O’Bannon’s Taphouse tried to friend me on Facebook. I’ve never been there before, but I know they are a local bar. Obviously, this touched a nerve, so I sent them the following message:
Trying to friend me when I have never been to your establishment is a bad idea, and more to the point a [...]
At the last AgileBCS meeting, a really good conversation about management and/or marketing creating tasks without the appropriate resources to back them. This creates a situation I like to call “Promises and White Elephants”. In this situation, someone has promised something to some stakeholder that development knows it can’t possibly deliver on. Development [...]
I was watching a video of the Google I/O conference. In it, one of the speakers said that, “It’s our natural instinct to try to be a genius, but we need to try to fight that.”
They were speaking specifically about the tendency of developers to try to code in isolation, to try to cover [...]
The other day, I was reading this article entitled “What to Do if Your Name URL on Facebook is Gone - And Why You Don’t Want One”. The basic premise was that you could redirect from your site to Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. to establish consistent branding if you were unable to secure the same [...]
Establishing an online presence is not like Armstrong planting the flag on the moon. Hopefully, if you are interested in establishing an online presence, you are interested in carrying on online conversations.
Know What is Acceptable Behavior in Each Platform
Following people you don’t know on Twitter isn’t creepy. Friending people you don’t know on [...]
I was talking to another member of B/CS Bloggers today and telling her about the Twitter tools I use. I figured it wouldn’t be a bad idea to persist that conversation here.
For those 3am epiphanies that I actually want people to read, I use hootsuite.com to schedule tweets for a time when reasonable people [...]
Yesterday at a monthly event hosted by Mayor Ben White of the City of College Station called “Coffee with the Mayor”, the mayors of two cities talked about one potential future of high speed rail in Texas. The two mayors were College Station’s own Mayor Ben White and Temple’s Mayor Bill Jones. The [...]
Teresa Brazen gave a talk at the Big (D)esign Conference in Dallas on Saturday. At the end, someone asked a question asked a question to the tune of, “Do you think there are still so many bad interfaces out there, because not everyone knows that Interaction Designers even exist”?
I tend to think that these [...]
Probably flogging the proverbial dead horse here, but I strongly believe that employers should pay for their employees to go to conferences. Here’s why:
Inspiration/Passion
Let’s face it, no matter how good your job or how great your boss, work can let the air out of your tires from time to time. Passionate people are [...]
Interaction Designers could do a lot of good in the world of Open Source Software. I’m not saying that there aren’t already some of us out there working on Open Source projects, but I feel that having some OSS cred under your belt should be industry standard resume fare.
IxD folks have a lot of [...]
