For this week’s LSB, we decided to interview ourselves. Cam also ordered an extra crate <a> link tags from our local tag supplier and had hundreds of leftover <a>’s (and a few extra <img>s) piling up in corners, spewing out of our pockets and cluttering our desks making it hard to work, so we thought we’d unload some of those this week. Rather than taking in our unused link tags into the depot for a few cents per unit or let the expiration date come and go, why not share some with our friends?
Originally thought of an exercise in talking about productivity, we eventually decided that we’d talk about all aspects on living and working on the web (and some other stuff, too). Go figure. Anyway, you get a ton of links for free.
We mention a lot of places online in this podcast, so without further adieu here’s a run down of all our favourite things organized by person:
Andrea
One site I visit every day without fail: IXDA discussion list, Delicious and The New York Times
One site I think needs a serious re-design: Vancouver Public Library
One site I think is very well designed is: Word of Warcraft Armory
My online guilty pleasure is: Perez Hilton
One site that has improved my productivity or workflow is: Basecamp, ProjectPier and Fireburg
One site that has destroyed my productivity or workflow is: Facebook and YouTube
One person I recommend to follow on Twitter is: Gong Szeto
One site I used to follow is: k10k (and by the way, it’s .net, not .org)
My favourite blog is: Design With Intent
My favourite internet personality is: Ze Frank
One thing that has gone viral that I still think is absolutely hilarious: LOL cats
My favourite social networks are: Twitter and Delicious
My favourite social networking tool is: Tweetie, TweetDeck and Spaz
My favourite design-related sites are: Core77 and Johnny Holland
My favourite web development-related site is: Stack Overflow, or Drupal and WordPress Codex
My favourite piece of software is: Linux
My favourite piece of hardware is: my laptop
My favourite web app or web technology is: Apache
One technology that I’d love to sink my teeh into but haven’t yet is: mobile apps (especially for location-based and alternate-relaity gaming)
The one site I’d like to give some props is: Development Seed
My favourite font is: Verlag
My favourite colour is: orange
The year I first went online is: 1984 or 1985
The first thing I did online was: something with Gopher, reading news or something
The one essential non-techy item that helps my productivity is: coffee
Cam
One site I visit every day without fail: The New York Times
One site I think needs a serious re-design: TransLink
One site I think is very well designed is: Tilt Design Studio
My online guilty pleasure is: Perez Hilton
One site that has improved my productivity or workflow is: Lift Studios Wiki (Sorry, we can’t share everything.)
One site that has destroyed my productivity or workflow is: Vice and VBS.tv
One person I recommend to follow on Twitter is: Questlove
One site I kind of miss is: Yahoo! Homepages circa a bunch of years ago
My favourite blog is: NotCot
My favourite internet personality is: Perez Hilton
One thing that’s gone viral that I still think is absolutely hilarious is: Demetri Martin
My favourite social network is: Twitter
My favourite social networking tool is: Twitterific
My favourite design-related site is: NotCot
My favourite web development-related sites are: Drupal and WordPress
My favourite piece of software is: Flash
My favourite piece of hardware is: my laptop
My favourite web app or web technology is: Flash
One technology that I’d love to sink my teeh into but haven’t yet is: Flex
The one site I’d like to give some props is: Craigslist
My favourite font is: Univers (sans-serif) and Lubalin Graph (serif)
My favourite colour is: black
The year I first went online is: 1995 or 1996
The first thing I did online was: linked two computers together to play Duke Nukem with friends
The one essential non-techy item that helps my productivity is: a sketchbook and a pen
Frederick
One site I visit every day without fail: GMail
One site I think needs a serious re-design: TransLink
One site I think is very well designed is: It’s Nice That
My online guilty pleasure is: Very censored.
One site that has improved my productivity or workflow is: W3C Validator
One site that has destroyed my productivity or workflow is: YouTube
One person I recommend to follow on Twitter is: Nice Web Type
Frederick doesn’t miss about the web back in tha day.
My favourite blog is: Mind Hacks
Frederick can’t even think of an internet personality.
One thing that has gone viral that I still think is absolutely hilarious: Halt! Hammerzeit.
My favourite social network is: MySpace
My favourite design-related site is: Google images
My favourite web development-related site is: Google, again
My favourite piece of software is: Reason
My favourite piece of hardware is: my filter bank
My favourite web app or web technology is: email
One technology that I’d love to sink my teeh into but haven’t yet is: iPhone and mobile apps
The one site I’d like to give some props is: Ted
Frederick doesn’t have a favourtite and is really boring when it comes to favourite questions. And his favourite colour is grey.
The year I first went online is: 1988
The first thing I did online was: hooked into his school’s bulletin board and played video games with friends
The one essential non-techy item that helps my productivity is: paper and some pens
Haig
One thing I do online every day: watch a Ted Talk
One site I think needs a serious re-design: Drupal
One site I think is very well designed is: Yugop’s Nagaoka Institute of Design Gallery Collection
My online guilty pleasure is: VBS.tv
One site that has improved my productivity or workflow is: Things
One site that has destroyed my productivity or workflow is: VBS.tv
One person I recommend to follow on Twitter is: L316H
One site I miss is: CBC Radio3 online magazine
My favourite blog is: Guerrilla Innovation
Haig doesn’t have a favourite internet personality.
One thing that’s gone viral that I still think is absolutely hilarious is: Dan Deacon and Liam Lynch’s Drinking Out of Cups.
My favourite social network is: Delicous
My favourite social networking tool is: Twitterific
My favourite design-related site is: Smashing Magazine
My favourite web development-related site is: Peep Code
My favourite piece of software is: TextMate
My favourite piece of hardware is: my Stratocaster
My favourite web app or web technology is: Ruby on Rails
One technology that I’d love to sink my teeh into but haven’t yet is: Django (Sorry, we got the URL wrong on the video.)
The one site I’d like to give some props is: Pixton
My favourite font is: Aksidenz Grotesk
My favourite colour is: sky blue
The year I first went online is: 1993
The first thing I did online was: talked to a concert promoter in Montreal using IRC
The one essential non-techy item that helps my productivity is: walking
Travis
One site I visit every day without fail is: Quipsologies
One site I think needs a serious re-design is: Brock University
One site I think is very well designed is: Interpol (not Interpol)
My online guilty pleasure is: Facebook
One site that has improved my productivity or workflow is: Google
One site that has destroyed my productivity or workflow is: Wikipedia
One person I recommend to follow on Twitter is: Fireland
One site I used to visit a lot back in tha day is: Exploding Dog
My favourite blog is: 1001 Rules for my Unborn Son
My favourite internet personality is: Merlin Mann
One thing that has gone viral that I still think is absolutely hilarious: Hey Ya! Charlie Brown
My favourite social network is: flickr
My favourite social networking tool is: TweetDeck (or booze)
My favourite design-related site is: Quipsologies
My favourite web development-related site is: WordPress
My favourite piece of software is: InDesign or PhotoShop
My favourite piece of hardware is: my old iBook G4
My favourite web apps or web technologies are: BitTorrent and Google Maps
One technology that I’d love to sink my teeh into but haven’t yet is: Air, or lasers
The one site I’d like to give some props is: Print Liberation
My favourite font is: German Blackletter, circa 1600
My favourite colour is: bright orange
The year I first went online was: 1999
The first thing I did online was: go to the Seattle SuperSonics website
The one essential non-techy item that helps my productivity is: coffee