I draft more tweets than I actually post to twitter. I probably post about 55% of my drafted tweets. I think to myself, “who really wants to hear this?” every time I draft one. Whatever my reasons for hitting “post,” I’ve started asking people this question, and found a[...]
Re-imagining to Curate
Starting this month, I am going to be re-designing some websites for the organization I’ve been working with for about a year now. Re-imagining the site(s) comes at a time of change for our organization, which records and archives lecture materials, making new kinds of knowledge available to t[...]
November 10th, 2009 - 11:05 am § in Blog, Michigan Love
My Guest Essay at Generation Y Michigan
Generation Y Michigan is a journalism project spearheaded by Lauren Silverman that attempts to understand why Gen Yers (like myself) are staying or leaving our mitten, and as I visited the site yesterday morning (after NPR played a story from the site that hit close to home), I decided to write abou[...]
Affordances!
The past few weeks I’ve been getting an education in affordances. This is not to be confused with having Norman’s Design of Everyday Things assigned, followed by a brief discussion, conclusion and let’s move on. Rather, we’ve been getting into the nitty-gritty details of why[...]
October 26th, 2009 - 8:00 pm § in Blog
Sendak Pumpkin
This weekend I took some time out from what has been a busy final semester and carved this Sendak pumkin. This is the first time I’ve carved a pumpkin in at least the past 10 years. Does it look like the guy from Where the Wild Things Are? [...]
October 25th, 2009 - 4:09 am § in Blog
Welcome to the new site!
Welcome! After a period of consideration, I decided to manage my portfolio site with WordPress instead of with Google AppEngine. The decision had to do with several factors, including the nature of the content I tend to update, my desire to work with a simple CMS, and my previous experience with the[...]