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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Category Archives: Technology
This Tux’s for you
Lately I’ve been playing around with Linux on my primary WinTel box at home, in thought that I might soon replace Windows XP on my home server with a flavor of Linux. But that begs the question: Which one? I’ve … Continue reading
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Usability of digital editions
“E-media Tidbits”:http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=53888 has an item about the usability of digital replica editions. (See “previous”:http://www.heisel.org/archives/2003/10/29/taking_a_liking_to_digital_replicas.php) While I can’t read German, the overview presented indicated that its seen as an extension of the print version, rather than the Web and that it … Continue reading
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Video ads on news sites
“Editor and Publisher”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com reports that the two “Denver”:http://www.denverpost.com “papers”:http://www.rockymountainnews.com/ have begun “selling video ads”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2016756. I was unable to find any of those ads on the site today, but the “E&P article”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2016756 says that they do *not* start playing automatically — … Continue reading
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Breaking news makes the case for standards
E-media Tidbits has an item about how the San Diego Union-Tribune was swamped as the nation hit their servers to find out about the wildfires. Just a friendly reminder from Waspy the standards bug: Standards-based layouts save you bandwith! Some … Continue reading
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Taking a liking to digital replicas?
The News Hour has a piece about how more users and publishers are taking to digital replica editions. I haven’t personally used them, but I’ve seen demos. I don’t particularly like them. As a designer, I think they suffer from … Continue reading
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