When laid by a learned hand, brush strokes can convey a sense of energy, tactility and humanness. These qualities speak to your audience’s subconscious, whispering ideas that words alone can’t convey. In the digital realm, a website with beautiful brushwork is a welcome break from the stark precision of most corporate websites.
Mastering the [...]

My six year old’s best friend is moving to Texas in two weeks, and ever since we learned their family is moving we’ve been planning to order a custom picture book as a going-away present for them. Their going away party is this coming Friday, so today was about the last possible day for us [...]

Although it is fairly easy to create shortened URLs for easier sharing with Bitly and other services, they fail in two aspects.
I want to make a brief disclaimer before I begin. URL shortening service scan certainly be handy when they are required and you aren’t writing on your site. In other words, for general purposes. [...]

I’ve created a new presentation and workshop I’m calling, “Geo-StoryChasing.” I’ve listed a variety of mobile audio, video, and photo sharing options (many supporting geolocation) on the wiki curriculum page I started. If you know of others I should include, please let me know by commenting here. This is the short description for this session:
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The mobile web is huge and growing. No one creating content for the Internet today should ignore it. If you use a WordPress blog, the free WordPress Mobile 3.0 plug-in offers a seamless way to provide a customized, mobile-web friendly interface for your visitors viewing your site on an iPhone, Android-compatible phone, BlackBerry, or other [...]