Archive for August, 2009
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-28
Ochocinco kicks against the Pats…awesome! http://bit.ly/3zooN7 #
If libraries can lend ebooks, why can't we? #
Looking forward to the Tenth Inning on PBS next year: http://bit.ly/mV30W #
Atul Gawande profiel in the Harvard magazine…holla! http://bit.ly/wdQa3 #
Better yet, get the PDF version: http://bit.ly/3hTUMu #
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-21
Just gave my board presentation using Air Mouse on iPhone as a PowerPoint remote. Wish it didn't drain my battery so fast! #
Saw a whale on my way to the meeting yesterday. #
Sandwich showdown: Mike & Patty's vs. Darwin's. #
RT @norton_fiction: RT @elliottholt "Don't trust anyone who doesn't own books." #
Was at Darwin's and [...]
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-14
Multi-page online articles inflate pageview numbers at the expense of user experience. @NYTimes, etc., allow us to default to single-page! #
"People who say that all this content wants to be free aren’t paying talented people to create it." http://bit.ly/2GAKdP #
Are there any good tech blogs that aren't rabidly pro-technology, if that makes sense? #
I don't [...]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Author websites
I’ve visited countless author websites over the years, but, perhaps, none that I enjoyed more than Rudolph Delson’s. His Frequently Asked Question page alone is worth a click. Why he is no longer linking to it from his homepage, I’m not sure.
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
The price of a logo
I had a few logos made for projects over the past four years. Fortunately, I’ve been able to work with friends on many of them. However, I continue to encounter the misconceptions that logos should be cheap, say a couple hundred bucks, or involve a lot of constant feedback from the client to the designer [...]
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Learning Adobe Illustrator
I like to learn how to use software by finding things online that I want to make and then figuring out how to make them. Currently I’m learning Adobe Illustrator with the help of Smashing’s 50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials.
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-07
The book vs. the Kindle on video from my favorite SF bookstore: http://thegreenapplecore.blogspot.com #
Which publishers sell ebooks in PDF? #
Listening to the new Radiohead song: http://rickyopaterny.com/shorturl/rhns #
What is up with @alleyinsider's endless hatchet jobs on newspapers? It's like an engineer mounting a campaign against ice cream. #
Pixel is such an addictive Flash game: http://www.kongregate.com/games/agame/pixel #
Listening [...]
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Listen to new Radiohead song, “Harry Patch (In Memory of)”
Radiohead has a new song, “Harry Patch (In Memory of),” which Thom Yorke wrote after seeing an interview with Patch, who was the longest living World War I veteran. You can buy the song or listen to the song on the BBC’s site here.
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Artists’ Moleskines
Check out a bunch of artists’ Moleskine journals that are part of the Detour exhibits on this Flickr Photostream.
