Author / Emily Chang
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Tag This
Yesterday I wrote about the need for more integrated tools to organize the various bits of information that we need, use, and collect in our daily digital lives, both online and offline,…
September 6, 2005 -
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EmilyChang.com Launches
Emily Chang launches her namesake domain after many years of blogging and artmaking under the pseudonym artcodes (1996 – present). Emily will shift her writing about web and interactive design, technology trends…
September 4, 2005 -
Social Design Opens Wide
It seems that every week there’s a new web application or service that allows you to organize another facet of your life online – then share it. Whether it’s collecting bookmarks or…
September 4, 2005 -
EmilyChang.com Launches
I’ve been keeping my life online at artcodes.com for a long time now, but I’ve decided to return artcodes to its roots as a place for my art experiments and personal life.…
September 4, 2005 -
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Crisis in New Orleans
Here you are, like me, online. Probably in the comfort of your own environment, listening to your favorite music, a warm summer night – surfing the web. Everything’s normal. But no farther…
September 1, 2005 -
082905
“Geeking is not about high tech. It’s about taking stuff apart and putting https://theathleteprogram.com/buy-cheap-valium-online/ it together and making something new. It’s about curiosity and tinkering, whether it be with gardens, vacuum tubes…
August 29, 2005 -
Besuku ajax flickr gallery
It’s late Saturday night (okay, it’s Sunday morning… I’m in denial) and I’ve been experimenting with various image galleries. Tonight’s new find is the Besuku ajax flickr gallery, a very elegant image…
August 28, 2005 -
Jalenack’s Ajax Periodic Table of Elements
I’ve been wanting a new way to have a grid of thumbnails that pop-up larger images. While I like the functionality of my blog photo gallery, it’s not as seamless to click…
August 27, 2005 -
Emily Chang and Movable Type 3.2
Movable Type 3.2 launches with loads of new features, including Vicksburg, a unified CSS design template by Six Apart designer Walt Dickinson. Emily Chang designs three of the theme color palettes (Desert,…
August 26, 2005 -
Virtual plazes become real
The web has always attracted me because of the play between what’s real, virtual, and how one can become the other fairly easily. While others have framed this much more eloquently than…
August 26, 2005 -
Wiki from Adaptive Path’s Ajax User Experience Week
If you’re interested in gaining further insight into the many facets of Ajax (see my post about Ajax from Feb 05), there’s a wiki with conference notes and perspective from Adaptive Path‘s…
August 26, 2005 -
Design something original
Princeton Technology has created a hard drive that’s “inspired by” the Mac Mini, so much so that it really looks just like it other than the logo etched on the top and…
August 25, 2005 -
Movable Type 3.2 Released
Movable Type 3.2 was released this morning by the team at Six Apart. The new release has a wealth of features designed to make blogging even easier and smarter. Max and I…
August 25, 2005 -
Coolpix sky
Here’s the first 7.1 megapixel photo I’ve ever taken. The first of many photos to come with my new Nikon Coolpix 7900 camera. Max and I have been using a Coolpix 4500…
August 24, 2005 -
Texture Wall
Two photos of different parts of the same wall. Love the subtle details. Shot on Harrison St, SF.
August 23, 2005 -
Wikipedia for all
One of my all-time favorite websites is the wikipedia – partly because I’ve used it for many years to look up terms, concepts, historical facts; also because I like to link to…
August 23, 2005 -
Symbols and Synchronicity
I mentioned how I like it when synchronicities pop up at different times in an earlier post last week, but I have to mention another odd coincidence because 1) it’s cool and…
August 21, 2005 -
Pingoat rocks
I’ve been looking at ways to increase blog traffic and I’ll be posting more about the services and various techniques I’m using, but for now, you’ve got to try pingoat, a great…
August 21, 2005 -
Plazes location mapping
Twenty-four hours ago, I was playing with IndyJunior and wishing I could add more real-time data to the map or share the data with someone in more ways than just a hover…
August 20, 2005 -
Web Mapping Technology
I was searching to see if anyone had released some Ajax-driven maps and came across “Build AJAX-Based Web Maps Using ka-Map” by Tyler Mitchell which led me to an open source map…
August 19, 2005 -
XML and Flash Map of My Travels
I found Bryan Boyer’s IndyJunior several years ago when it was still v1.3 and played with it back then. For some reason, it popped into my head again the other day so…
August 19, 2005 -
Hacker Ethic
“In general I have a hacker ethic regarding my work: I don’t really want my job to be neatly divisible from my life. The concepts and ideas that I bring to both…
August 17, 2005 -
Open source
MIT Technology Review has a story, The Tech Boom 2.0, that covers a point of view that I couldn’t agree with more. I often use open-source software to develop high-end, robust, and…
August 16, 2005 -
Blog comments on
I’ve resisted turning comments on in my blog for some time. It’s not that I haven’t wanted feedback from you or to know what you think. It probably has more to do…
August 16, 2005 -
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One Year Later
Tonight marks the one year anniversary of moving here to SF and finding ourselves right where we want to be – in the heart of the web world with our own selected…
August 13, 2005