August 2010
5 posts
The Ballad of Steven Slater.
I was listening to William Elliot Whitmore’s...
June 2010
6 posts
Hyperbole Much?
In all seriousness - the thought of Tea Parties going global is fun, but I prefer to think of this as a continuation of the global growth of freedom touched off by the images of Iraqi and Afghan women voting in free and fair elections.
Francis and the Lights - It’ll be Better
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Joltin’ Josie celebrating after the...
May 2010
8 posts
Albert Thurston →
A wide array of braces, suspenders, and other accessories for your sartorialist.
DerbyRadio →
Not quite interesting yet. I think they need more prep-time. Good editing, though.
Atom Derby →
A blog written for Atom Wheels, mostly by Shortbus from the Dallas Deception.
cloudcourse →
An open-sourced AppEngine-based application for scheduling courses.
Video JS →
An HTML5 video player that supports Ogg Theora, H.264 & WebM
Divvy →
A Mac application that allows you better control of the space on your monitor a window takes up.
Zassenhaus →
Coffee on bikes! →
January 2010
1 post
Thank You
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
2 posts
There's a (web) App for That
I just officially announced the new RC mobile websites over on the RC for Senate weblog.
I built the iPhone version (which should run fine on Google Android’s browser & Palm’s WebOS browser) using jQtouch. I also posted a slimmed down version for the modern BlackBerry browser (and I included Opera in the auto-redirect for that one).
The Blackberry version also nicely degrades on older...
While Google is an Ally, Most Newspapers Fail to...
I have been idly following the back & forth going on between Google (and, to a lesser extent, other search engines) and the “newspaper” (read: journalism) industry. I saw this in an article this morning on Newsvine:
Yet some publishers don’t see Google as an ally. They contend Google’s prosperity depends partly on its search engine’s ability to show capsules of newspaper stories and...
October 2009
2 posts
Women Ignore Mobile Ads
ReadWriteWeb reports on Brand in Hand’s study of mobile application ads and finds that women are too busy using the apps to interact with ads.
They propose, instead, launching purpose-built apps for clients (like recipes that incorporate Kraft products for Kraft foods).
A more detailed article at AdAge.
Wow (Welcome Back)
I put up a website yesterday. Today I got to see the stats collected by Google’s analytics platform.
September 2009
5 posts
Windows 7 Launch Parties
Cabel Sasser of Panic, a Macintosh Software Company (they Make transmit, which you may have used to FTP files), saw the promo video for Windows 7 Launch Parties produced by Microsoft. THe he made his own:
Throw a Windows 7 launch party!
Business Credit
Larry Cheng writesabout a new web service called Cortera that lets businesses rate how other businesses do (and don’t) pay their bills.
Cheng believes that this puts business credit ratings back in the hands of small businesses in a few ways. Number one on his list:
Firstly, it enables the voice of the small business to be heard in the business credit world. Traditionally, commercial...
Voter Information Data Submission & Validation
The Voting information Project works with states to generate XML files of voter information that can easily weigh in at five hundred megabytes. These files are generated by IT resources in each state and need to conform to the Voting Information Data Specification. The issues this sort of distributed generation brings up range from large file handling and processing, end-user (generator) feedback,...
Managing Multiple Sites with Textpattern on Media...
Upload the new textpattern folder to the /domains/ folder on your Grid Server. Inside that folder you should have sites, textpattern, rpc, and css.php.
Inside the sites folder, create the Sites you want to use according to the README file. Your completed config.php file in the /private/ folder should look something like this:
$txpcfg['db'] = 'dbXXX_signalfade';
$txpcfg['user'] =...
HTML5
HTML 5 is the next big spec release of X/HTML and it has the web industry buzzing. XHTML was supposed to increment to v2, but got bogged down at the w3c and became a spec written in avacuum oftheoreticals. XHTML is now, for all intents and purposes, dead.
Hixie, at the WhatWG, took over the HTML 5 spec/name and has become the benevolent dictator of that spec. Because of this, we’re seeing a...
August 2009
4 posts
Excerpt From an Interview w/ Jim Coudal
Coudal Partners are one of the most exciting and interesting agencies/creative firms/whatevers to come around in years and years (and they’ve managed to maintain for quite a long while now).
Jim Coudal gave an interview to Design Glut:
If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too. People always ask, ‘What is your greatest...
Twitter Postings: Iterative Design
Jacob Nielsen shows why he deserves his credentials (and manages to somewhat return to relevancy) with iterative design and analysis of a tweet.
Using iGoogle again for first time in very long time. I still loooove that theme @wwan & I made.
Little Green Lies
Jason Fried of 37 Signals writes about the little green lies that companies tell on the Signal v. Noise blog.
In this case is trumpeting a product having “98% naturally derived ingredients” really worth it to the consumer? And what is it that they’re hiding with that wording?
July 2009
2 posts
Wishing Well
John Gruber wishes the newspapers well, and then points to how wrong they are (and how wrong at the opposite end of the spectrum, Chris Anderson is.
John then goes on to make the argument that most “new media” folk (for lack of a non-terrible term) have been making.
And its not really surprising that theyre failing to evolve. The decision-makers the executives sitting atop large...
A July 4th in Springfield
I spent July 3rd, 4th, and 5th in Springfield, IL. I invited along a whole slew of friends and it made for quite the weekend. We ate way too much good food, drank way too much excellent homebrew, and had way to many dogs pooping & peeing everywhere. We also made some ice cream in an old crank tub.
The combination of all these things made for an amazing weekend. I can’t thank my friends...
June 2009
1 post
Hanging Out in Boston
I arrived in Boston about 5pm yesterday. Unfortunately, my early flight on AA had been cancelled and they put me an a layover at DCA schedule, so my expected arrival went from 10am to 5pm. This also meant that I missed the American Craft Brewing Festival that Jon had been working at on Friday & Saturday. We decided to head out, eat at Sunset Grille & Tap, and then play some pool at the...
April 2009
2 posts
100 Days Address
Barack Obama’s been in office for 100 days as of today. Hulu (among many other online video streaming providers) is going to be showing it live.
[removed live embed video after the fact]
Movers
Pew says that Missouri had a net gain of about 14,000 last year. According to their study, those gains were of Whites and Hispanics while there was a net loss of Blacks and Asians.
I wonder what this says about the Political makeup of Missouri. I’m inclined to think that this gain is increasingly shifting the landscape purple (from red). Especially as the majority of these movers are coming...
March 2009
3 posts
ACM Presentation
Walker Hamilton speaks to ACM, originally uploaded by interpunct.
I spoke at ACM in Chicago on March 11th. My presentation was about the work I was allowed to be a part of while on the staff of the Obama New Media Team.
OMG!! All my updates in one place! ROFL
wonders how we can make the cultural shift tht allows us to start thinking beynd revenue/profits in order to quantify a successful business.
February 2009
5 posts
I can ride my bike with no handlebars. No fucking handlebars!
is totally rocking out on that new module he’s building for Expression Engine!
is makin’ chili.
loves his new French press.
needs much more caffeine than that currently coursing through his system.
January 2009
9 posts
is ok the road again!
can’t wait for http://recovery.gov to launch.
thinks being a web standards evangalist has jumped the shark (nuked the fridge?)