Category: Misc

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.

Why We Love JPG Magazine: Photography is Not a Crime We are not terrorists. We are not dangerous. And we are certainly not a threat. For Issue 5, we’re asking you to go out in public and take photos. Insist on your rights as a photographer. Shoot where people tell you not to. Talk to Read More …

The Dogs Part of the Equation So, perhaps you were wondering why this geek conference I’m at was called Blogs N Dogs? Well, wonder no longer because I’m here to tell you that today I went dogsledding with my fellow geeks. And jaysus murphy was it ever cold.

Greetings from Banff Right now in Kris Krug’s room there are 7 people, 8 computers and quite inexplicably, a double turntable with a mixer. This is going to be fun. We just got into Banff this afternoon and the mountains are big and the temps are low, like single digits.

Welcome to BlogsnDogs The faculty and their guests are almost all here and Robert Scales confirms that yes, we are all geeking out. In proper journalistic form, Travis Smith has some numbers on the run up.

The Quest to Acheive Buzzword Compliancy …will I really have to start referring to things like my DLA? Or my PSP? In the middle of sentences as if everyone knows what I’m talking about? (Which they would, here at Blogs N Dogs.)

Blogs n Dogs – Geeking out in kk’s room Robert Scales testing out Odeo podcasting suite in my room at Blogs N Dogs.

Testing Odeo – Blogs and Dogs, Banff Just a lil test of the new Odeo Studio in browser podcasting tool built in Flash. It’s basic functionality seems simple and cool.

Blogs n Dogs – Faculty Geeking out We had a long day of travel

Off to Blogs and Dogs Long underwear? Check (though I had to go buy it today). Toque? Check. Snobby attitude about the West Coast? Check.

Currently -13 F, but Real Feel is -24 F Holy crap, it’s cold. That’s -25 / -32 Celsius for our metric friends. My narrow Californian ass is confused. It’s 11 pm. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.