In Commonwealth magazine there was an interesting article about how the very best ownership model for newspaper could be owned by a non-profit foundation. In the article Dan Kennedy writes… “Ownership, though, remains a hot topic—not just in Boston, but nationally. The Times Company, like Gannett and McClatchy, is a [...]

Onthe lonely plains of Kansas where Ellington CMS first appeared as the brainchild of Adrian Holovaty and Rob Curley made a name for himself comes the new ultrasimplistic redesign of LJWorld.com. Simplicity is good, but is this too far?

I took the 2007 Alistapart web design survey. Have you?

As students in my Online Design class embarked on their final project, I lectured on the overall site planning process and working with a client. Monday by noon posted their site planning process focusing on what questions to ask your client. The more web sites I freelance, the more I [...]

In the news today, the train at the Memphis Zoo lost its last car, then the car derailed and flipped. No one in the train was injured, but several riders were transported to the hospital. I remember riding the train at the Memphis Zoo (they have nice site with a [...]

My wife thinks MSNBC use of the Virginia Tech shooter’s photo is irresponsible. I’m not completely in that boat, but I could be persuaded to climb on board. The irresponsible argument chases down the possibility of copycats and the feelings of the families and those close to the victims. On [...]

At the National Association of Broadcaster’s convention in Las Vegas Adobe has announced their new Adobe Media Player. Unfortunately when I think of Adobe Media Player I think of Windows Media Player meets Acrobat reader. Not very pretty. I think Flash works pretty well for transparent, cross-platform video playback.