2 place

The Scroll Number 2 cover.

Wel­come to Scroll Num­ber 2: place. That tiny telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions device we carry with us every­where can now tell us not just where we are accord­ing to a set of coor­di­nates, but also how to get to where we want to go, what’s near us, and some­times even what hap­pened here before. But where are we really? Some­times, with all that infor­ma­tion, you’d be for­given for being a bit over­whelmed. Have you found your place here yet?

  1. Keeping your place

    Written by Cameron Adams.

    Cameron Adams

    What hap­pened to your pas­sion for the web? It can be hard to stay excited when you get bogged down in the minu­tiae of RFPs and invoic­ing clients. It’s time to get your mojo back.

  2. It’s time for content strategy

    Written by Melissa Rach.

    Melissa Rach

    As a web pro­fes­sional you are in the right place to become a con­tent strate­gist. And now is the right time to do it.

  3. Yiying Lu

    Written by John Allsopp.

    John Allsopp

    John All­sopp finds out what makes the cre­ator of Twitter’s iconic Fail Whale tick.

  4. Disrupting the conceptual metaphors of the web

    Written by Jeremy Keith.

    Jeremy Keith

    We’ve devel­oped an array of metaphors for talk­ing about the intan­gi­ble spaces of the web. Maybe it’s time to unshackle our­selves from some of them.

  5. Twitterville

    Written by Sebastian Strakowicz.

    Sebastian Strakowicz

    Twit­ter­ville — a place where our deep­est, uncon­scious and inti­mate desires are shared amongst ourselves.

  6. One web and universal access: a bridge too far?

    Written by Henny Swan.

    Henny Swan

    Can the idea of uni­ver­sal access really meet the needs of users with dis­abil­i­ties brows­ing on mobile and hand-​​held devices or is this just wish­ful thinking?

  7. Maps and macroscopes

    Written by Matt Webb.

    Matt Webb

    Macro­scopes give us a kind of super­power: an abil­ity to feel the human scale and the grand view all at once.

  8. What Africa can teach us about place

    Written by Erik Hersman.

    Erik Hersman

    What’s going to hap­pen when the bar­ri­ers, access and abil­ity to sift infor­ma­tion are equal for every indi­vid­ual around the world?

  9. Unlocking the power of place

    Written by Rachel Hinman.

    Rachel Hinman

    The web is great at things, and not bad at peo­ple. But place has been its Achilles heel. How­ever there’s move­ment afoot and human expres­sions of place on the web are becom­ing possible.

  10. Home is where 127.0.0.1 is

    Written by Faruk Ateş.

    Faruk Ateş

    If your com­puter is your home, geolo­ca­tion is set to remind you that there’s a whole world out there.