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Times Square Ball app

Now you can ring in the New Year on your iPhone. The Times Square Ball app includes a live feed from the festivities in… Read More

Thoughts on “On Writing Well”

“The most important sentence in any article is the first one.” And that’s why I’ve opted to lead with this snippet taken from William Zinser’s… Read More

Kris “Kindle”

Forget Kris Kringle, The Kindle e-reader ruled this holiday season. But before diving into some impressive statistics, first consider this… My mother got a Kindle… Read More

Law 5: Differences

I’m reading “The Laws of Simplicity” by John Maeda. I plan to provide a summary of each Chapter, or as the book refers to them,… Read More

Law 4: Learn

I’m reading “The Laws of Simplicity” by John Maeda. I plan to provide a summary of each Chapter, or as the book refers to them,… Read More

TV Advertising Gets Another Shot

  The “Targeted TV Ads Set for Takeoff” article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal by Suzanne… Read More

adding buttons to tinyMCE in WordPress with a plugin

One of the more difficult things about implementing a website in any CMS is predicting the difficulties and mistakes your users are going to encounter.  If… Read More

The Brand Gap, Lesson 1.

My wife has been doing a lot of reading lately, and one of the books she found caught my eye immediately. It’s called The… Read More

Better Design Feedback.

Mule Design just posted an excellent guide to giving better design feedback, which is an excellent primer for clients to help us help them. I… Read More

Best and Worst College Web Sites for Blind Students

Having just helped out production team on a website that needed to be 508 compliant, designing websites for the visually impaired can be a problem not easily… Read More