One year ago this week, the first episode of Roderick on the Line went up. To commemorate the occasion, I wanted to share a little bit of history with you, as well as just say, “thanks.”
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Ep. 46 Special: Origin of Roderick on the Line - Roderick on the Line
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5by5 | 5by5 Specials #4: Kindacritical
5by5 - 5by5 Specials #4: Kindacritical
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The Pipeline #7: Merlin Mann - 5by5
The Pipeline #7: Merlin Mann - 5by5
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“Back to Work…After Dark” - Chutes and Ladders. BOOM! (ep. 7)
What Dan and Merlin said after we hit “STOP” on Back to Work, Episode 7, "Vocational Wheel"
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The Conversation: Episode 6: Ad Block This! (Part 2 of 2)
Dan talks with Merlin Mann, Jane Quigley, and Mike Davidson about monetizing the web, generalized blogs vs. niche blogs, filters, and actually caring about your audience. This is Part 2 of a two-part episode.
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The Conversation: Episode 5: Ad Block This! (Part 1 of 2)
Dan talks with Ken Fisher, founder of Ars Technica, Jane Quigley of Powered, Matt Haughey of MetaFilter, and Merlin Mann about ads, ad-blockers, running websites, and preserving your integrity. This is Part 1 of a two-part episode.
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Merlin’s interview with John Hodgman
In his role on “The Daily Show,” Hodgman has offered insight and commentary on art authentication, presidential candidate style, hurricane season and mixed martial arts. Hodgman’s latest book, More Information Than You Require, deals with more of the esoteric, charming and just plain eccentric topics that catch the author’s fancy. John Hodgman appeared in conversation with Merlin Mann on November 7, 2009.
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Merlin’s Detailed Workflow on “Mac Power Users” Podcast
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Merlin Mann - Kerning, Orgasms & 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.
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