The NYTimes un-ironically(?) posted a fairly thorough piece about the current mess over Times New Roman vs Calibri. But they neglected to mention their place in the font spectrum. Times New Roman was originally created for The Times of London…
Have you heard about the massive leak of search API documents from Google recently? There has been much discussion about it online. It reveals that Google has been lying about how they rank sites, possibly to prevent people from gaming…
It’s such a hall of mirrors. I heard about a study finding that search result quality has declined over time, because the sites that rise in the search result rankings do so because of over-aggressive SEO (gaming the system), rather…
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Too much choice is always bad Simon Sinek is my hero: The most social companies: It makes me want a chromebook. Except I don’t need a chromebook: Good business advice from Warren Buffett’s…
Today, while the Boston police are tracking the 2nd suspected Boston Marathon bomber, I clicked on a news story, and had to watch a video ad first. It was for a buddy cop movie with lots of guns, car chases.…
I saw “Argo” on Saturday, which began with a very simple history lesson to remind the audience that the US engineered a coup and supported a dictator in order to secure oil supplies, which resulted in unfathomable misery and killings…
This TED presentation shows how we could make windows energy-efficient, get free solar power from any structural surface, and store it all efficiently, or share it with your neighbors. This is highly disruptive technology. “Disruptive” meaning “threatening to current energy…
I create brands, logos, slogans. And as a professional, I think this lawsuit that Chick-fil-A has brought against a small t-shirt silkscreener is insanity. Do you think a t-shirt that says “Eat More Kale” could possibly be confused with their…
I was just interviewed on-camera for the show ‘Nitebeat with Barry Nolan’ airing at 7pm tomorrow night (Thu 2-2-06). The topic is offsetting your carbon emissions, and the trend toward trading the right to pollute. It’s on Comcast cable, and…