I can understand why graphic designers would hate eBooks. After having spent years honing PageMaker, Quark or InDesing skills, you now have to re-shape that set into a Kindle or iBook format, or grow new skill limbs for even developing your own eBook reader apps…However, IMHO, a talented designer is a talented designer, and that sensibility is hard to come by…I would rather have design sensibility than Flash skills and I would cite, Jim Coudal/Coudal Partners, and they might disagree, as one of the best examples of a team that has evolved from that neighborhood of near straight-up graphic design, into something more.
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I Heard You Were in Haiti – What Was That Like?
I was indeed in Haiti for about a week, late January/early February on behalf of my employer the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)- my role was to help document and bring voice to IFAW’s efforts for animals in Port-au-Prince. While I had worked in this capacity during our disaster efforts before, notably in Iowa during their floods two summers ago…as everyone knows, this response was vastly more dire for the human population on the ground…
Bouv’s Apple Tablet Round Up – Why the Splashy Color Invite?
[Apple's invite image for 1.27.10 ] In just over a week, on January 27th at 1PM EST at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco to be exact, Apple may end literally years of speculation surrounding their creation of a tablet-style consumer device. Will it be a full-fledged computer? An e-Book reader? A giant iPhone with video conference capabilities? I have some thoughts…
The 2009 Holiday Mix.
It’s been a long year, filled with turbulence and challenge…and, as always, music. I’m very happy to present to all, the 2009 Holiday Mix.
Microsloth Leading the Sheep to the Slaughter – “Look, we have stores too!”
Microsloth, in yet another un-original move, has opened their own retail presence.
Congratulations, that’s 1000 stolen business plans! Most people who inhabit the spaces that will contain the stores may become confused when they purchase their computer from a Microsoft store, and then accidentally wander into an Apple store looking for support…oh well…
Google Wave Invites Today: Fingers Crossed!
Read Write Web is reporting that Google will send out 100,000 Google Wave invites to an undisclosed qualified subset of the roughly 1,000,000 folks who had signed up for one…I was one of those folks, I’m hoping to be included in that subset…anyway…I also posted about Lars and Jens keynote…and the potential impact of the tool…
Skip Gates Incident + Gay Marriage Arguments = Colossal Waste of Time.
Ok,…now I’ve been watching this story in bits and pieces since about 5:00 PM on Tuesday afternoon…and I have to say…what a colossal waste of time and with such poor performances all around…the Cambridge, MA police dept…Skip Gates, President Obama, Robert Gibbs, I mean the list is growing by the minute…and all over what?
iPhone: The Palm Pre is here. *Yawn* – for how long?
Ok, I’ve been reading every damn post, article, tweet, and blog post re: PALMs new Pre smartphone. And have come to the conclusion that the Pre will not be an iPhone killer out of the gate. Here are my reasons:
