I love the MN design community. It’s filled with people that go out and build stuff to scratch their own itch. The latest example of this: Websota – built by the FiveTechnology team 1.
“Aaron Weiche of Five [Technology] wanted a home for the great web design work close to home here in Minnesota.”
There are [...]
What makes a weblog?
For me, the following:
Posts with publication dates
Search
Feeds
Clean, descriptive, human readable URLs
Supports one of the weblog APIs (Blogger, MetaWeblog, Atom)
So I’m a Flash Guy, but here’s my current dilemma.
Currently I have no site of of my own. I used to host JakeFreeberg.com off a machine at home, but that’s just a bad solution. It allowed me to play with WordPress and MovableType installs and learn a few things, I really need to put some [...]
Tired of trolling and losing track of the people you’ve offended?
coComment + the Troll Cap.
Tell me and TechCrunch when you whip mash it up.
An interesting blog authored by two lawyers “devoted to the RIAA’s lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people”.
Some mighty single guy living in Minneapolis gave MNteractive.com an honorable mention for best Twin Cities blog 2005. Nice.
Thanks anonymous mighty guy.
Back in the day, 37signals was a web design and development company – like any number of other places in downtown Chicago (and elsewhere). Jason’s done an excellent job of offering interesting products and services to market. My personal favorite was their $2000 one-page redesign. Brilliant.
Like all service firms should – 37signals is migrating [...]
I’ve read Signal vs. Noise for a good chunk of it’s 6 years. More in it’s early days, less lately – but it’s still in my aggregator. Jason Fried and the gang and 37signals has always made me think and MNteractive gets a good chunk of traffic from our comments over there.
A couple days [...]
I read through Jakob Nielsen’s Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. As someone with a couple of weblogs, I only agree with two of his “mistakes”. The rest of them have valid, strategic uses.
No Author BiographiesSure, a general “I like puppies and long walks on the beach, I dislike mean people” is useful. We’ve [...]
Let’s review the 7 Mistakes for your First Week Blogging.
Sure. A custom theme. Um, WordPress themes are easy enough to find and switch out. Yes, part of me cringes a little when I see the default WordPress theme, but honestly I still read the first post. If I like it, I shoot straight for the [...]