John Gruber (DaringFireball.net) & Merlin Mann (43Folders.com) presented at South by Southwest Interactive on Saturday, March 14th. They talked about building a blog you can be proud of, improving the quality of your work, reaching people you admire, and maybe even making a buck in a way that doesn’t blow your deal.
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Gruber & Mann - HOWTO: 149 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Blog With Credibility!
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MPU 023: Workflows with Merlin Mann
In our first “Workflows” episode we talk with Merlin Mann, or as David calls him, the “Hero of Nerds.” Merlin discussed how he uses his Mac for his work and the applications he uses to be more productive. This extra long episode is packed with geeky goodness.
From http://macpowerusers.com/2010/03/mpu-023-workflows-with-merlin-mann/
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Workflows with Merlin Mann II - Mac Power User
David and Katie sit down again with Merlin Mann. Merlin updates us on his workflows and his latest projects.
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Merlin Mann: Productivity Demiurge (or) My Job Isn’t Abusive, I Just Ran Into The Door
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Kerning, Orgasms And Those Goddamned Japanese Toothpicks
Freud popularised the term, “The Narcissism of Minor Differences”, to describe how adjacent villages—identical for all practical purposes—would struggle to amplify their tiniest distinctions in order to justify how much they despised one other. So you have to guess how much he would have enjoyed design mailing lists. And, Perl.
Truth is, to the untrained (un-washed, un-nuanced, un-Paul-Rand’d, and un-Helvetica’d) outsider, discourse in the design community can sometimes look a lot like a cluster of tightly-wound Freudian villages.
So, how is the role of design perceived by the people who are using the stuff you make? What role (if any) should users expect in the process of how their world is made and remade? What contexts might be useful in helping us turn all of our obsessions into useful and beautiful work?
Can an Aeron chair ever be truly ‘Black’? Will there ever be a way to get Marketing people to stop calling typefaces ‘fonts’? And, when, at last, will the international community finally speak as one regarding the overuse of Mistral and stock photos of foreshortened Asian women?
By leveraging his uniquely unqualified understanding of design, Merlin will propose some promising patterns for fording the gap between end-users and the unhappy-looking people in costly European eyeglasses who are designing their world.
Is there hope? Come to Brighton, pull up a flawlessly-executed mid-century-Modern seating affordance, and we’ll see what we can figure out together. One village to another.
http://2010.dconstruct.org/speakers/merlin-mann
Merlin Mann is best known as the creator of 43folders.com, a popular American website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.