Article Introduction to Podcasting, Part 1: What is a Podcast? published on March 30, 2009 This is the first in a short series of posts examining podcasts: what they are, where to find them, how they might benefit your website, and how to make your own.And, just so you know that I know what I'm talking about, my own podcast is currently in its fourth year... Read Now About
Article How fast are we advancing? published on March 30, 2009 Excellent video I came across. It really makes you wonder how we ever got to where we are so quickly. If this video interests you, please also read Chris's blog about Digital Conservation which also has some eye-popping statistics. Read Now About
Article Converting special characters and symbols to html published on March 28, 2009 Ever wondered how to add a Registered Trade Mark symbol → ® or a copyright symbol → © to your web page? Here is a list of common signs and symbols and how to convert them to html. Read Now About
Article A Look in to My Google Reader by Christopher Butler on March 27, 2009 Every now and then, I like to look at my Google Reader account and take a big-picture view of what I'm reading. Sometimes I notice surprising trends in my own behavior that I don't notice on a day to day basis. Google Reader's "Trends" view shows me a pretty detailed report of everything I'm subscribed to and what I do with that content... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design A Sense of Place by Mark O’Brien on March 27, 2009 What makes you want to stick around? If you decide to take a walk in the woods on a Sunday afternoon, aren't you more likely to take your time and meander around if you are on clearly marked trails, each with a beginning and end that you're familiar with? This would be in contrast to getting off trail, or lost somehow. When we get lost, our objective becomes urgently clear: get found, and get out. If you all of a sudden find yourself lost in the woods, chances are your walk is going to end up being a lot shorter than it would have if you felt safe and comfortable the entire time.The same is true for websites... Read Now About
Article Andrew James Kerr by Justin Kerr on March 26, 2009 Born at home on Sunday, March 15th at 5:50 a.m. 10 lbs., 2 oz.James is the latest reminder that I work to live, not live to work. Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Information Architecture Workshop by Christopher Butler on March 26, 2009 Last Tuesday, our Project Management team gathered at Carrboro Creative Coworking to spend a few hours honing our information architecture skills. We had prepared for this session by re-reading Don't Make Me Think as a group, so our first activity was a ten question quiz on the book... Read Now About
Article Fast Cheap Intuitive by Christopher Butler on March 20, 2009 After I read Emmet Connolly's blog post about creating a book on Lulu.com from all the articles he'd been meaning to read, I thought, "What a great idea. I need to do that." Like Emmet, I had tagged numerous articles with my del.icio.us account with the intention of reading them, but knew that I was probably not likely to actually read them on my laptop anytime soon- or ever. But I was much more likely to read them if they were in a book that I could bring on the bus with me on my commute to work. Of course, I had to name it after my latest catchphrase... Read Now About
Article Newsletter Tracking Stats by Christopher Butler on March 20, 2009 Today I took a look at the tracking data for the newsletters we've sent out over the past year. I was initially interested in seeing how the tracking data might correspond to general categories or newsletter topics (i.e. tools, process, strategy, marketing, etc.), but I realized in trying to assign categories to the past 13 categories that they didn't always line up quite right. There is a lot of overlap in topics. For example, in February and March of 2008, the newsletters were about Search Engine Optimization, which could fit in any number of different categories. The same is true for most of the others. So, I scrapped that approach and decided to just think about some of the top and bottom newsletters and what factors might have caused them to be that way... Read Now About
Article Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web by Christopher Butler on March 19, 2009 From the TED description: "20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together." Read Now About
