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

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,…

In two days I’ll be flying to New York, to visit friends and family and take part in the Future of Web Design conference. If you’re an English speaker and avid reader living in Germany, one of the first things…