How do you get your product or pitch in front of potential customers online? It comes down to “Where are your users?” and for each answer to that question “Can I afford to reach out to them here?” Most people who know the gist of online marketing, but haven’t tried it, will say “Google Adwords!” Unfortunately […]
Have you ever added someone as a “Contact” on Flickr? It’s a confusing experience. The core of the problem is the word “contact.” When I call someone a “contact” I assume that I’m going to… well, “contact” them at some point. That’s not at all what a contact is for on flickr, though. It’s really […]
It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t done it. She asked me how I can take the boredom of just sitting there writing instructions to a computer for hours. “Don’t you ever just want to scream?” If I was writing a novel, she’d get it. It’s romantic even… the image of the reclusive writer […]
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for he that is higher than the highest regardeth, and there are higher than they. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all; the king himself is served by the field. […]
This is just a bit of internet mix tape of interesting things I’ve read recently: Little CSS Stuff Newcomers Get Confused About If you’re a pro, it’s easy to forget the confusion you felt when you just started learning CSS. Just for fun, let’s try and remember some of those little weird confusing moments. I’ll […]
HTML5Pattern – A list of patterns that can be applied to many common form inputs To celebrate the 12th birthday of metafilter @mathowie bought the domain of the first site ever submitted: cat-scan.com Very long but good article about keyword research 6 Essential PPC Landing Page Optimizations Lessons From A Rewrite by Rebecca Murphey. I’m always impressed […]
The other day I ran across some very old code and decided to push it up to the interwebs. It’s a game I wrote when I was first learning jquery. That said, I wouldn’t recommend using the code to learn jquery best practices. It works though! Check it out: Wrong to Right – A Word […]
I saw the image below recently and was intrigued. Unfortunately I saw the image without context so I couldn’t figure out what to google to learn more. The other day, however, I ran into it again. Here’s the explanation I found: Robert Plutchik considered there to be eight primary emotions – anger, fear, sadness, disgust, […]
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It was late at night and I was standing in my kitchen, cooking bacon and crying. I was cooking bacon because I was hungry and I had bacon. When those two conditions are true it’s not at all surprising to find me in the kitchen cooking. The crying, however, was new. It had taken me […]