Something new! Let’s all panic.
A post by Clark Humphrey on MiscMedia alerted me to A Better Pencil by English professor Dennis Baron; in theContinue Reading
Category: Online Work/Life
Practicing change
Sometimes change comes about through persistent lobbying and mediation, but often it happens because a couple of people with hides like armadillos, plenty of energy, and a good sense of timing, push the changes through.
The big problem with nonprofits’ websites
Many nonprofit websites are doomed to crumminess because, no matter how much time the organization spends moaning about it, the website remains at the absolute bottom of the organization’s priority list.
The morning after Gnomedex
Gnomedex 9 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center was everything it was cracked up to be and well worth theContinue Reading
The three forbidden words of web design
IE6 has long been the bane of the web design community. You design a site and it works in Firefox, it works in Opera — heck, it even works in Safari. But in IE6? Anything can happen, and, usually it does.
Are you ready for the black swan?
Bryan Alexander, the research director at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, has written a sweeping article onContinue Reading
Two more things
A few final words (from me, at least) on Macworld 2009: I missed Chris Pirillo’s talk on community (ironically, whileContinue Reading
What’s Twitter, and why I love it
If you work in an environment filled with friendly, fascinating people, where you continually hear about exciting news (local, online, and around the world), and you are encouraged to be witty and playful, then you don’t need Twitter.
Warm wishes for the holidays
The winter holidays are pretty much contiguous this year, which means we can light our menorahs, Christmas trees, and YuleContinue Reading
