Nihau! Been offline for awhile, due mostly to taking a long and necessary vacation in Kunming and Chengdu, China. Before that was the whirlwind of webby openness at the iSummit 08 in Sapporo, which I’ll hopefully be posting more about soon. While at the iSummit,…
Kubb, pronounced “kobb”, is a traditional Swedish game of patience, tactics, and beer. At least, that’s how I learned how to play it a few weeks ago with buddy Peter Ulrich of natural born friedrichshainer fame. Kubb can look more complicated than it really is.…
After visiting the post-apocalyptic haunt of Louvain-la-Neuve, it was refreshing to see Belgians with a sense of humor. The “Kiss and Drive” signs at Brussels National Airport guide visitors to the passenger drop-off point, where families and lovers bid farewell with a kiss. In a…
When all is said and done, case studies are a rather modern method of information sampling. It wasn’t until the turn of the 20th century during the Golden Age of the Social Sciences that case studies became accepted as a major research methodology. It took…
Here’s webby way to make design-tastic business cards. As Rebecca Froley suggestes, take a visit to Wordle, the strangely named word cloud service that generates impressive typographic layouts from any text. Paste in your blog URL, RSS feed, or whathaveyou, and let Wordle do its…