Robert Denton - web strategist and designer

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!

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…

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. [...]

freesound :: home page

Interesting free sound project. Snips, snaps, samples, cracks, pops… not songs—for effect.

Bowdoin College

Google, why can’t you include Bowdoin College in your index sooner?

We had an incident whereby you deleted our entire site from your index… there was no way to cancel the operation. The remove URL function is not super friendly.

We bought a Google Mini to rectify the lack of internal search engine (we were using [...]

This is the Adobe Help Center window (another “product annoyance” is that Adobe ships with an Opera installation rather than use IE & WebKit). I searched for “corner radius” because I thought the only way to change the radius of a corner on a box was to option-click with the tool and use the dialog.

I [...]

TimesSelect: Overview

Don’t forget to mark your calendars—September 19th is when the New York Times closes its doors on the web. Well, they are calling it “TimesSelect” which will be:

new service from The New York Times providing exclusive online access to Op-Ed columnists, The Archive, Web tools and more.

It was nice knowing you Mr. Friedman, your [...]

Gasoline Price History

Paul Graham on open source and blogging | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

This is a great recounting of what sounds like a fun keynote to listen to.
Here are some excerpts:

People work harder on things they like
The standard office is unproductive
Bottom-up works better than top-down

I hope this becomes an essay because there’s lots in it that’s [...]

Anything But iPod – About
With the iPod there are no decisions to make; you give up your right to choose. You are just another face in the crowd, with the same player and the same service. With other mp3 players you have the right to choose from several different services and with those services you [...]

Copyright Timeline

Since the Statute of Anne almost three hundred years ago, U.S. law has been revised to broaden the scope of copyright, to change the term of copyright protection, and to address new technologies. For several years, the U.S. has considered and acted on copyright reform. The Canadian government is considering copyright reform as well.

A [...]