Eat Media - Content. Strategy. Design. — In that order. For a reason.
Loving the @eatmedia website, great content and structure.
A Study In Movement
An attempt to keep all of my (Carl Nelson's) random things in one place.
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2010-07-21
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Editors are really valuable, and, the way things are going, undervalued. These are people who are good at process. They think about calendars, schedules, checklists, and get freaked out when schedules slip. Their jobs are to aggregate information, parse it, restructure it, and make sure it meets standards. They are basically QA for language and meaning.
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To complicate matters, as social networks grow, they involve less and less commitment. But, content can deepen the commitment. Organizations can tell an appropriate message through a personality, but they’ll have to show and expand it through quality content over time.
— InfluencERS vs Influence (Or, a Clue to Clout) | Winning Content by Leen Jones
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listening to "2009 ILHC - Lindy Hop Classic: Skye
Killer tune that I’m bopping to while I work.
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Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities. “Active citizenship” is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their community through economic participation, public , volunteer work, and other such efforts to improve life for all citizens. In this vein, schools in some countries provide citizenship education.
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25 Start-Up Mistakes Your Company Can Avoid | innovatrs.com
Good friend and cofounder of @NOLAlicious shares 25 great experiences of how to fail as a startup and his lessons learned from them.
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A List Apart: Articles: Content Templates to the Rescue
Great article on Content Templates (been looking for this)
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Flash Mob in City Hall Park - the folks dancing in the fountain and break dancers sort of make it.
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In Defense of Lorem Ipsum « Karen McGrane
An interesting take on why Lorem Ipsum can be useful and important in the content/design process.
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Content Strategy—that odd amalgamation of Web Savvy, Information Architecture and editorial process that adds up to something infinitely greater than the sum of its parts.
