Archive for October, 2005

Newspapers Die By Their Own Ignorance

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Most local papers have become jokes since their budgets have been cut to the point of being nothing more than corporate bulletin boards and vehicles for the hilarity that is Ziggy while things like investigative journalism have become ‘expensive’ luxuries instead of defining pieces that create a legacy.
With that in mind, when I read that [...]

Xara Will Be the Open Source Illustrator, Looking for Experienced Mac and Linux Developers

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Xara is a little known but absolutely incredible graphic design application. If you’re on Windows and you’re looking for a full featured and unquestionably fast graphics program at a great price, Xara is it. For $79, you will not find a better piece of graphics software.
The great news, and I mean really really [...]

Engadget.com Bought by AOL,
Immediately Stops Working

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

I noticed tonight that Weblogs, Inc. got bought by AOL. If you don’t know, Weblogs is the company behind Engadget and other blogs that basically post regurgitated press releases and content from other ‘lesser’ blogs as roughly 99% of their content. That said, when I tried to get to engadget to show someone, [...]

August Wilson Public Viewing on Capitol Hill Today and Tomorrow

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

August Wilson, an astounding playwright and citizen of Seattle, died a few days ago and it looks like he was kind enough to allow for a public viewing both Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. I can remember seeing Two Trains Running in New York as a kid and walking away with quite an [...]

Marketing 401

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Sometimes marketers get it exactly right like this ps2 advert spotted in France.