February 3, 2010 – 8:26 am
Not only is this an inspiring video, it is beautifully done.
February 2, 2010 – 8:11 am
Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose from Carsonified on Vimeo.
January 31, 2010 – 6:40 pm
In recent weeks I’ve had a seriously hard time convincing paywall advocates of the larger implications of such a move. Why retreat into the old print model? Find new digital business models to replace the flagging print revenue.
To lock content behind paywalls or, worse, keep it offline altogether, merely casts a newspaper’s destiny into the [...]
January 12, 2010 – 8:07 am
I had lost the link to this video of Jason Fried of 37Signals discussing the business of software. It’s a fascinating insight into the Chicago firm’s operations.
Get more 37Signals video.
January 2, 2010 – 10:48 am
Dr. Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, discusses the company’s secret sauce, including developing great teams of people.
December 28, 2009 – 11:17 am
I’m going to sum this up:
Newspapers enjoy a monopoly brought on by the high cost of entry in the form of printing presses and legions of delivery boys.
Internet emerges.
Newspapers shovel their content online without regard to ways to exploit the emerging medium. They view it as another channel/platform for publishing the same content that they’ve [...]
December 19, 2009 – 11:08 am
When I moved into my first house I had a raft of home improvement projects but little money and few tools. The size of each project got magnified by my inability to buy the tools that would have dramatically reduced the time needed while increasing the quality of the work.
Fortunately, as my ambition for home [...]
December 17, 2009 – 11:30 am
One of my biggest problems with online news sites is the lack of innovation in distributing news and information.
Don’t get me wrong. There are some news organizations that are investing heavily in finding news ways users consume news and how best to meet those needs. Notably, the Washington Post does a nice job discussing their [...]
December 16, 2009 – 3:53 pm
Textmate is designed to edit local files. But if your like me, you’re development server may not be your computer or even your local network.
December 13, 2009 – 2:58 pm
Ryan Singer gave a talk on “UI Fundamentals for Programmers” at WindyCityRails in Chicago. The talk covered modeling, breaking apps into screens, visual techniques, flows, and a few coding tips.
UI Fundamentals for Programmers by Ryan Singer from ChicagoRuby on Vimeo.
