December 10, 2008 – 12:04 pm
As the ripples spread from Chicago’s latest corruption drama, the community news site Windy Citizen is trying some innovative, fun approaches to online coverage and commentary. They did this using free online tools that anyone can use.
Here’s what one of these tools can create:
More about what Windy Citizen is doing on this front…
November 4, 2008 – 6:37 pm
Say it ain’t so… The killer election site FiveThirtyEight.com runs on the megacrap program Blogger? Major D’oh! moment.
August 12, 2008 – 5:43 pm
If ANY web site should have a mobile-friendly layout that automatically loads when accessed by a mobile device, it’s public transit sites.
Seriously — people want to use transit sites on the go! That’s kind of the whole point of transit.
My local transit agency is RTD Denver. Go check out that site. It’s hard enough to [...]
August 12, 2008 – 11:43 am
I’m experimenting with the new WPtouch iPhone-friendly mobile Wordpress theme. Here’s a generic illustration of it, from creator BraveNewCode:
Hey, iPhone and iPod Touch users: What do you think? Is this an easier way to access Contentious.com on those devices? Please comment below (if you can stand typing much on that touchscreen keyboard!)
Lately, nearly everywhere I go people remark on my transparent red plastic laptop case. It does look pretty cool, I think. It’s just two clear pieces of plastic that snap on easily, with cutouts for ports. (However, if you want to pull out your battery, you’ll need to pop off the case.)
The anodized aluminum of [...]
OK, this isn’t my personal idea of cell phone nirvana, but I love it when designers start fantasizing…
Thanks to TechGRL for the tip!