@front-end.social)

Congratulations to The New Museum, Athletics, and WordPress VIP on the all-new a full-site front- and backend redesign over a year in the making.

The site:
https://newmuseum.org/

Case study:
https://athleticsnyc.com/work/new-museum

“On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.”

https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny #HistoryRepeats #democracy #usa #election2024

The horror.

Given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic. Here’s why.

https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

“Like watching Norman Bates talk to his mother.”

Even George F. Will is hoping for a Kamala victory. George Effin’ Will, for pity’s sake. What does that tell you?

Fun! Why must a blog comment be text? Why could it not be… a drawing? Now it *can* be. Brilliant work by Dan Q.

https://danq.me/2024/08/15/draw-me-a-comment/

★ Designers, writers, editors, artists: explore millions of images from the Smithsonian’s collections, all released into public domain as Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Use, transform, and share without asking permission, even on commercial projects.

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

With Decentralized I.D., you own and control your identity without intermediaries, ensuring data is not stored in a single central location, reducing the risks of breaches. Learn more about decentralized identity management here:

https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/07/29/decentralized-identity-management/ 

#decentralized #federated #DataPrivacy #Security #Gravatar

✩ Alex Kirk: Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance

https://alex.kirk.at/2024/06/13/your-wordpress-as-your-personal-mastodon-instance/ #fediverse

A full season of me time.

https://zeldman.com/2024/05/28/the-gift-of-a-three-month-sabbatical/

What to make of it? Jack Dorsey left BlueSky’s board, closed his user account, and is back on Twitter, praising it as “freedom technology” under Elon’s misrule.

“What have we done?”

https://apnews.com/live/trump-trial-updates-day-10#0000018f-39d9-df94-afff-7fd9958d0000

Why search engines now prioritize advertising over good UX: In the dying stages of innovation, companies at the top of the heap use their market power to maintain their high profits.

https://zeldman.com/2024/04/24/suckage-begins-here-why-search-engines-now-prioritize-advertising-over-good-ux/

This Web of Ours, Revisited

Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?

https://zeldman.com/2024/04/19/this-web-of-ours-revisited/

If you thought the guestbook spam of yore was impressive, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The new, AI-assisted comment spam has improved keyword stuffing, fewer grammatical mistakes, and, best of all, there’s tons more of it. Your website’s Comments section was never so useless!

https://zeldman.com/2024/04/09/akismet-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/

More than half of all women and nearly one-third of all men in America have experienced sexual violence. The rate of sexual violence is even higher for people of color. 

Tonight in #nyc, the Empire State Building’s tower lights will shine teal and green to honor Sexual Assault Awareness Month and season 25 of “Law & Order: SVU.”

https://www.esbnyc.com/blog/mariska-hargitay-lights-esb-sexual-assault-awareness-month

“Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug… Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product.” @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi #enshittification

These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021

Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including AT&T, Comcast, Walmart, and Microsoft.

https://popular.info/p/these-50-companies-have-donated-over

Mary L. Trump explains why today was actually a bad day for Donald—and how it increases the likelihood of his being a convicted criminal well before Election Day.

https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/now-judge-shuts-down-donalds-lawyers?r=ejkct