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Art in the Interface
Tonight my mom called me up and asked me to tell her what I meant by "interface." She explained to me that I need to remember that "there are regular people reading your page" and proceeded to call me a geek (can you believe it?). Anyway, after expla
August 5, 2005 |
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Determining Musical Tastes
I wrote four questions on August 4, 2004 and then saved this as a draft. Just rediscovered it and added a fifth question. What's in your CD player right now? Prince, Elton John or Madonna? 80's synths or
August 25, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Schools vs. The Web
[My mother sent this to me in an email and I thought I might post it and open up the question to everyone. So read it, think about and leave some comments.] By Barbara Rubin Brier Trying to follow your thinking on web-related develop
August 10, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
Knowledgeable Poop
I was doing some copywriting work today and I headed over to Thesaurus.com to look up synonyms for the word knowledge. This is the list that it returned: ability
August 18, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
The Big Idea of Growing Ideas
As I was writing and updating yesterday's post on the two new del.icio.us features, I started to think seriously about this idea of creating a social networking site from the
August 16, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Thinking Differently
A while back (about 6 months ago) I wrote about the verifier approach. As I explained then, "Essentially the approach is a three-part process that can be used in nearly any f
August 26, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Modern Day Huey Lewis?
Over at SimpleBits, Dan Cedarholm posed a daunting question as part of a contest to win a CSS geek's dream pack including <a href="http:/
August 12, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Looking Past the Interface
I've now written and deleted the start to this entry about ten times (I know it's cliched to start that way, but whatevs). I'm trying to write about the <a href="
August 4, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
1.5 Google Lifehacks
I discovered two cool Google things today. 1. When I went to download the new version of Adium (the spectacular free OS X IM client). I could remember the address so I went for a quick Google search. The site tu
August 30, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
The Creative Process
Creativity is one of my favorite topics. I'm fascinated by what makes one person considered creative and another not. I believe that everyone has the inherent abilities to be creative, so what gives some of us the potential and others not? I think St
August 29, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Hyperlinkology
After reading this incredibly lengthy history of Suck.com and the chapter on "links" in Steven Johnso
August 2, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
The del.icio.us Double Dip
del.icio.us took two more steps towards world domination in the last two days without me noticing. First, by recommendations and then by adding <
August 16, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Why Interfaces Matter (Part One)
How will interfaces evolve in five years? "When Johnson [in Interface Culture talks about "the unlikely secondary effects of new machines rippling out to transform the society that surrounds them" -- what sort of "new machines" do you think
August 8, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Shore Points
I'm not so bi
August 10, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
What's in the Middle?
I highlight every book I read. It's partly out of habit and partly because I've got a shitty memory, but it's not something I'm planning on stopping anytime soon. Anyhow, I'm in the middle of reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/05
August 8, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Site Wierdness
Just as a warning, if you experience any strangeness on the site (things not loading right/looking funny) just hit refresh. I rearranged some things and split up my style sheets a bit, so now when a page tries to load a cached version it may not find
August 3, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
B-B-B-Bouncy Balls
Photo by sem via <a href="http://
August 8, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
The Value of Technorati Tags
I like to think that I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong (clearly not true). While I don't necessarily think I ever came out and said it, I have had trouble understanding the value of Technorati tags. I ne
August 12, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
What's on the Minds of America's Youth?
Vanity Fair is running a contest. It's called "What's on the minds of America's youth today?" and here's the description: More than 30 years ago, young people across the country staged sit-ins for civil rights, got up and protested agains
August 23, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Beautiful Blog
I'm always looking for good looking websites, especially well-designed blogs since so many look the same. With that said, the other day I discovered ShaunInman.com (the site of Shuan Inman, not surprisin
August 29, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Stop Telling Me About the "Top Blogs"
I was reading this research paper about collaborative tagging (which Arienna was so nice as to email me a link to) and I realized why I'm sick of al
August 22, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Make Delete Default
I've been thinking about trying a new RSS aggregator lately. It's not that I have any problem with Bloglines, in fact I like it quite a bit, but they haven't really upgraded the service at all in a while and I'm
August 29, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
PowerPoint Breakup
This thing is way to funny not to write about. Some of you may remember about a year ago a PowerPoint presentation of a guy breaking up with his girlfriend was posted and then disappeared, replaced with a very nasty image. Well, after searching all o
August 17, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Contagious Creations
Just wanted to point everyone to the piece I wrote on viral marketing for AdBumb titled "Contagious Creations". It's all about how the real goal
August 17, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Interesting Looking Blogs
I've been spending a lot of time lately trying to find well-designed blogs. The other day I pointed to ShuanInman.com. I'm really interested in blogs that don't necessarily look like a "blog." Here are a few
August 31, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS