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Catch up or get left behind

September 2, 2009

I’ve been a nomad for a few days in the middle of a short-by-my-standards 300+ mile move from the suburbs of Rochester, NY to the suburbs of Washington D.C. and boy are my legs tired.
But I’m catching up on my reading, and found a few things to share with you on the theme of catching [...]

Minor redesign of this here blog

December 15, 2008

I’ve been whittling away at this at random hours in between 642 other small projects, so feel free to click through and have a look at my handiwork.
Major goals of this minor redesign included:

Play with the header graphic. (Done.)
Fix the FriendFeed stream and make it useful. (Done.)
Clean things up, remove some widget bloat, figure out [...]

November Carnival of Journalism: What would the Obama campaign do?

November 20, 2008

Pretty much every single industry that involves convincing consumers that your product, or idea, or business is a great idea has been strafed with a raft of “What [Your Industry Here] Can Learn From Barack Obama” blog posts lately, and journalism is no exception.
This month’s Carnival of Journalism, which I’m late for due to an [...]

Everything you know about online news design is wrong?

November 20, 2008

Over at Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried explains “why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the Web.”
“The Drudge Report usually leads with a “font size=+7” ALL CAPS headline in Arial. Sometimes it’s italicized. Sometimes, for something big big, he’ll cap it off with the infamous siren.
[snip]
Stories aren’t grouped or organized [...]

Working with developers and designers

June 30, 2008

I wrote a post for IdeaLab earlier today.  It’s a short update on ReportingOn development, framed as a weighing of the pros and cons of a few different development platforms.
It occurred to me near the end of it that I should treat this project as if the developer was someone other than myself.  (Yes, at [...]