The Content Strategy Land Rush
29 April 09 | Comments [4]
Joe Pulizzi at Junta42 recently interviewed Simon Kelly from Story Worldwide about Moving from Journalist to Content Strategist. It’s not the first time I have seen content strategy mentioned as a go-to career; Richard Sheffield suggests technical writers make good content strategists too. But what is behind this transition? The busted economy? The social media boom? Other factors combined? Simon’s interview begs a few more questions that content strategists — and content strategist potentials — everywhere may already be thinking about. Continued...
A Study of Textpattern's Admin-side Write Panel
5 February 09 | Comments
The admin-side of Textpattern has changed little in the near five years Textpattern has existed. Outside of a few alterations (organizing preferences, evolving tag builder tools, fixing orthography, and extending the Article and Image tables are a few I recall) the back-office of Textpattern is business as usual. That’s not because the admin-side does not get attention from the community, on the contrary, but the focus on presentation, and the extent of that focus, might be why we have not seen change to the core yet. I offer my two cents on the topic and propose to developers a few ergonomic improvements, if not some interesting design modifications too. Continued...
The Wall Street Fiasco in Layman's Terms
15 December 08 | Comments [2]
I should perhaps be embarassed to say I’ve never been interested in the affairs of Wall Street. I find it hard to take much interest in my own savings account, let alone stocks, bonds and loans. So it’s no small thing for me to say I’ve just read The End, a 9-page article by Michael Lewis about Wall Street greed, the inevitable collapse we are now all sorely aware of, and the reason for it. The article is a must read; especially if you don’t give a crap about Wall Street. Continued...
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