Robert Denton - web strategist and designer

It’s that time which always reminds me of:
Room 222 theme song

I’m a fan of Seth Godin’s thoughts put forth in “Purple Cow” and want to read The Dip.
The Dip seems along the lines of The 4 Hour Work Week but focused on different aspects of the same ideas. Having read neither of them this is based on what I know of each book. Suffice [...]

Vote for Andy Sokoloff!
I know Andy and his wife Elizabeth. They will be a great asset to the town of Brunswick, so much so I wish they lived in Portland!

We have a third baby now.

We surprised our two children with a puppy. We’ve been talking about getting a dog for over a year and the planets finally aligned. It means a lot more work but in the end it’s great to have little Sigo around. He’s a wonderful mellow pup with spirit.
The name Sigo [...]

“On our April snow day, with classes canceled, 98% of the school decided to start drinking. The chem free freshman hall had other plans, as they barricaded East Hall residents into their dorm with two huge snowballs.” (from CollegeHumor)
A great shot of one Spring 2.0 activity on the Bowdoin campus. The poster of that image [...]

Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill spoke at Bowdoin College, a liberal arts college in Maine. He is the class of ‘74 at Bowdoin — and gave a talk entitled “A Report from teh Denuclearization Talks in Beijing”.
Should be an interesting talk to listen to…

Bowdoin College has incredible students and resources for them. In late spring the student it-cio advisory council committed to building a real portal like page for students to use — you know, one that’d be comparable to what you can get at Yahoo, Google, and many more places!
The basic requirements/goals were: customizable and personalized [...]

Mark Mulligan – More shots at Apple

Another wild card that could upset the Apple cart is EMI (again) and Warner’s negotiations with YouTube over potentially having free music video content available funded by ad revenues. Apart from this being another indication that premium paid content models are still failing to make up meaningful ground [...]

Tom Waits clips at NeedCoffee.com
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About Blingo
A chance to win prizes via your search activity… helps if you have a group of people. Social software written into a marketing scheme… interesting.
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I’m sold! Woodflame bbq looks like a great alternative to the big, ugly, old gas grill soiling our patio or clogging our tiny garage. Uses hardwood [...]

HOTSOUP.com
I am less impressed with this top-down approach to creating citizen opinion than I am with Campaigns Wikia:
http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Campaigns_Wikia
…which is from the founder of WikiPedia. Besides, HotSoup gave me an .asp error on their little “tell us your opinion” widget. Bad mojo if you can’t handle setting up a simple web form. I tried [...]

Why Email is Broken
What I mean by silo’ed is that email traps information into personalized, unsharable, unsearchable vacuums where no one else can access it – the Email Inbox. Think of your Email Inbox as a heavily fortified walled garden. Not mentioning the difficulties many have accessing their Email Inbox outside the corporate [...]

Apple: Frugal to a Fault?
“Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they’re going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don’t have and haven’t historically done,” says Van Baker, an analyst who covers the company for industry research group Gartner. [...]

Birds – Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Excellent site!
If you click through to a story there is a link for an Interactive Analyzer.

ALAMEDA COUNTY / Blind student sues Target over firm’s Web site / It lacks software that allows access to visually impaired
Basically an online retailer is being sued because their site does not meet accessibility standards that allow a blind person to participate. I knew it would be coming sooner or later.
So where does that [...]

Photo Matt – About.com switching to WordPress (WP)

This is huge. When I learned that About.com used MovableType (MT) for their CMS it was ammo for using MT more around our site to allow for easy content updating. The differences between the two are enormous and I’ll still use MT where I want the logic of [...]