The other day someone asked me what I was really interested in. What do I want to learn more about? My answer was everything. It used to be anything digital, but now everything is digital so I want to learn more about it. At first I loved video (and it [...]
Web Principles: Users hate change
If I was going to write book of web principles certainly one of my top ten principles would be Users Hate Change If you’ve been on Facebook the day a change is made you’ve certainly seen it in your news feed. Today, for example, Facebook changed up the contents of [...]
Which browser would you kill?
I spend a lot of time testing web sites and making sure they look right on different platforms, different browsers and just like it’s always been some browsers really make me pull my hair out. Right now, it’s IE 7. Anytime I open up a web site in IE 7 [...]
No posts since January?
January, February, March, April… Wow I can’t believe I haven’t posted since January. Is it true that blogging is dead? I keep saying that blogging is alive, but maybe it’s not. At least this one is on life support. Hopefully, I’ll get back with it.
Visit my church’s new online campus
We’re debuting our online campus at Fellowship Bible Church Sunday morning at 11 a.m. I’ve been working on the launch team on this since around September and will be one of the rotating hosts for the service. Besides the video stream of the service there is also a chat feature to allow [...]
Blast from the past
This afternoon Rex Nelson was announced as the new President of Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities. Ten years ago when I was employed by one of Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities I designed that organizations web site as part of my job. Curious as to what their site looked like, [...]
Predictions of a social media backlash?
In the flurry of New Year’s predictions, I have heard some murmurings of a coming backlash against social media especially from the professional marketing world. A good roundup of these criticisms comes from a column from a Knoxville News Sentinel reporter Michael Silence. The prediction is based on two assumptions. [...]
Which browser do you use?
The latest browser usage reports have google’s Chrome browser being used by nearly one out of every 10 users online with Firefox gathering around a 23 percent market share and IE at 57 percent. When I first saw this report I wondered about regional variations in browser usage, but on [...]
I confess, I’ve paid for online content
It makes me sad to admit this, but I must confess I have paid for online content. You probably have too if you you are among the 65 percent of Internet users who admitted to paying for online content in a new study from the Pew Internet & the American [...]
Predictions for 2011 and beyond
As my first post of the new year, here’s my web, technology and communications predictions for 2011 and beyond. Don’t let me forget to check up next year and see how many I’ve gotten right. Social Media Twitter will stagnate and be recognized as a niche product. Twitter’s web traffic [...]