50,000 watts of power … Got my radio on
So, why’s it so ugly around here? I mean, more so than usual?
Today (April 5) is CSS Naked Day, a glorious geek-out where designers hide their designs and show the glorious structure of the underlying code.
In other words, you should still be able to read and use this site (and any other taking part) as […]
I got a little shout-out from Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users today. Woohoo! For those that don’t know CPU is one of the most interesting blogs out there. It deals with technology, marketing, the brain, and how we learn, or, as is too often the case, don’t learn.
So what did I do to […]
Inspired by Erin Banister, I pose the question:
If you were to recommend one book — just one — what would it be? Answer quick, don’t overanalyze, and put down the first one that comes to mind.
For me, the first thing that popped into my head was War With the Newts by Karel Capek. It’s […]
Whether you’re writing for a newspaper, a magazine, for the web, or pretty much anyplace else where you’re writing to an wide and varied audience, there’s a few things that always remain true:
Know what you’re trying to say.
Say it succinctly and clearly.
Don’t lie.
Above all else, make it relate to the audience
I have written professionally for […]
What do you do when you feel you’ve reached a plateau?
After a few years of learning and trying a ton of new things, there comes a day when you look around and there just don’t seem to be any nearby mountains to climb. So what then?
My particular plateau is one of professional development. I’ve […]
Is George Bush the worst president in U.S. history? Maybe.
A group of historians take a look at the long view and come up with quite a litany of reasons why Bush has failed as a president and as a conservative.
At one point I thought the defining phrase of the Bush presidency would be “intelligence […]
If there’s one thing that drives me nuts, it’s management types making the same dumb mistakes over and over, never learning from their predecessors. Peter Anspach tackles the problem with flair in his 100-item checklist on How to be a Successful Evil Overlord.
If only corporate managers had such a clear view of their role […]
Back in 1994-95, when I first started working on the web and the web was young, web pages were generally designed around one simple and near-universal concept: providing information to as many people as possible in most efficient and effective way possible.
Much of that mindset comes from the academic, technical and military origins of the […]
I’m sick of ribbons. Some cars I see may as well fly a rainbow flag, there’s so many ribbons on the back of them — Pink, yellow, blue, red, and on and on…
The “Support Our Troops” ribbons remain relatively benign, I suppose. Whatever feelings you may have toward the misguided machinations and mendacity that got […]