Mandy Brown has a great post that concisely describes the dilemma of advertising and reading on the web. The disruption of the reading experience by advertising is an issue I feel incredibly strongly about and one that has prompted me to adopt a variety of strategies, from avoiding particular web sites altogether to using tools [...]
I have a (slightly pretentious1) story for why legitimate customers dislike DRM. It is a story in four parts. I. Whereupon Our Hero Does the Right Thing One of the most successful PC games of all time is Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft. It has sold approximately nine million copies since it’s release in 1998. It is, [...]
Since I frequently get reactions to things I write about on this blog (much to my surprise) I thought in light of my failure to get a response from Relic Entertainment I’d write them a letter and publish it here. Letters don’t usually have titles but if mine did it would be called, ‘Hi, I [...]
This is a question. I use Microsoft Word almost everyday. I have a copy on my computer at home and another on my computer at work. Nearly every single person I know has a copy of it. It is the single most prevalent application I can think of that doesn’t come bundled with an operating [...]
So I like Twitter. It’s a source of links, small nuggets of wisdom and also a place where you can vent to the world about whatever’s got your goat without needing to write it up all good and proper so it won’t look out of place on your otherwise tidy blog. (I expend literally hours [...]
There are other things that I planned to write about but since two of the great loves of my life (advertising and technology) came together recently it seems as if I’m being called. I refer to Microsoft’s ‘Life Without Walls’ attempt to rebrand Windows and my reaction to it. (Seriously? That’s the name of your [...]
I’m disappointed with Mathew Ingram. I respect his opinion and his blog has become a regular visit in my evening browsing. I’m disappointed because Ingram has added his voice to the chorus of global digerati agog at a piece in the Atlantic suggesting the Internet might not be awesome. The piece is written by Nick [...]
A few weeks ago I posted up some icons for Gmail and Google Calendar. The Gmail icon was the fantastic work of Chris Ivarson and because at that point Chris hadn’t made a Google Calendar I used the excellent one Tim Malabuyo had turned out. I’ve got good news! Chris has been hard on the [...]
I don’t usually bother posting links here. I’d prefer to use this space for my own writing than spam you with posts raving about the latest YouTube video doing the rounds of email inboxes. (My Facebook Posted Items feed is there for that.) Still, there’s something about the site Muxtape that requires a little more [...]
One of the main reasons I switched to iTunes (and the iPod) was the way it handled podcasts. I listen to quite a few podcasts and this would be intensely frustrating without a setup that automatically handled the downloading, copying and deleting of these files. For the most part iTunes is pretty good at what [...]