Noteworthy Archives

• 30 Dec 2009

  Create triangles, chat bubbles using CSS only

  Jon Rohan offers a neat tip for creating triangles (handy to use instead of « or ») and chat bubbles using CSS borders—no images! Includes IE6 hack. Creating Triangles in CSS

• 14 Dec 2009

  What Matters Now

  What does matter now? Ishita Gupta and Seth Godin asked several notable people (well, with one exception—somehow, I wound up being part of such a distinguished group) to respond with a short essay on a single word that defines what mattered to each of us right now...

• 13 Oct 2009

  The Unseamly Business of SEO

  In his essay "Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists," Derek Powazek describes SEO as a con. I agree. I cringe everytime I see SEO expertise being flaunted in resumes.

• 9 Sep 2009

  Managing Attention and Time

  When we say “I don’t have time to do X” what we really mean is X is not a high enough priority, or, simply “I have more important things to do.” As someone who had an opportunity to be mentored by Seth Godin

• 22 Aug 2009

  Delve:UI Presentations

  A number of slides from the recent Delve:UI event in NY are available on SlideShare. Among my favorites were Josh Porter's Designing for Social Traction and Louis Rosenfeld's Marrying Web Analytics and User Experience.

• 12 Aug 2009

  Help ThinkQuest NYC

  ThinkQuest is an empowering after-school program where kids learn through collaboration and get to conceive, design and code their own Web sites that focus on teaching other school children. I've been a part of ThinkQuest NYC since 2005 as a...

• 19 Jul 2009

  Philip Zimbardo: Dr. Evil

  In this Frog Design article, Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford psychology professor touches on why good people do bad things, leadership lessons from kindergarten and why Spiderman is a poor role model.

• 9 Jul 2009

  Generation M

  While I often cringe at us-versus-them diatribes, I found Umair Haque's The Generation M Manifesto spot-on in his description of how this "movement"-based generation is transforming the Whys and Hows of doing business.

• 14 Jun 2009

  Snow Leopard Font Changes

  The upcoming OS X Snow Leopard ushers changes to font display rendering control and says goodbye to that trusty monospace friend, Monaco. via Ars Technica Update 15 June 2009: Monaco isn't being dropped entirely from Snow Leopard; it's still included as a TTF file.

• 25 May 2009

  Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business

  Apple's Jonathan Ive tops the list of 100 Most Creative People in Business according to Fast Co. While I personally found most of their choices questionable, I was glad to see Hayao Miyazaki (#31), Evan WIlliams (#34), Neil Gaiman (#40), Gary Hustwit (#74) and Jane McGonigal (#80) mentioned.

• 14 May 2009

  RIP Nick West

  Although we've never met in person, you're ITP family and you're exactly the kind of person I want to become. Rest in peace, Nick.

• 10 May 2009

  Objectified Opening at IFC NYC

  Among my favorite quotes from the movie came from Dan Formosa (Smart Design), "Design for the extremes…and the middle will take care of itself."

• 21 Mar 2009

  Pew Research: State of the News Media

  A perfectly-timed research companion to Clay Shirky's Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable and Steven Johnson's Old Growth Media And The Future Of News: Pew's newly-released comprehensive report on the state of the News media.

• 25 Jan 2009

  Designers Republic RIP

  Sadly, Designers Republic closed its studio. “It hasn’t really been DR for the last two or three years: it had gone too far from what it was supposed to be. I want to go back to what DR was ... working hands-on and not through account managers..."

• 4 Jan 2009

  Bits of Clay

  Part 1 and Part 2 of CJR's interview with Clay Shirky.

• 3 Jan 2009

  Certifiably Kick-Ass 9-Year Old Girl

  A 9-year-old Indian girl has become the youngest person to become a Microsoft Certified Professional. She broke the record formerly held by a 10-year-old Pakistani girl. Who says girls don't like tech? Via Ars Technica

• 3 Jan 2009

  This is your brain on brands

  According to a recent study by THEY, a brand consultancy from the Netherlands (clever name for a branding firm!), the "brain selects brands the way Google selects Web sites" by using a best-fit algorithm based on three elements. (Actually, shouldn't it be the other way around? Google works the way our brain selects brands?)

• 21 Sep 2008

  Clay Shirky at Web2.0 Expo

  More ITP shout-outs from Web2.0 Expo: Clay Talks about Information Overload and Filter Failure.

• 20 Sep 2008

  The Internet Industry in NY

  "It all started when Red Burns opened the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU" according to Fred Wilson during his talk at Web 2.0 Expo. ITP reprazent.

• 19 Sep 2008

  I'm a...well, speechless

  Apparently, Microsoft's I'm a PC ads by Crispin Porter + Bogusky were made on Macs. Ouch. Via Roughly Drafted.

• 22 Jun 2008

  Design for Ugly

  I ran across this tearful and inspirational story about Ugly that reminded me of what I detest about most design. Rather than focusing on our very basic need for meaningful interaction, most designers spend time unnecessarily on superficial elements. Look deeper inside. Focus on the emotional interaction. Design for Ugly.

• 6 Jun 2008

  The Girl Effect

  A viral video about humanity. It's immensely moving, powerful and is what compelling content needs to be. Storytelling in its simplest form: type and maybe a couple of colors. The Girl Effect

• 31 May 2008

  Keeping Up With Social Tagging

  An Adobe Connect-based screencast of a presentation on Social Tagging, Social Bookmarking by Thomas Vander Wal, commonly credited for coining the term folksonomy.

• 17 May 2008

  Shawn van Every

  Shawn is genius and I'm glad his students and NYU recognized him with an award. Here's his acceptance speech.

• 23 Feb 2008

  Taggers, Moshers, Skaters— Unite!

  Having made it as an official selection for the 2008 SXSW Film Festival, Beautiful Losers is the new Helvetica. Trust me on this one.

• 9 Feb 2008

  Obama Posters by Shepard Fairey

  Shepard Fairey designs Barack Obama's posters.

• 23 Jan 2008

  People before Profitability

  There is simply no question that Mr. Bezos’s obsession with his customers — and the long term — has paid off, even if he had to take some hits

• 25 Nov 2007

  OLPC and Negroponte

  Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman Emeritus of MIT Media Lab and more recently known for the non-profit One Laptop Per Child will be on air on Paltalk Monday 11/26 5pm ET ...

• 17 Oct 2007

  Help Nick West

  Nick is an incredibly accomplished fellow ITP alum who was recently diagnosed with an advanced state of prostate cancer. Friends/fellow alums have built a website where others can send him well-wishes, donate money or airline miles or just extend moral support. Please help. Help Nick West

• 19 Jun 2007

  Online participation habits among teens, Gen X, Gen Y, Boomers and Geezers

  BusinessWeek has a graphical take on online participation levels by age group based on a recent report by Forrester Research (see earlier blog post).

• 8 May 2007

  ITP Spring Show 2007

  A number of the thesis projects are on display at ITP's Spring Show along with other students' projects. MAKE got early pictures of the show: MAKE: ITP Spring Show 2007 photos

• 2 May 2007

  Levels of Participation in Social Media

  A new report from Forrester estimates that 13% of adult consumers are content creators; 19% are critics who comment on blogs and/or post ratings and reviews; 15% are collectors; 19% are joiners; 33% are spectators (often called lurkers); and 52% don't perform any of the previously mentioned activities. Another interesting aspect of their survey shows that Apple users are more likely to be content creators (heavier participation overall) than Dell users. From ZDNet: Climbing the social Web ladder.

• 30 Apr 2007

  Coffee + News = Nerdery

  News Brews is Benjamin Brown's ITP master's thesis. It's a device that uses news feeds as a data source and produces a proportionate blend of coffees from the news origin. You can view the ITP thesis page or his thesis documentation, Beverage Informatics, for more information. Oh, and he's working on a java applet. So geeky. (How about one in Cocoa?)

• 29 Apr 2007

  Stapler that doesn't use metal staples

  If you're stapling just a few sheets of paper, consider using the Staple Free Stapler. Really nice design staples sheets by tucking the paper into itself. No more prying off staples with your fingernails or choking the shredder by accidentally feeding it metal staples.

• 29 Apr 2007

  Tracking Viralness -- Literally

  Are you sick? If so, you may just want to visit Who is Sick as you recuperate. Just enter your illness info and you can get a summary of sickness trends in your area as well as other things that any hypochondriac would love.

• 29 Apr 2007

  Org Charts in the Age of Web 2.0

  I love Forbes' new *experiment* -- tapping into the knowledge of Web users to help construct org charts for various companies wiki-style: Forbes: Org Chart WIki. Reminds me of They Rule.

• 9 Apr 2007

  The Civil Web

  Sparked in part by recent death threats to Kathy Sierra, Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales are "proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse" based on community guidelines drafted by BlogHer for its community. A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs. Yes, count me in. And yes, too bad we even need something like this.

• 9 Mar 2007

  Free Fonts from exljbris

  Beautifully crafted, complete families—all free ! My favorites: fontin and the aptly named delicious. exljbris

• 2 Feb 2007

  Judging a Book by Its Cover

  "On average, a bookstore browser spends 8 seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15 seconds looking at the back cover. " Hmm, seems like we truly are a Blink society. Some book statistics.

• 10 Dec 2006

  Where Digg Stories Come From

  Nice analysis of top Diggers' online sources. YouTube, News.com, Yahoo News, NY Times and BBC News make up the top 5. The rest are somewhat surprising, including Northwest Florida News at #11. Which sites do the Top Diggers Read?

• 30 Nov 2006

  Forms up the Wazoo

  I really heart Smashing Magazine's well-curated collections of practical resources for designers. This time around, I stumbled upon a treasure trove of web forms resources: CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions.

• 26 Nov 2006

  Mothers are the Mother of Invention

  It's always easiest to build from what's personally meaningful to you. Innovations inspired by kids Parents' creativity unleashed when faced with practical needs

• 6 Nov 2006

  Weekend Web 2.0

  A noteworthy Web 2.0 special report from The Guardian this weekend, if, for nothing else, because it doesn't include the over-exposed MySpace bunch. Weekend Magazine Web 2.0 Special | Guardian Unlimited

• 25 Oct 2006

  Jenkins on Participatory Culture

  Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century is a crisp, cogent white paper by Henry Jenkins for the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning Initiative on the emergence and challenges of participatory media and users as content creators.

• 18 Oct 2006

  Guide to Brainstorming

  BusinessWeek offers Eight Rules to Brilliant Brainstorming. (Yes, there are rules.)

• 5 Oct 2006

  Ellen Lupton's Call for Free Fonts

  In her Free Font Manifesto, Ellen Lupton urges foundries to offer good free fonts because they "have an explicit social purpose...[offering] the basics for maintaining literacy and communication within a society."

• 1 Oct 2006

  Project Runway Meets Hack Day

  All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize for their entry, Blogging in Motion, a photoblogging system in the guise of a handbag. For fans of Project Runway, you'll notice that one of the team members is Diana Eng, the season 2 wearables mistress who is clearly no stranger to 24-hour deadlines with crazy creative constraints.

• 16 Sep 2006

  Over Half of MySpace Users are Over 35

  52 percent of MySpace users are over 35. Now, it makes sense...or at least why I'm completely repulsed by it.

• 7 Sep 2006

  Celebrity Look-a-Like

  Has anyone ever told you you look like someone famous? My Heritage Face Recognition has an interesting technology that compares your photo and tries to find the closest celebrity matches in its database. More fun that functional.

• 29 Aug 2006

  You can take it(unes) with you

  It's the next best thing to an iPod: Musicast: Broadcast Your Music.

• 22 Aug 2006

  IE7 CSS Changes

  IE has made "over 200 behavior changes" which includes fixing a number of bugs from Position Is Everything. Oh joy! Well, that is, if only folks would stop using earlier versions of IE altogether. IE Blog: Details on our CSS changes for IE7.

• 22 Aug 2006

  Today's Funny Site: 5ives

  5ives is from Merlin Mann, the guy who brought you 43 Folders. He has my sense of humor and my taste in music. (And, from the looks of his site, shares a similar minimalist aesthetic!)

• 17 Aug 2006

  Infographics for Everyday People

  Indexed features a wealth of charts and visual aids for life's common conundrums. Via Core77.com.

• 17 Aug 2006

  CSS Optimizers Tested

  Blogging Pro does a great job of testing a handful of free CSS optimizers so you don't have to: CSS Optimization: Make Your Sites Load Faster for Free

• 16 Aug 2006

  DIY Heatmaps

  Create your own heatmap based on user clicks. The Definitive Heatmap

• 5 Aug 2006

  The "At Sign"

  In Holland it's called "apestaart" (monkey tail) and in Germany it's known as "Klammeraffe" (hanging monkey). In France, it's either "arobas" or "petit escargot" (small snail). But in English, it's simply called the rather colorless "at sign". Interesting backstory on the web's darling symbol: A Sign of the TImes and Symbols.com: the @ symbol.

• 29 Jul 2006

  Compute! Magazine Archive

  OMG! I just found this Classic Computer Magazine Archive: Compute! Magazine and I nearly cried. This is how I created my first (infinite) loop, my first game. This is how nerdy kids like me...

• 22 Jul 2006

  Sustainable Cardboard House

  Add The Cardboard House to the list of affordable kit homes with style.

• 18 Jul 2006

  Innovating for the Masses, Not the Money

  Putting people at the heart of innovation: Power Laws Of Innovation via Core77.

• 17 Jul 2006

  Client-Designer Relationships: The Abridged Version

  In this day and age, I'm surprised to find the occasional client who still thinks a designer is no more than a (insert graphical application here) monkey. Seth knows otherwise and this is one of the many reasons I respect this man: How to live happily with a great designer. I'm inclined to include this in my proposals as a guideline for client-designer relationships...some clients can really use it.

• 16 Jul 2006

  SEO for Ethicisits

  Simple, straightforward advice on how to optimize your site for search engines without going to the Dark Side. The Power of Natural SEO

• 9 Jul 2006

  Roll Your Own Eye Tracking Tests

  DIY eye tracking using Open Eyes, open source code: Real-Time Eye Tracking, found via Digg.

• 8 Jul 2006

  Code Snippet Motherload

  Snipplr Code 2.0 is searchable community-driven database for source code snippets, similar to koders (mentioned last 11/04).

• 6 Jul 2006

  SXSW Podcast

  The podcast for the SXSW panel I was on this past March, Does Your Blog Have a Business, is now finally available!

• 6 Jul 2006

  IT Support Humor

  Dave, this one's for you. The Register is taking votes for your favorite IT support anecdotes. (Found via Slashdot). For you and others out there who provide IT support, I salute you.

• 26 Jun 2006

  Digg Demographics

  I dig Digg. So I was pretty interested in finding out more about Digg's audience. Once again, my preferences tend to skew male. Federated Media on Digg's audience.

• 25 Jun 2006

  Give it away, give it away, give it away now

  Warren Buffett will start giving away his fortune worth an estimated $44 billion -- most of which will go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Respect.

• 24 Jun 2006

  Get Home Safely

  Another reason why I heart NY. RightRides offers free rides home for women, transpeople and gender queer individuals to see that they get home safely. RightRides is available every Saturday night from Midnight -3 AM late night Saturdays (aka early Sunday morning). Visit RightRides Programs for more information.

• 22 Jun 2006

  Panda Poop and Poopers

  Scientists are using panda fecal analysis to get better calaculations of the panda population and are estimating that the population may be 50% higher than the current estimated 1600 worldwide. Too bad that a handful of the Ars Technica commenters poo-pooed the research and would rather see the panda population dwindle to extinction. Nobel Intent: Panda Profiling.

• 17 Jun 2006

  Father's Day Factoids

  The Origin of Father's Day and other Father's Day factoids, via Live Science. Interesting statistic from the report: "All in all, 84 percent of child-support...

• 16 Jun 2006

  Link Love

  Jared Spool extols the merits of link-rich sites: Lifestyles of the Link-Rich Home Pages.

• 12 Jun 2006

  The Peter Pan Principle

  Middle-agers are the new kids as more grown-ups indulge themselve in cartoons and other kid fare: Adults Do The Darndest Things.

• 12 Jun 2006

  Spam: Taiwanese Style

  A while back, I blogged about Mailinator's Spam mashup -- a map that plots the IP locations of spam they've filtered. A recent survey by email security firm CipherTrust, however, claims that most spam comes from Taiwan, a whopping 64%! Taiwan fingered as the hub of spam distribution via The Register.

• 8 Jun 2006

  ThinkQuest NYC 2006 Winners

  Congratulations to the 2006 TQNYC internet challenge award winners. As I mentioned in a previous post, ThinkQuest is an afterschool collaborative...

• 8 Jun 2006

  iTunes: Emerging Channel for PDF eBooks

  The latest issue of The Fader is available for free on iTunes. Of course, MAKE magazine, had released PDFs through iTunes on occasion in the...

• 7 Jun 2006

  Utah Freakonomics

  While George W. Bush's popularity continues to plunge, folks in Utah have steadfastly supported the president (NY Times). Interestingly enough, Utah has the greatest prevalence of poor mental health in the United States. Coincidence? Well, it's certainly one for the Freakonomists.

• 7 Jun 2006

  Accessibility for the Elderly, Visually-Impaired

  Two interesting products that address accessibility for the visually impaired and the growing elderly population. SpeakOn, developed by blind entrepreneur Chris Mairs, is a new device that challenges the paradigm of current screen readers such as JAWS to make the web accessible to the blind. According to Mairs...

• 4 Jun 2006

  Blogs and the Cost of Advertising

  Hugh MacLeod's blog-based ad campaign for Stormhoek wines recently won Best Consumer campaign beating out bigger ad budget competitors (Chivas' Brothers campaign cost 40 million Euros!) for the cost of a $400 commercial blog software license. And the Winner Is...

• 3 Jun 2006

  Get Well Sawyer!

  Sawyer is a 12-year old boy who was recently striken with a yet unknown illness that has left him immobile from the waist down. His Uncle Howard, a fellow ITP alum, has created a viral invitation for people to send in their photos to give their well-wishes to Sawyer: Get well, Sawyer!

• 2 Jun 2006

  How to be a Great Illustrator in Two Years

  Gez Fry has an outstanding portfolio of Japanese-style illustrations. Not bad for someone who started out with absolutely no illustration experience...

• 31 May 2006

  State of the Union, Deconstructed

  Think of the President's State of the Union Address as the nation's zeitgeist for the pulsepoints of the American people. (Okay, so in some cases, you may have to read between the lines a bit.) And so it makes for rich material for new media artists...

• 30 May 2006

  Worldwide, Internet Users Are Still the Minority

  According to Miniwatts Marketing Group's Internet Usage and World Population Statistics, 68.6% of North Americans use the internet. But North America only represents 5.1% of the worldwide population. Worldwide internet penetration is just 15.7%.

• 29 May 2006

  An Inconvenient Truth Finds an Audience

  The film on global warming with Al Gore (QuickTime movie trailer) managed to climb to #11 at the box office despite its limited release in only four theaters. An Inconvenient Truth - Off to a Good Start, via Treehugger.

• 29 May 2006

  UNIQLO SoHo

  UNIQLO -- the Japanese clothing company that's a cross between Banana Republic's affordable, casual yet refined aesthetic and the Body Shop's socially responsible raison d'etre -- will be opening a retail store in NY City's SoHo. They have launched a...

• 29 May 2006

  Skeet Shoot: The General Theory of Design

  I empathize/commiserate with Brian Sooy's poignant General Theory of Design: "Design consists of creating things for clients who may not know what they want...

• 26 May 2006

  Visualizing Websites by Tags: The Applet

  Sala at aharef.info just posted the applet for visualizing websites by tags (see earlier post). It uses Processing, the java-based, open source...

• 25 May 2006

  Visualizing Websites by Tags

  A graphical way of viewing site complexity and structure as color-coded nodes and branches: Aharef: Websites as graphs.

• 25 May 2006

  New Products Getting Nekked

  Oh, the bliss of opening a shiny, new digital toy. Unboxing.com is a new blog that indulges those of us who get goose-pimply as we slowly peel off packaging layers from our prized gadgets. Of course, this comes just shortly after Wired released Tales From Packaging Hell: the unseamly side of unboxing.

• 23 May 2006

  Editorial Style Guide

  The Telegraph released their blogging style guide, a brief primer to blogging best practices. My favorite tip: "Try to avoid writing things like "you can read the full report here", with 'here' being the link. A construction such as "the...

• 22 May 2006

  Sign of the Times

  Does anyone actually use newspapers for stock data? Finally: The New York Times to Cease Printing Daily Stock Tables. Rebuilding Media: The fate of media.

• 21 May 2006

  Pearl Jam Does Good Web 2.0 Business

  Pearl Jam released their most recent video under a Creative Commons license. The video can be donwloaded for free from May 19-24 at Google Video...

• 19 May 2006

  Feed Factoids

  Did you know that heaviest volume of feeds are read on Tuesday? Find out more feed factoids from Pheedo's current findings (PDF) on feeds and user behaviors, via Online News Squared.

• 17 May 2006

  Imagery, Ten Ways

  Interactive pieces commissioned by Getty Images that explore visual language. My favorites: Less Rain's Color , and Sumona's Information. 10 ways.

• 17 May 2006

  One of the Top Three Vices

  Amiglia is a smart, best-of-breed Web 2.0 genealogy application created by fellow ITP alums, Paul and Milena Berry. And, it's free during their beta period. "[Genealogy] is the third most popular pursuit...behind the twin vices of gambling and porn," ...

• 16 May 2006

  Highlights from the 2006 ITP Spring Show

  If you weren't able to catch the ITP Show last week, you can be there vicariously through these pre-show videos: Day 1; Day 2. Wired also recently featured the show within the context of the Infinite Games project. Cool Hunting also has a few highlights from last week's ITP Spring Show.

• 14 May 2006

  Recent Thank Yous

  A few thanks are in order. First, thank you, mom, for your saintly selflessness in caring for me (I know I can be a handful!) Happy mother's day! Thanks also to Steven Colbert, for having the bravado to say...

• 12 May 2006

  PDF Versions of Current Magazines for Free!

  Free PDF eMagazines of popular newsstand titles including Make vol. 5, the May 2006 edition, Step Inside Design, April 2006 issue -- even the current issue of Harvard Business Review -- and much more. (Yes, you read it right -- FREE!)

• 11 May 2006

  Tai Shan Moonwalk

  Just had to post this video (Quicktime) of Tai Shan, or Butterstick. I caught the baby panda prodding mom while she was asleep. Then, when he was satisfied that she was asleep, he went on to his cute antics...

• 5 May 2006

  Pictures of Missing Children, 2.0

  Brilliant use of Flickr to view photos and profiles of missing children. Flickr: Photos from Help Find These People (tabhastal's 2nd account) via MIT Advertising Lab.

• 5 May 2006

  Funny Pictures: GW Bush at the Correspondents Dinner

  A few video stills of George W. Bush reacting to Stephen Colbert's speech at the Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner: Make Tea Not War - Bush in distress: reaction shots at the WH Correspondents Dinner.

• 30 Apr 2006

  Death & Information Graphics

  Somewhat macabre, but it seems that artists/designers have found interesting ways to convey death statistics. The New York Times, for instance, recently ran a graphical map showing homicides in New York City's five boroughs between 2003 and 2005: Homicides and Crime in New York City - New York Times Interactive Graphic. Instead of their typical...

• 27 Apr 2006

  Fewer Folks Fear Cookies

  Seems that internet users are getting over their cookie paranoia. According to a poll conducted by The Ponemon Institute, only 8% of those surveyed deleted cookies routinely, a marked contrast from a study done Jupiter Research a year ago where almost 40% reported they deleted cookies on a regular basis. Survey: Net Users Easing Up on the Cookie Hate, via Clickz.

• 25 Apr 2006

  Looking to Work on a Mobile Social App?

  Friends at Kamida -- the folks who brought you Socialight -- are hiring. They are offering internship opportunities for developers and designers and are also looking for a full-time Lead Engineer. See details...

• 25 Apr 2006

  Thumbs Up for ThinkFree Online Office

  You get 1GB file storage. You can create, edit, collaborate and share Microsoft-compatible word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Did I mention that it's entirely free? ThinkFree. I've only just started to play with it so I'm sure there are more features that I haven't uncovered yet. It probably makes coffee too.

• 21 Apr 2006

  DonorsChoose Gets Blogging

  DonorsChoose has tapped bloggers to help raise money for learning materials and experiences that schools cannot afford through their Blogger Challenge. You can help public school kids by funding my Kids and Technology Challenge at DonorsChoose. Or, you can help spread the work by blogging about the challenge or submitting the DonorsChoose Challenge to Digg and other similar sites.

• 18 Apr 2006

  Steer Clear of Angry People

  While seemingly obvious, Kathy Sierra offers some research on why Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain. Of course, my own quick cure for those times when I get sucked into negativity: watching baby panda videos.

• 14 Apr 2006

  Searches Typically End on Page 3

  Not so surprising results from a Jupiter/iProspect survey show that most Search users 'stop at page three' of the search results.

• 5 Apr 2006

  Low Usage for Podcasts

  Although "podcast" topped the list of new words for the past year, apparently the masses (myself included) haven't truly taken an affinity for it with a paltry 1% admitting to using podcasts regularly, according to Forrester Research. Read the overview from Charlene Li's Blog: Forrester podcasting report - just 1% use podcasts.

• 1 Apr 2006

  Good Magazine

  Beautifully designed magazine, GOOD MAGAZINE | What Matters, done by Area 17. It has the typical impeccable typography and gridwork of Arnaud Mercier. What a good magazine, indeed.

• 29 Mar 2006

  Internet Adoption Plateaus in North America; Dependency Continues to Grow

  While internet adoption may be slowing, dependence on it continues to grow , according to the latest Ipsos Insight's latest study, The Face of the Web.

• 22 Mar 2006

  Latest Version of NetNewsWire Lite Released

  Just announced: Ranchero Software: NetNewsWire Lite 2.1b18 released today...

• 20 Mar 2006

  Blog Boo-Boo

  A quick note of thanks to Derek Sisson of Site Design: Designing in Quality for pointing out a typo (potfolio) in my Works section. Note to self: updating a site at 4am is not a good idea.

• 6 Jan 2006

  Unbearable Cuteness of Being

  I've become smitten with Tai Shan, the National Zoo's adorable fluffball of a panda cub. And, like millions of people worldwide, I've been tuning in daily to the zoo's two webcams to get my fix. Lately, I found that I...