There has been a lot of finger-pointing going on in regard to the decline of the personal blog. Some blame Facebook, others point to the barrage of content from tutorial/list zines and everyone is quick to accuse Twitter. I could easily blame my own post count on any of the…
Last week I attempted to unsubscribe from a company’s email list only to discover that there was no unsubscribe link or instructions anywhere in the message I had received. It wasn’t really a big deal, but as someone who sends email campaigns myself, it really irks me when there is…
Dear Cyberwoven Coworkers: The Plague® has become a common occurrence in our office that can easily be avoided by washing hands often, not contacting hands with face, and avoiding mouth to mouth contact with coworkers. The Plague® is a widely available infection that provides proven inefficiency and project latency in…
When Amy and I bought our first place back in 2005, we knew it had awesome potential, but that it was majorly outdated. The picture on the right shows what it looked like sometime in 2007. Over the years, we’ve replaced all the builder-grade 70s fixtures, removed wallpaper, scraped popcorn,…
Yes, I know. We’re a good way into the month already, but I wanted to show my support for National Breast Cancer awareness month by going Pink for October. I’ll probably put a link in here soon to switch back to the trusty blue theme. For the mean time though,…
A few of my coworkers and I have recently gotten hooked on a little location-based iPhone game called Gowalla. The game was created by a company called AlamoFire (formerly known as Firewheel Design) which is well known for the popular PackRat game on Facebook. While there are a few similarities…
Last night I had the opportunity to do a video chat with a journalism class at the University of Florida. The class, taught by Dave Stanton (@gotoplanb), is called Applied Interactive Journalism and my book is required reading. I never intended the book to be used in classrooms, but it…
I’ve attended SXSW Interactive every year now since 2007 and I’ve already booked my hotel room for March of 2010. Is it because it’s the biggest conference of it’s kind? Not really. Because I like to use my vacation time to learn new web skillz? Uh, no. It’s because of…
I got an interesting question this week via email: I just read the July issue of Laptop magazine and Mark Spoonauer (editor in chief) said that netbooks are here to stay. With this trend do you think the 1024×768 res will be reduced to 800×600 to capture this growing market?…