Category: business
Make them dance, make them dance.
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Someone could write a study on how moving and changes in marital status can cause a domain to lapse, and that someone could be me.
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On Self-Promotion
You are a shameless self promoter!” he said. I can’t speak to the “shame” part, but for the rest: guilty as charged. Self-promotion may appear revolting, but it’s the only promotion that’s guaranteed in this…
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Dirty Little Secret of Success
A longing for love and approval. That’s the dirty little secret of success.
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Myths and Warnings
Learn what usability testing is and isn’t good for; discover the five warning signs of a bad client relationship (and what to do about them).
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Chicago Sells Out
An Event Apart Chicago has sold out.
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Click My Lit Panel
In “New Publishing and Web Content,” a SXSW Interactive Panel, I will lead publisher and entrepreneur Lisa Holton, creative director and designer Mandy Brown, novelist and Harper’s editor (plus big web geek) Paul Ford, and…
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Happy Cog and Airbag merge
Happy Cog™ and Airbag Industries, two leading and influential web design firms, announce that they are merging, effective today, August 3, 2009. The resulting super-agency will be called Happy Cog, and will maintain studios in…
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Editorial Intern Wanted
We’re looking for one good intern. Experience the publication process from first draft through galleys and launch; learn from industry and community leaders who are funny, smart, and nice.
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In-Box Twenty
What’s inside.
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ALA 284: scaling video, avoiding burnout
Learn how to resize video on the fly. Identify the signs of burnout and learn how to prevent it.
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A new answer to the IE6 question?
Andy Clarke proposes a novel approach to the problem of IE6.
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Customer service, not Ruby on Rails
The secret of 37signals’s success.
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ALA 282: Life After Georgia
Can we finally get real type on the web? Zeldman interviews The Font Bureau’s David Berlow. Plus Stephen P. Anderson shows how the value of beauty in design transcends aesthetic pleasure.