Hi, I’m Matt Balara.I solve design problems with my head.

I’ve read Andy Rutledge’s blog as long as it’s been around, and his articles have never failed to be opinionated, structured, intelligent and useful. Now he’s got a podcast called The Design View Show and I can wholeheartedly recommend it for…

Although Noam Cohen doesn’t seem to understand how Tumblr and Twitter differ, he’s written an interesting article for the New York Times about the social effects of being constantly, but lightly, in touch with hundreds. And he quotes all—round smart Aussie…

While still working on a coherent review of the Future of Web Design conference I attended in New York, I’ve distracted myself by setting up a Tumblr account. Ryan form 37signals and I had a long chat about it, and…

Brooklyn

• Amity St. brownstone steps strewn in cotton webs and piles of pumpkins, slowly collapsing in on themselves with a grin.
• Degraw St.: tandem bike rolls past, bear of a dad up front with a face-painted tiger girl on the mini-bike in…

I started using Newshutch as my feed reader when it launched back at the start of 2006 because I was sick of how ugly and clumsy Bloglines was (and still is). Other than a few early days problems with slowness,…