December 2010
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June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
4 posts
April 2010
7 posts
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Design in 5 easy steps + 30 design minds
Yesterday I stumbled across an interesting article, which lead me to an even more interesting site. The article is How to Design Like You Give a Damn in 5 Easy Steps on Fast Company. It’s a quick read with some great photos. The steps, by the way, are: give a damn about process; give a damn about people; give a damn about what you’re designing; give a damn about your impact; give a...
We have met the enemy, and he is powerpoint →
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a good powerpoint bashing. There’s a fun article on the New York Times site about the use of powerpoint by the US military.
Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of...
March 2010
5 posts
February 2010
5 posts
Billy Zane!!!
Life just got one better: The Phantom, the Citizen Kane of unitard movies, was just released on Blu-ray. Sunam laughs. She thinks people only know Zane as the bad guy from Titanic, but that role was child’s play. Purple spandex and the Skulls of Touganda in luscious 1080p. I can hardly wait.
Shameless self-promotion: Analytics 360 Webinar... →
Shelby and I are on the Web analytics road show again. First up: Analytics 360: How to track and measure (and show to your boss) the ROI of your marketing initiatives, March 10 & 11, 2010 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET. More details available at HigherEdExperts.com »
In June we present at the Penn State Web Conference. After that, who knows… I wouldn’t mind another trip to HighEdWeb.
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world and the best that we can...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
January 2010
10 posts
“This so-called genre [the gothic] fascinates me because it is so powerful a...”
– Joyce Carol Oates, The Madness of Art
“A sentimentalist is one who wishes the luxury of exploiting an emotion without...”
– Oscar Wilde
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In the beginning the word meant something else
For whatever reason, I’ve got this thing with typography, calligraphy, letter forms, and writing systems. My wife Sunam does not. Yet despite her lack of interest in typography, calligraphy, or writing systems, she has a knack for finding remarkable books about the subjects and giving them to me as gifts. Books like The Typographic Desk Reference, or books by TΣX creator Donald Knuth.
This...
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Books 2010: When I Talk About Running...
Four years ago (2006) I tried to log a year’s worth of reading, and did pretty well. It was my intention to keep the log going, but then little things—like the births of Nolan in 2007 and Jacob in 2009—got in the way; I found myself short on time for things like blogging, and my reading took a serious hit. But I’d like to try it again, so here goes… the first book I finished...
December 2009
5 posts
I work with awesome people
So for the last several weeks I’ve been part of a team working on a large project with a crazy deadline. Seriously, an insane amount of work with a tight deadline being done in a suboptimal manner… a total case study for the problems that Google Wave is designed to fix.
Anyway, one of the deliverables from this team was a PowerPoint presentation. We needed some graphics. There were...
November 2009
7 posts
“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple...”
– Steve Jobs, Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998
(via sheasylvia / taratallman)
October 2009
11 posts
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Tim Nekritz (SUNY Oswego) on college students and... →
Interesting article about social media and how it is used by college students. The sample was small, but Tim’s anecdotal information matches my own experience. Of my wife’s friends in grad school, 100% are on Facebook, many are heavy IM users, and the 1% on Twitter hardly ever use it. I personally use Twitter much more heavily than Facebook, but mostly to keep in touch with coworkers...
