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URLs for some of the sites I’ll be citing tomorrow at the BigFoot Blogging Conference. The History of Weblogshttp://oldweblogscomblog.scripting.com/historyOfWeblogs The Register (on blog conferences)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08/13/webloggers_deal_harvard_blogbores/ The Register (on teenage girls blogging)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/30/most_bloggers_are_teenage_girls/Anne Kilkenny email (repost of)http://www.andrys.com/palin-kilkenny.html Guy Kawasaki’s blog “How to Change … Continue reading →

You can control how you go about seeking professional recognition but you can’t control how or when it comes — or what you’ll be doing when it arrives. The news of the biggest and most exciting contract I ever won … Continue reading →

The first BigFoot Blogging Conference, featuring ubergeek Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome and Gnomedex fame, is this Saturday at the University of Washington. The conference, sponsored by iCultur.com and the University of Washington’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is intended as an opportunity … Continue reading →

Writers, artists, and fans gather next weekend in Redmond for Foolscap X — a literary convention devoted to “flat stuff; funny hats.” The “flat stuff” is written and/or illustrated science fiction, fantasy and related-genre works. Small and focused, Foolscap is … Continue reading →

The Office Rat blog, written by massage therapist Larry Swanson, offers tips for reversing the damage done to us daily by our office chairs, desks, and computer set-ups.

One of the reasons I try to get my budget clients to use “canned” templates on their brochure websites is that the templates are generally coded to look good on a variety of browsers. They don’t break, even if the … Continue reading →

The Writer Way blog enjoyed a vacation but I didn’t; I was busy…writing. And soon I’m going to be busy putting together a presentation for an upcoming Seattle blogging conference. More on that later. Meanwhile, check out these insights from … Continue reading →

The novel itself sounds pretty good, too.

Steve Smith, writing for MediaPosts Mobile Insider (subscription required), quotes Ion CEO Justin Talerico about the behavior of consumers who come to a site from phone-platform email (rather than desktop email). It’s intriguing, though I’m not wild about the term … Continue reading →

If you thinking “usability testing” is something that only big companies do, think again. Just about anyone doing website or application design should conduct user research to see how users interact with a beta version of their product. But until … Continue reading →