[What I'm Reading] The Long Weekend Edition
This Memorial Day weekend I was able to catch up on my reading, thus the long list of article. Hope you enjoy.
# Inspiration
- Putting today into perspective (opens new window)
- TED: Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end of life (opens new window)
- ‘The enemy of clarity’ (opens new window)
- Artifact Conf: Dan Mall on Tools (opens new window)
- Building Self-Awareness Through Another Person’s Eyes (opens new window)
# Web Development
- Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript (opens new window)
- Even Better In-Browser Mockups with Node.js (opens new window)
- HTML5 Dev Conf Videos (opens new window)
- McGrane: Kill Your CMS (opens new window)
- HTML Emails (opens new window)
- Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier (opens new window)
- Replacing images when printing (opens new window)
- Designing for Thumb Flow (opens new window)
- HighEdWebTech - Adventures in Unsubscribing (opens new window)
# Web Tools
- How we are improving for search engines and social sites (opens new window)
- TextScrub Removes Unwanted Formatting from Your Clipboard (opens new window)
# Leadership
- Two goals of giving feedback (opens new window)
- Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: You Can’t Do Everything (opens new window)
- 3 Rules high achievers never break (opens new window)
- How To Treat Your Intern – An Intern’s Opinion (opens new window)
- what funding actually gets you (opens new window)
- When Slow Corporations Take Over Swift Startups (opens new window)
- My Natural Next Step: Becoming a Coach (opens new window)
- Why You Should Hire a VP of User Experience Design (opens new window)
- Committing to a cycle of honest communication (opens new window)
- You play like you practice (opens new window)
# Writing
- Do Users Care About Your Latest News? (opens new window)
- Writing tip: say it backwards (opens new window)
- 3 Important Lessons That Writers MUST Learn From Marketers (opens new window)
# Detroit
# Higher Education
- mStoner blog - The Art and Science of a Hashtag Strategy (opens new window)
- Friday Five: Quotables of the week (opens new window)
- HigherEd Live - High Ed Web Michigan Recap (opens new window)
- mStoner blog - Measuring Success for a .edu Relaunch (opens new window)
- Commonly Confused Graphic Design and Web Design Terms and Concepts (opens new window)
# User Experience
- 60 Minutes of Luke (opens new window)
- New Layouts for the Multi-Device Web (opens new window)
- mStoner blog - How to build better major and degree pages (opens new window)
- Quickbooks is the old standard (opens new window)
- Building a Better User Experience by Designing in the Browser (opens new window)