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My Week Without “Social Media”

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I decided rather abruptly to leave off any sites which were “social” in nature for a week to see how I got along. I did this last Tuesday. Why that day? Because all good things start on Tuesdays.
I reorg’d my bookmarks and put all of my regular hangouts into a folder named […]

Apple Can’t Have My $2147 Either

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Back when the MacBook Air first came out (okay, three days ago), I had the opportunity to paraphrase that always apropos line from The Dirty Dozen, “It’s very pretty. But can it fight?” The consensus is that, yes, it can fight. If by fighting you mean “perfect for conferences or cafés!”
That aside, what […]

The New Face of Web Standards

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Back in 2003, a book called Designing With Web Standards was published by New Riders Voices That Matter imprint. The book was quickly, and rightly hailed as the go to book for, well, designing with web standards. Anyone who found themselves in a job where the web was their medium was impacted by […]

Push Button. Receive Bacon.

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Push Button. Receive Bacon., originally uploaded by Matthew Oliphant.
Someone at work recently sent out a request to see if anyone had done research on icons. Turns out I was the only one to respond.
I did a study on icons a few years ago. It was for my last job so it’s proprietary […]