Mar
26
It Really *IS* All About Me, Mine and Me
March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Flipping through the latest issue of Time magazine (March 30, 2009), I stopped at a page that read in a nice, thick, satisfying, sans-serify font:
‘mine. My Magazine. My Way.”
I took the path offered to timeinc.com/mine and signed up to receive what was being promised as a “publication made just for (me)”. Clicking through landed [...]
Feb
10
New G.I. Bill Promises But Can Higher Ed Deliver?
February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
What is old is new again: in this case, the “G.I. Bill 2.0″ is really just catching up to what our service people SHOULD have been receiving long ago. “This goes a long way toward making today’s GI Bill a kind of equalizer that the original GI Bill was,” said Suzanne Mettler, a professor of [...]
Nov
20
Google, It’s Difficult to *NOT* Love You.
November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I’ve tried keeping an analytical, objective, detached attitude towards Google. After all, it is a multi-gazillion-dollar-a-year company that may very well put my privacy at risk on the ‘net some day. However, as a user & admited lover of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Poodle, etc. - I hate to admit that the new [...]
Sep
11
Great Typography May Not Win You The Election
September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I’m not alone in noting that Barack Obama’s campaign is showing one of the most sophisticated uses of typography during an election year in recent memory. Consistency in the elegant use of the Gotham typeface and the distinctive graphical elements that carry through from print to web to television are a graphic designer’s dream [...]
Jul
22
Tylenol Shown to CAUSE Headaches … “We’re sorry, but we do not support your browser.”
July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Having been given doctors orders to use the Oral Suspension version of Tylenol (bascially bubble-gum flavored goop Children’s tylenol), I headed over to the McNeill site to check out some product info. I’m a happy customer visiting the site on my new Mac running OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 2.0.0.16 … so, NOT quite an antiquated [...]
Feb
8
The Buzz: Create Your OWN Social Network
February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I recently joined the University Webmasters Social Network (http://cuwebd.ning.com/) on NING. The flexibility that Ning, and similar (what I call) “SockNet” sites has big and positive implications for smaller Universities in particular. One-stop centralized do-it-yourself solutions like these can be leveraged in a variety of ways to bring University communities closer together: [...]
Nov
16
I’m In MimoLove
November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I’ve discovered Dino Alberto (discover Alberto’s art) and I am loving it! Just as tasty, I’ve also discovered mimobots and vimbots.
I happily stumbled upon Alberto and Mimobots in a roundabout way: i was looking for USB flash drives, and I hit the mimobot site. WOW! This is so cool! … I am absolutely [...]
Sep
13
iThis. MyThis. Th.s. Stupid Web 2-point-Oh Tricks.
September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
iPod. iMac. iPhone. iGadget. You can even create your very own iName.
mySpace. myAOL. myMSN. myWebspace. myWay.
What is going on? We give an extra vowel (iVillage), then we take away another … wis.dm. flickr. or, even combine both the give and the take –> iStalkr.
and what’s with the extra ‘o’? hoooka? zooomr?
my, oh, my. When [...]
Aug
23
One Laptop Per Child Project Continues to Inspire
August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This project that offers laptops, the XO, to the underdeveloped countries of the world is truly astounding on both a humanitarian and a technological level. A surprisingly well-written and insightful review by a 12-year old appeared in August of this year.
How It CONNECTS
This box connects wirelessly to the ‘net and other XO users [...]
Aug
22
Not Enough People Love Typography
August 22, 2007 | 1 Comment
ILoveTypography.com: This site makes me fall in love with typography with every visit. In my daily toil using Microsoft Turd Word, Excel or just working in code-view all day, I forget about the power of typographic design. In my college days, I remember not being very fond (understatement of the year) of [...]