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ON HIATUS FOR A BIT
i’m gonna take a break for a bit from the site. my attentions have turned to the faction and northtemple... [More]
HILLARY TO SELECT "CAPITAL G" AS CAMPAIGN THEME?
Hillary Clinton, everyone’s favorite pantsuit blonde, is asking voters to practice pulling the lever and select her campaign theme song... [More]
GET YOU SOME SWEET (AND FREE) FACTIONATION
Things are heating up over at your local Faction. This week we released a new shirt... [More]
NEW NIN CLUE REVEALS REZNOR TRIAL, CONVICTION
A new clue in the Year Zero concept has revealed the purpose behind the mysterious numbering system that has link... [More]
INTRODUCING THE FACTION.
A few weeks ago, fully mired in obsession with the Nine Inch Nails alternate reality mess, I started thinking about the Art Is Resistance mes... [More]
RESISTANCE MEETING TURNS INTO FREE NIN SHOW
Tonight a group of about 50 Art is Resistance members, including the select few from last week’s A.I.R. gathering in LA, were gathered using... [More]
NINE INCH NAILS' YEAR ZERO: THE GAME HAS CHANGED
Every so often a piece of art comes along that manages to change the landscape of that genre, or even blast across artistic lines and change... [More]
WHERE'S THE BEEF? (OR WHY SXSW DIDN'T SATISFY)
When I set out to visit Austin, Texas, for this year’s SXSW Interactive, I was looking forward to some real meat – both in the technical pr... [More]
AN INCONVENIENT LIFE OF LUXURY
Interesting news today from the Nashville Electric Service. After Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth’s... [More]
I'M A ROCKSTAR, BABY
I’m up late tonight preparing for an iteration start tomorrow (getting hi-fi prototypes together, writing tickets, finding bugs, etc), and ju... [More]
YEAR ZERO: THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Nine Inch Nails. New album “Year Z... [More]
AN APOLOGY.
I feel it’s time to respond in a more formal fashion to the discussions about my latest post... [More]
SHAUN OF THE DEAD HORSE
This morning I was pleasantly surprised by the announcement of Shaun “The Little Engine That Could” Inman’s new Mint 2.0... [More]
SOLVING DREAMHOST'S FCGI 500 ERRORS ON RAILS
Running four decent sized Ruby on Rails applications – Northtemple, Lynesfam... [More]
A FEW UPDATES
January always seems to be the busiest month. December kicks everyone to the couch with a quart of egg nog and holiday fun and then everyone... [More]
OH, CHRISTMAS TREE, OH CHRISTMAS TREE
Why did you die? Was it so much to ask that you drink the hard water and function as any other normal tree would this month? Slurp it up, di... [More]
CROWD IS ONE OF TOP 10 DESIGNED SITES
Roll over to LAist for Theron Parlin’s Top 10 Best Designed Websites of 2006... [More]
ONE QUICK THING TO UP YOUR PRODUCTIVITY
I saw a rad graphic the other day in a post by Kathy Sierra... [More]
PSAPP'S STICKY SWEET BEATS SOOTHE, GROOVE
I’ve been a solid fan of electronica since the old Jr Vasquez days. Those high school tastes soon gave way to the Chemical Brothers, DJ Shad... [More]
DESIGN FOR A KILLER EXPERIENCE FIRST
I had a nice AHA moment this morning while thinking about a project I’ve been working on. The thing (yet to be named, announced, publicly ad... [More]
WOWOWOW! YOUR WEBSITE COMMENTS SUCK
Lately I’ve grown increasingly tiresome of comments on the sites I frequent. When I do travel past the article to read what others are sayi... [More]
DRINKING THE JEFF CROFT KOOL-AID
Jeff Croft’s readers are drinking the Jeff Croft kool-aid, as seen in his latest post, Bring me problems, not solutions... [More]
CAN'T WAIT FOR: SCHUYLER FISK
One of the best tracks on the mellow soundtrack for The Last Kiss is “Paperweight” by Joshua Radin and Schuyler Fisk... [More]
GREAT DESIGN TAKES TIME (AND A LITTLE BARRY WHITE)
The ability to design is a skill that is very hard to teach. But if you have the skills, it’s even harder to use them to achieve truly grea... [More]
I'VE BEEN SAVED BY A WOMAN (SHE WON'T LET ME GO)
I’ve been drawn more and more lately into music with more of a blues influence. Bluesy, sometimes jazzy, worked into a nice acoustic or elec... [More]
GRIDS MAKE EYES HAPPY: HOW TO USE GRIDS
One of my favorite aspects of journalism back on the old high school newspaper staff was laying out a page. I was Entertainment Editor, with... [More]
TYCHO: A CIRCULAR REEDUCATION
We all have a small handful of cds that have perennial placement in our life’s five disc cd changer. Those desert island cds that somehow s... [More]
THE SIZE OF WEB PAGES IN THE BROADBAND ERA
I set out to design CROWDCTRL with little regard to technology or feasibility. I have found that without technology’s constraint, you can oft... [More]
READ THIS BEFORE YOU JUDGE ON AESTHETICS
This is the site I’ve been trying to wrap my head around for the past year. The ideas and concepts were there, but for a million reasons the... [More]
INFORMATION OVERLOAD
I’m sitting here with my feet up taking a load off after putting the kids to bed and finishing off the garage cleaning that kept me busy this... [More]
SPEAKING OF ADDICTION..
So there are a few reasons why I’ve been slack in posting lately. The impending redesign... [More]
THE VALUE OF FAILURE
An interesting thing tonight, watching the Rose Bowl (and you wondered why no recent articles? football every night since last post.. ). Mat... [More]
MAKIN' IT EASY
The PSP I knew about. It was the XM2Go player... [More]
MINTY FRESH
Since MeasureMap is in a Odeo-like state of neverending private beta, I just added the wonderful Mint stat system... [More]
CORPORATE DRUG DEALING, OR HOW I BECAME ADDICTED TO TIVO
Ok, so we watch tv, alright?! Can’t beat the unwind. At the moment I’m watching a soapy teenage angsty drama-queen rendition of <a href=”ht... [More]
DESIGN REMIX
The current crowdctrl.com design was always meant to be just a clean placeholder for a future design.. But most of you know how hard it is t... [More]
BUY NOW ON AMAZON SEARCH RESULTS
Amazon.com has done some awesome things in terms of improving customer experiences online. Their product pages are f... [More]
NO DIEGO FOR CHRISTMAS!
Caryn came across this post tonight from 2 months ago over on babyblogging.com—“Open letter to Nick Jr and... [More]
COLDPLAY ON CSI AND INTEGRATED ADVERTISING
As stated previously in my Nick Jr post, Caryn and I are not shy when it comes to turning on... [More]
SCRIVS BUILDING ONLINE ROCKAFELLA DYNASTY?
Those of you who are hip hop fans will immediately recognize the photo and reference to Rockafella above. That’s right—the man we all kn... [More]
CROWDCTRL/9RULES CASE STUDY
The 9rules acceptance comes at a great time here at Crowd Control. I’m just barely solidifying my ideas and directio... [More]
9RULES INVITES CROWDCTRL
A few weeks ago when planning this little site, I made a goal to launch in time for round 3 of the 9rules submission... [More]
WANTED: NEW DESIGN INSPIRATION
I’ve been noticing something interesting lately while participating in a few interaction designer interviews. When asked about inspiratio... [More]
NICK JR. AND KID CONTROL
There are plenty of parents who don’t allow tv or cartoons to pollute their children’s minds. I have many friends who’ve thrown out their tv... [More]
WHEN IS MARKETING DECEITFUL?
Interesting find.. Excedrin Migraine contains the same exact active ingredien... [More]
THE FOOD NETWORK = CRAZY DELICIOUS
Let’s talk a little branding. Whose wife doesn’t watch the Food Network? And I would be a liar if I said I didn’t enjoy a little Good Eats... [More]
ETHICS IN BASEBALL AND BUSINESS
Ethics is a massive topic that I won’t even attempt to cover completely in this post. What’s interesting is its impact on business, public i... [More]
MY STUPID MICROSOFT MUG
I got this nice looking coffee mug from a client of mine. He got it at your typical tech conference—shwag, as they call it. It’s got an... [More]
USABILITY OR EFFECTIVENESS OF SODA BOTTLE PROMOTIONS
I started my career interests in advertising, which moved to an interest in journalism and pubishing, on to page design and layout to web des... [More]
WHEN SEARCHING DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
Came across this the other night while ordering a pizza online. Completing normal tasks such as this in the online world is a bit of a crap... [More]
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- A ton of great quotes in t...
- Hillary to select "capital...
- New nin clue reveals rezno...
- I am not a member of an el...
- I blew out my rear car spe...
- recent thoughts:
- A ton of great quotes in t...
- I just can’t think of a ...
- Interesting that usps.com/...
- If shaquille o’neil work...
- I blew out my rear car spe...