Category: Misc

2005 was 93% worth living. In 2005, Kris Krug did 10 things, went 56 places, met 135 people, and consumed 10 products.

If news is not in English, did it happen? English was already the lingua franca of science, business and academia. Now English appears to be fast emerging as the media language of choice. Al Jazeera is preparing to debut a 24-hour news channel in English. A TV station in Russia also started Engli

Photography Books for your Coffee Table What better christmas gift to get someone than a book of great photography! So if you’re looking for some last minute gifts for people, here are some of my faves as well as some of the best books of the year as suggested by American Photo Mag.

Quickie Folksonomy Screencast I bashed out this screencast on the basics of folksonomies (requires QuickTime, 19MB). It does not pretend to be a comprehensive or deep account of folksonomies and tagging — it just focuses on a few of the common applications and demos one way these pri

Online Photography Rights: Are You Allowed to Link to Me? This got me to thinking about what my online rights are and I realized, unfortunately, that I have no idea. Are random sites allowed to link to my photos? What if the way that they are using my pics has the potential to be detrimental Read More …

Colette Fisheye by Lomo Viennese purveyors of photo-artistry, Lomo, have teamed up with Parisian concept shop pioneers, Colette, to make a black version of Lomo’s Fisheye camera. The convex lens means a 170-degree field of view that creates distorted pictures using standard 35mm

Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked A large gap exists between the public’s perception of video games and what the research actually shows. A PBS article by MIT prof Henry Jenkins.

Sleep Debt – Time for More Shut-Eye At the end of this study many of these subjects reported feeling a level of clarity, and a quality of awareness, that they have never before experienced in their lives. Now what does that say about our society and the lived experience of the people living

Family Picture Christmas Cards Each year I open my cards with anticipation hoping that this might be the year that I actually get a picture where the family has given up trying to get everyone perfect. Instead the shot is a depiction of what it was really like – someone running into th

The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 So in spirit of the holidays, here is a list of some of the best Web 2.0 software that I’ve come across so far. You may have heard of some of these, but hopefully you’ll find a few nice new Christmas presents under your Web 2.0 tree.

Moving On – Some words that I would love to see retired from my existence for quite some time: If you want to impress me, here are some buzzwords you can try out: “context-free grammar,” “naked women,” “python,” and “can I get you a beer?”

Recovering from Blog-Verload Yes! I just coined a new blog word. Or did I? Let’s see, a quick Technorati search should be able to determine that… Technorati says: There are no English posts about: blog-verload (or blogverload, for that matter) Done and done. I’m the first.

Blogging for the creative crew As an innocent in this new democracy, and as a writer, teacher and artist, I’d like to share with you some of the most pertinent features of blogging that I discovered through our ‘Blogging for creative people’ session, run by Kris Krug.

Bold predictions for the savvy designer, 2006 edition “that Fisher Price look”: “Big buttons, big text, big everything. Yes, it definitely has its place at times. But I wonder if we belittle users with visuals that implicitly say, ‘Hey, you’re too foolish to choose what to do next, so I’ve put a

Web Design and Development Trends for 2006 Designs will soften, with more rounded corners, pastel colours and hinted boxes.” and “2006 is going to see Ruby on Rails development take off in a big way.

Canada.com Redesigns Without RSS Feeds Canada.com recently launched a long-overdue redesign of their website. I’ll let you decide what you think on your own, but I find it way too busy, deeply unusable and just plain ugly. As somebody recently remarked, they went from looking like an early-n

Things I Didn’t Know Before Yesterday A number of people asked me yesterday what I learned at the conference, and I had a hard time answering, not because I didn’t learn anything but because the things I learned were a bunch of small things rather than one large thing.