Dive into the archives.
- Case study: EckhartTolle.com
In December 2007, the team at Eckhart Teachings presented us with an interesting challenge. Eckhart Tolle was presenting his latest work, A New Earth, on the Oprah show. Oprah was not only featuring his book, but was working with Eckhart to create a series of online seminars to help her audience learn how to use [...]
- A little planning, a little funding, and…yoga?
What does it take to become successful? A little planning, a little funding, and…yoga? Let’s put it this way. With all of the changes taking placein our office, the restructuring we’ve undergone, and the amount of CostCo candy we tend to inhale, work was taking its toll. But instead of freaking out, we decided to [...]
- Getting back to the blog
We’ve gone through some massive changes here over the last few months. I’m not going to go into details, because it’s really challenging to explain how we got ourselves into the pickle we did. Suffice it to say that we’ve learned lessons about what makes a good employee and the importance of a third or [...]
- CSS does not = Jesus
CSS is intended to properly style HTML pages. Instead of content trapped in table cells (it was common at one point to layout text and images in invisible tables) and font styles described, “in-line”, CSS is a separate file that defines format across a single or multiple web pages.
To avoid involving style changes when you [...]
- 37signals makes me grumpy
Reading, watching, or listening to anything coming from 37signals sparks many emotions: Anger, envy, respect, disgust, regret, and a general feeling of bewilderment.
I’ve heard many developers claim that they could build Basecamp in a weekend. That’s not entirely true – I’ve built one and getting things simple is not as easy as it looks and [...]
- Downward dog
So Plurk is all about creating karma. I’m not sure I get it.
I’m familiar with the term but I’m not sure how it applies to this particular form of social media.
Let’s look at what increases your Plurk karma: microposting, replying, getting more ‘friends’ and ‘fans’, using icons in your posts, and inviting people to join.
I [...]
- Microfame, micro impact?
We had an interesting chat the other day about being ‘Internet-famous’. Two of my favourite B5 bloggers, Colleen Coplick and Tris Hussey, were trying to list off people they thought were truly famous based on their web impact alone.
Guy Kawasaki didn’t count (because he was biz-famous and book-famous well before he became everyone’s go-to guy [...]
