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.
Posts under ‘Learning’
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…
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…
Final Cut Editors: Final Cut Users Groups Network – Super Meet Issue #3
Hey all you FCP editors out there…The Final Cut Pro User Groups Network has just issued the Super Meet Mag issue # 3:
http://www.fcpugnetwork.org/supermag/2009/index.html
Mashable Social Good Conference: Livestream
The Mashable team is streaming their conference in NYC today. Thanks guys…
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 Video: How to Type Faster on the Virtual Keyboard
Efficient parsing of the top tips for typing more effectively on the Apple iPhone virtual keyboard…thanks Howcast.
Video: Google Wave – Is it a Killer App?
I’ve just watched a video from Google IO 2009, where Lars and Jens, the guys who created everyone’s favorite map tool, Google Maps, have just unveiled Google Wave.
Personal Milestone: The Dalai Lama is a follower of mine.
I don’t put a lot of stock into the quantity of Twitter followers…but having people opt in is somehow both comforting and reassuring…however receiving the note from Twitter that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is following me is humbling…and somehow provoking of thought…his presence in my electronic or online life now gives me new questions as to the use of social networking technology as a tool for introspection as well as communications.
