Archive for January, 2009

The Un-Friend

Somewhat related to my last post, lately I’ve reconsidered a number of “friends” on Facebook. I’ve always been a pretty conservative Facebook-er, not one to rack up “friends” in the hundreds. I find Facebook to be incredibly fun and useful in catching up with extended family, far-flung friends and even geographically close friends who I [...]

It’s not the technology, it’s the dialog.

One of my biggest fears is, and always has been, opening my mouth and letting people know exactly how much I don’t know. So, most of the time, I’m a listener. Today’s WSJ article, “Playing Catch-Up, the GOP Is All Atwitter About the Internet,” made me chuckle and cringe. In it, Mike Duncan, chairman of [...]

Progress Rocks

A young woman in my office sent around a link to this video yesterday, with this message:
“Considering what most of us do all day, I thought this was hilarious.”

I’m assuming it was “hilarious” to her, b/c she–like most of us at Imagination Publishing–sits around all day creating custom content for websites and blogs and [...]

Love the New Website

I love the new http://www.whitehouse.gov/ website.

So far, I don’t see any sharing or rating functionality, which would be really interesting here, especially in the blog content. Maybe they’ll add it later.
But the content is great, and the designer and information architect definitely know their SEO (search engine optimization).

HDTV: Cheap

I’m beginning to understand why Circuit City is going out of business. I was there yesterday with about 1,000 other people who dropped by to pick the bones of the erstwhile electronics retailer.
It had been a long time since I’d been there. Not because of the selection; I think most retailers have exactly the same [...]