I'm currently in Toronto at the Mesh conference taking place at the MaRS centre on College Street. Today was the MeshU day of workshops, including great presentations by John Lax, Leah Culver, Ryan Carson, John Resig, and a bunch of others. I presented in the morning and promised that I'd stick my …

As I've talked about at a few conferences recently, one of the exciting/difficult things about working in-house, on a project with the scope of something like Digg, is the luxury/challenge to adapt your own work. The comments system on Digg is a perfect example. Just this past week, we rolled out …

 •  Here's an annoyingly unhelpful teaser of a new Pownce-related thing I've been working on with a few friends lately. It's the first piece of really original design I've done in a while, which has been refreshing. After working on iterating and refining the same two projects (Digg + Pownce) for …

Joshua Porter, aka Bokardo, has just announced the publication of his book Designing for the Social Web. I finally met Josh in person at SXSW when we were speaking on a panel together about this very subject. He's obviously got fantastic insight into the subject of design for social sites and it …

Why not come back from a months-long writing hiatus with a somewhat off-the-cuff rant that's been building for just about as long as I've been away from posting on my weblog?  •  I've been going through dozens of applications for design positions over the past few months as we hire at Digg. I've …