Signal Response

It’s Getting Hot In Here

2010-09-01T12:55:45Z

Bjorn Lomborg, asshat or the biggest asshat? Discuss.

Blaze

2010-08-31T12:13:39Z

The Blaze, a news site from Glenn Beck. From his introductory letter:

The Blaze will pursue truth. Of course we will make mistakes. Honest mistakes. And we’ll be quick with corrections. We intend to earn your trust and keep it day in and day out with hard work and a lot of transparency.

I look forward to the hard hitting conspiracy theories to come from The Blaze.

Lake of 1000 Islands

2010-08-24T13:04:28Z

Island and Lake Combinations, including Largest Lake on an Island and Largest Island in a Lake on an Island. (Via Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival.)

Link Bait and Switch

2010-08-19T21:46:38Z

Amy Thibodeau on Fast Company’s Influencer Project and what it attracts. I’ll say this, within my stream, I didn’t once see anyone I follow link to this. Not one. I find it pretty astounding that I don’t follow any Influential people though, without any “social media marketers” in the mix, I must run with the wrong crowd.

Dimensions

2010-08-17T11:41:38Z

The BBC’s Dimensions is beyond clever. Enter your postal/zip code to see an overlay of the size of the event, place or thing right where you are. Great idea.

Mayyors

2010-08-13T19:54:31Z

Henry Owings says goodbye to Mayyors who’ll be playing their final shows next month. Seriously, in the past couple of years, these guys are the only thing that have blown my mind. Sad that they’ll be packing it in.

The details are the design

2010-08-11T12:52:50Z

Mike Rundle posts his response to this Dribbble shot heard round the world. Worth the read.

A Tale Of Two Cities

2010-08-05T13:19:56Z

Tim Bray on the reporting of the recent Android security scare & iOS security issue. One of these issues was nothing and Android got nailed for it, the other is/was a pretty substantial security risk and it got glazed over. Embarrassing.

Your Strategy

2010-08-03T14:14:14Z

What the fuck is my social media “strategy”?. As the site says: “Making it up so you don’t have to”, and seriously, let’s all just admit that you’re making it up. Social media “consultants” and “gurus” are the “SEO professionals” of the current wave. Regurgitated marketing babble peppered with common sense. Curious about the next wave of snake-oil on the web? Pay attention to Content Strategists*. I need a portfolio to display at least some proficiency at what I do, it seems a lot of Social Media consultants only need their word and a few re-tweets of Seth Godin.

*not to suggest that content strategy isn’t important just that it’s the next to be pounced on by consultants and professionals.

The Glass House

2010-07-20T13:01:12Z

From the Glass House Conversations site:

Each Monday, a host posts a provocation. People have only five days to respond. The boundaries of the conversation are set to just one week, ending on Friday evenings. After comments have closed a “Final Word” is chosen from the replies.

Stunningly beautiful and thoroughly engaging. Worth bookmarking.

Andy Hummel

2010-07-20T11:27:29Z

Andy Hummel, bassist for Big Star has passed away at the age of 59. Shitty year.

ExpressionEngine 2.1 Released

2010-07-13T14:50:44Z

ExpressionEngine 2.1 has been released, signalling the end of the 2.0 beta. This release clears up a bunch of bugs and reveals a whole new front end to the ExpressionEngine site. Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain again helms the redesign along with Simon Collison, Ryan Irelan, and Jason Morehead. I haven’t installed it yet (scared) but I like what I see in the changelog. Also worth mentioning, EllisLab is now offering a 30 Day Money-Back Guarantee. With the introduction of this guarantee, the encrypted trial has been done away with which was apparently fraught with issues. Worth a try if you’re looking for a CMS that doesn’t suck.

Bring Out Your Dead

2010-07-07T13:19:10Z

Or, alternately, dig them up and keep them in your house and garage. Yuck.

optimizeLegibility

2010-06-29T15:06:05Z

Anthony Kolber gives you the breakdown on cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures via optimizeLegibility. I had no clue. I am incredibly stoked.

Detective Comics

2010-06-23T14:30:57Z

Well it’s about time. The DC comics app for the iPad is now available. So, you know, I’m excited.