Last week, WDG opened our new Clarendon office to a packed audience for Refresh DC. We were thrilled to have Maxim Leyzerovich, Senior Experience Lead at Capital One, discussing “The UI of AI.” With years of UX design experience, Leyzerovich is known for his deep insights about the intersection of design and technology.

I couldn’t make last week’s Refresh DC meetup, but I’m grateful for the hard work my fellow organizers put into the event, to Maxim for speaking, and to the folks at WDG for hosting and putting together this great recap!

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, or help work on a project.

After a brief hiatus, Homebrew Website Club returns to LivingSocial next week. Come on by, share what you’re doing with your personal website, and learn about what others are doing with theirs.

Nick Whitmoyer, one of my fellow Refresh DC organizers, gives this great rundown of what it takes to run a community event.

1. Set realistic time limits
2. Find the right crew
3. Get the most out of it
4. Stay focused
5. Keep it simple
6. Ask for help
7. Most importantly, follow up

This is great advice. Timely, too! Next week, we celebrate Refresh DC’s tenth anniversary.

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, or help work on a project.

We’ll be back at LivingSocial this week for another edition of Homebrew Website Club. Come on by, share what you’re doing with your personal website, and learn about what others are doing with theirs.

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, or help work on a project.

Next week’s Homebrew Website Club will be downtown at LivingSocial’s offices near the White House! Come by, share what you’re working on, and hack away at your personal website.

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, or help work on a project.

I’m organizing the first of what I hope to be many Homebrew Website Club meetups here in DC. I want to encourage anyone interested in building their own website to attend, regardless of skill level.

Hope to see you out at Busboys and Poets next Wednesday night!

Dean Allen’s response to Jeffrey Zeldman on the closing of Favrd:

“I started Favrd solely to furnish me with something amusing to read while waiting in line at the supermarket, calm in the assurance that in doing so I’d never ever see Pete Cashmore’s stupid douchey face or read his stupid douchey toots.”

We’re done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.

It’s one of the most important concepts on the web today—perhaps the most important for social media—but it’s one of the least understood. When James Surowiecki wrote The Wisdom of Crowds in 2004, he explored the stock market and other classic social psychology examples, but “web 2.0” was still nascent. It’s time to connect his ideas to the social web, where they can reach their full potential.