Archive for January, 2009
Westport in January
I was out of town the last couple days. Thanks to WordPress’s fantastic publish date feature, my loyal readers didn’t notice a difference because I still published articles bright and early every morning. Where was I? I went home to visit my family in Chehalis Washington because I hadn’t been there for quite some time. [...]
ASP is Dead – Microsoft Slit ASP’s Throat and Left it to Bleed Out… Stop Trying to Save it.
Note: To preface this article, if you disagree with me I would love to hear your opinion, please leave me a comment with your thoughts on the topic. ASP is dead. I think that all developers currently developing in classic ASP should move to ASP.NET or another language like PHP or JSP. If that isn’t [...]
Obama’s Citizen’s Briefing Book – Fantastic Online Strategy
Obama’s campaign proved that he and his team had a much better understanding of the Internet and its power than any other candidate in this election or prior. Through the Internet Obama was able to disseminate important information and garner huge numbers of donations. Now that he is elected he is using the Internet in [...]
Power.com in Trouble Again
For those of you who read my blog on a regular basis you will be familiar with this story. I have been following Power.com for several months. The company had a great idea but one I didn’t predicted wouldn’t fly, at least not using the methodology they were using. What Power.com is, is a social [...]
My Agency has a Bigger Penis than Yours
Advertising agencies have always fascinated me. I don’t think there is any industry that spends more money trying to impress their competitors. Can you think of any other industry, other than the Hollywood film industry where there are so many meaningless awards? Many advertising agencies spend fortunes creating huge, lavish offices filled with $1500 desk [...]
Is the Bubble on Social Media About to Pop? I Freakin Hope So
I find social media marketing to be a fascinating topic. It is currently the hot topic in most marketing and online circles. Many “social media experts” believe every business needs to be on Facebook, have a blog, and Twitter to be successful. The title “social media expert” itself is often an oxymoron as many of [...]
Design of a Website Effects How Children Process Information
Sorry to those of you who read my blog regularly each morning, some extenuating circumstances kept me making my usual morning post. I know how frustrating it is when my paperboy doesn’t get my paper to my house prior to Cheerios time so I am sure all of you loyal fans were distraught. Moving on [...]
Sacrifice your Girlfriend for a Whopper
Nothing says I love you like deleting your whining girlfriend from your Facebook friend list and now you can do it in style! Thanks to Burger King you can now exchange your useless girlfriend and 9 of her stupid friends for a mouth watering Whopper from Burger King. Note: If you’re not cool enough to [...]
Extend and Enhance your WordPress
WordPress is a fantastic blogging engine and many of my visitors are WordPress users and fans. Today I thought I would spend a little time cataloging some of my favorite posts on using and extending WordPress. Below are 7 posts you can use to help get the most out of your WordPress installation. 10 Killer [...]
We’re Commercial Artists, Not Fine Artists
I stole this concept from my business partner Shawn Davis. It is really a fantastic way of distilling how we feel about the true objective of a design firm. This is a topic Shawn should’ve blogged about on his nearly empty blog biggreenape.com, perhaps he can expand on what I have said when he gets [...]