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2012 New Year’s Resolutions
Write a book Give an ignite talk Publish something 6 days a week Finish my office (floor, walls, desk, bookshelves) Truly learn Ruby on Rails or Python Beat my previous marathon time Grow EDU Snippits to a 1000+ visitor per week website Run a hackathon at Wayne State University Take public transportation to work at [...]
In: thoughts · Tagged with: 2011, 2012, new, newyears, resolutions, years
The #NewNewTwitter in screenshots, my thoughts
Interested in the #NewNewTwitter? I was totally bummed by their “rolling out the redesigned Twitter over the next few weeks” and realization that it could be weeks before I could play with the desktop version. I have been following their changes for some time. By chance I tried their trick of updating my mobile app [...]
In: opinion, thoughts · Tagged with: #newnewtwitter, design, interface, twitter
Why my dog has a twitter account but my daughter does not
I have been meaning to write this post for some time but to be honest time has escaped me this last month. Little things like being the technical director for TEDxDetroit, running the Chicago Marathon, hiring a project manager, hiring a full time developer, and the birth of my first child have kept my attention. It [...]
In: Social Media, thoughts · Tagged with: cecilia, foxy, tumblr, twitter, websites
Image Maps – Ability vs. Appropriate Use
I recently made a comment on an EDU Checkup episode about how the use of image maps was a negative aspect in the code of a website. I promptly got the following comment: I don’t get it. What’s wrong with image maps? Aren’t they still part of the HTML 5 working draft? http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-map-element.html#the-map-element …doesn’t seem like they’re [...]
In: thoughts · Tagged with: html, image maps, opinion, thoughts
Does the honor system still work?
In the age of free music, movies and book at your internet fingertips is there any room for the honor system? What motivates people to pay for anything if there is a way to get it for free? I have been thinking a lot about service the last few weeks, inspired by a book I [...]
In: thoughts · Tagged with: biggby, coffee, express, honor, pay, self-service, system