Let’s Put the Cat Back in the Bag

First, go read Microsoft Software Will Let Times Readers Download Paper over on The New York Times site. Then, after wiping your eyes of the tears inspired by laughing at such foolishness, come back here. That article demonstrates so much of what is wrong with Big Media, and illuminates some idiocy on Microsoft’s part as [...]

Media – Wide-eyed and Anxious

One of the benefits of working at a services firm such as Adaptive Path is that you really get to have your fingers on the pulse of what is happening in business. For the first few years after starting our company in 2001, many of our projects were marketing-communication sites (i.e., brochureware), because even in [...]

75

Is the number of movies I’ve seen on this list.

Communicating Concepts Through Comics

Today I attended Kevin Cheng and Jane Jao’s “Communicating Concepts Through Comics” presentation. Download the slides [5MB PDF] in order to follow along with my notes… ===== “What is community?” – On a project, they wanted to add community to local service – Unfortunately, different people had different ideas of community — some thought message [...]

Wacky truncation!

My colleague Laura is concerned with the dumping of bunnies that happens after every Easter. Unfortunately, her call for assistance gets cut off in iChat…

When is it appropriate to appropriate?

In keeping with my suggestion that it is the university of Web 2.0, students at the information school at Berkeley recently had a lunch time discussion on designing for appropriation. The notes from the discussion are available, and make for a worthwhile read. The discussion was spurred by a question aired at the DUX2005 conference: [...]

Meeting My Maker

Mesmerized by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (Photo from here.)

Going Back To South Park, Gonna Have Myself A Time

The SF Chronicle published a story on the San Francisco neighborhood called South Park, prominently featuring Adaptive Path and many of our friends. When Adaptive Path moved to the neighborhood in October 2004, I intended to write about it. It sat in my “drafts” folder since then, but the Chron’s piece is encouraging me to [...]

Design Meme: Artifacts from the Future

Over the past month or so, I’ve noticed a thread of discussion in the design community on the value and power of crafting artifacts from the future. It first came up on a project at Adaptive Path. We’re working with a Big Media client, and encountered difficulty communicating our design vision. The client has offices [...]

What does it say…

that none of my contemporaries all over the internet pointed me to William Safire’s interview of Jesse Sheidlower, wherein the origin of the words “weblog” and “blog” are discussed, and that it took an email from my dad to alert me to it. Click that link, and head to 36:40. [UPDATE: It seems that they [...]

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