November 2007
16 posts
Big Changes vs Iteration
Jakob Lodwick wrote about several approaches to rebuilding & improving a web project: When judging any human behavior, it’s important to examine the default approach; ie, what do people do, in that context, when they have not given careful thought to their work? In the case of development, “relaunches” are the default. If you aren’t careful — if you don’t...
"Transparency" is for the Bold Elite
Peter Knox’s popular “Transparency Manifesto” boldly proclaims: This is my website. If you don’t want to hire me for this transparency, maybe I don’t want to work for you. If you don’t want to date me for this exposure, maybe I don’t want to date you. Now that’s punk rock! But it’s also really easy to say it if you are in a certain spot in life. I bet if you are...
WatchI miss Gainesville.
“The single greatest threat to the [print] media is that you dont read it.”
– Unknown [from my Blackberry notes, will note speaker next time :)]
Why I enjoy Tumblr (Flickr, Vimeo and Facebook)
Now I know why I enjoy reading through someone’s Tumblr pages, going through someone’s entire Flickr or Vimeo profile, or browsing through Facebook status updates.
Tumblr made this especially apparent - as I read, browse, and consume this stuff, I caught myself automatically imagining what’s it like to be in that person’s world.
Turns out, I read to find an answer to:...
NYC Subway Makes you Win
Or at least, it makes you feel like you win. Any time you are about to take the subway after 10pm and you wait for the train for less than a few minutes, you win!
Naturally, if you have to transfer to another line, you have more opportunities to win.
It’s a wonder to see a system designed with such thinking in mind. You never feel so lucky in the London Underground since the trains...
Music blogs are killing music
Or maybe, it’s the Internet that is killing music? No, it’s today’s artists, they are worse than ever, so that’s why everyone is in trouble… Interesting blog post on the Guardian music blog: If you love music, stop taking it for free As an exercise, I’ve taken the article and replaced all mentions of “music blogs” and “mp3 blogs” with...
Help me meet "taggedhype", the del.icio.us user of...
Me and the rest of Hype Machine really want to meet the del.icio.us user taggedhype. Because of the small amount of information del.icio.us collects (Yay for privacy, actually), this is harder than finding someone in NYC who just got off the subway. He (she?) managed to create an incredible system that pulls in the Hype Machine RSS feed and then tags it with a variety of highly relevant tags. ...
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Welcome!
I’ve never had my own blog, but the simplicty of Tumblr has me sold. This is going to be fun!