Fungible Convictions

McSweeney’s: “A Mother’s Plea”

McSweeney’s: “LISTMANIA!: OTHER BOOKS USEFUL (OR NOT) FOR AMERICANS TO READ, BEYOND WILLIAM BLUM’S ROGUE STATE, BY OSAMA B-L.”

Matt Webb’s Interconnected: “I Am Genmon”

Phil Renaud: The five most useful books on my bookshelf

Mark Boulton: “Five Simple Steps to Typesetting on the web: The Right Glyph for the Job”

Salon: “I Like to Watch”

A List Apart (from last week): “Web 3.0″

Post Road: “Pig Boy’s Wicked Bird”

2006 Weblog Award Nominees

Tin House: Issue #26 is out

I still love what designer Matt Webb does with his blog Interconnected. Well, “still.” I want to pretend I’ve known about it for years, but really I found it only a month or two ago when I started assembling my first del.icio.us set.

Interconnected shows what good content chunking can do—content chunking being when you brainstorm every conceivable potential piece of content and decide, pre-design, what should be near what. Who knows if Webb actually did that. But the arrangement of content and functionality—like grouping archives and search functionality at the very bottom, out of the way of what’s important day-to-day—shows that he’s at the very least terribly conscious of how his particular blog can work best.