Category / Writing
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Wikipedia for all
One of my all-time favorite websites is the wikipedia – partly because I’ve used it for many years to look up terms, concepts, historical facts; also because I like to link to…
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Pingoat rocks
I’ve been looking at ways to increase blog traffic and I’ll be posting more about the services and various techniques I’m using, but for now, you’ve got to try pingoat, a great…
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Plazes location mapping
Twenty-four hours ago, I was playing with IndyJunior and wishing I could add more real-time data to the map or share the data with someone in more ways than just a hover…
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Web Mapping Technology
I was searching to see if anyone had released some Ajax-driven maps and came across “Build AJAX-Based Web Maps Using ka-Map” by Tyler Mitchell which led me to an open source map…
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XML and Flash Map of My Travels
I found Bryan Boyer’s IndyJunior several years ago when it was still v1.3 and played with it back then. For some reason, it popped into my head again the other day so…
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Blog comments on
I’ve resisted turning comments on in my blog for some time. It’s not that I haven’t wanted feedback from you or to know what you think. It probably has more to do…
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One Year Later
Tonight marks the one year anniversary of moving here to SF and finding ourselves right where we want to be – in the heart of the web world with our own selected…
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Mash-up the Web
While the term mash-up has its roots in hip hop culture, the web mash-up seems a natural evolution of our need to customize and our love of hacks. (See an earlier post…
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Six Apart and Ideacodes
I’ve moved several times in the last nine years – five moves, three states, and two coasts to be exact. Despite these environmental and physical shifts in my life, it’s ironic that…
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Don’t just make it pretty, make it strategic
Since I started designing websites for universities and colleges in 1996, I’ve had numerous conversations about design, both with those on the inside (administrators, marketing communications directors, admissions counselors, information technology teams,…
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The Corporation
I was already entirely aware that we live in a world dominated by corporate messages and influence, controlled by the unending influence of money and profit, but the documentary, The Corporation, paints…
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How much does a college or university blog really cost?
If you’re a school that wants to start a blog for reasons of recruitment, communication, academic voice, strategic planning, or community-buiding, but you’ve been hesitant to, I feel your pain. I used…
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BeingEDU
I’m now writing about more strategic and web related issues over at a new Ideacodes blog, BeingEDU.com. Being EDU™ is a weblog about strategic web design and development for college and university…
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Organize Your Brain, Then Share It
As big fans of Basecamp, we were excited to try out 37signals‘ personal information manager, Backpack. A lot of applications have claimed to be online organizers, but Backpack is the first web…
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The Beauty of Web Standards
We’ve been advocating web standards for some time now, but for those of you first hearing about the benefits of building and designing sites around web standards, the W3C has a great…
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Offline Design
As an online designer, I’m always looking offline for inspiration and ideas. (Once you’ve been a sculptor, you can never truly escape the physical world.) Part of the beauty of city life…
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Well-behaved women seldom make history
Received email from misbehaving yesterday and I’m proud to be listed among many of the most influential women in technology today. misbehaving.net is a weblog about women and technology. It’s a celebration…
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Two Web 2.0 Apps Challenge the Status Quo
Two new web apps caught my eye this evening as I scanned my email: Nuvvo and Newsvine. The two sites are very different in their concept and functionality, but both share the…
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Around the world
My travels so far… World travel by country (18 countries, 8% of the world) By U.S. state (26 states, 50%) By Canadian province (3 provinces, 23%) By European country (2 countries, 3%)…
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SXSW 2004
SXSW interactive festival, March 12-16, 2004, Austin, TX. Not only was it great to have my site, ADD, as a finalist in the SXSW Interactive Awards, I thoroughly enjoyed the conference, in…
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Hack This (Please)
In Hack This (Please), Andy Kessler writes about the benefits of true hacks (“clever solutions to an interesting problem) and the “new breed of users out there, computer-literate consumers who don’t think…
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Because someone has to support innovation…
The Switala Foundation supports creativity and innovation in the arts and media. Started in 2002 by my dear friend, Rebecca Bernstein, for her husband, Tim Switala, “a creative innovator, who dedicated his…
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Mood type
Mood Letters. Why cast typefaces in “immutable metal” when digital offers so much more possibility? Such was the attitude brought by Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum of the Dutch design…
