Posts Categorized Blogging

Infinite Gates

In Blogging, Geek, Internet, Weblogs on 14 February 2006 with Comments Off

A small note to all those staring deeply into their navels and fretting about the role of gatekeepers in the blogosphere.
This is a gatekeeper.

Her name is Dana Barrett and she’s waiting for the Keymaster to bring about the return of Gozer the Gozerian, who will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification […]

Bring on the Ego Charting!

In Blogging, Fun, Internet, Technorati on 17 January 2006 with Comments Off

We released some cool new stuff over at Technorati last night. We now have interactive charty goodness for any keyword search, and we’re handing out the code to blog the graphs. For example, here’s the last three months of the word, oh, I dunno, how about … “Powazek”.

And with that, Technorati ushers in the age […]

Digging in the Dirt

In Blogging, Design, Powazek on 5 September 2005 with Comments Off

Your eyes do not deceive you - do not attempt to adjust your browser. You are looking at the latest redesign of Powazek dot com. I’d give it a number, but at this point, I’ve lost track of which version this is.
I had two goals for this design. First, as much as I love […]

How Tags Happened at Technorati

In Blogging, Folksonomy, Internet, Powazek, Technorati, Weblogs on 25 July 2005 with Comments Off

It’s been six months since we added Tags to Technorati (where I’m Senior Designer), and as it turns out, it was a pretty big deal. So before we get too far away from it, here’s the story of how it came about. From my perspective, anyway.
Firstly and most importantly, Technorati did not invent tagging. We […]

Jon Stewart fans prefer Minima

In Blogging, Design, TV on 14 July 2005 with Comments Off

Today I wondered what people were saying about Jon Stewart’s new Daily Show set. So I did a Technorati search for “Daily Show” “Jon Stewart” “New Set” Desk Couch. The top three results were all within the last 24 hours:

Jon Stewart II: What a Difference a Set Makes
A couch, a couch, my kingdom for a […]

The New New Thing

In Blogging, Design, Powazek, Technorati, Weblogs on 9 June 2005 with Comments Off

Seven months ago, when I told my friends and family that I’d taken a job at Technorati, they all had one thing to say to me.
Cool! But, um, what do they do?
These people weren’t rubes. My tribe are some geeky folks. Bigtime bloggers, hardcore nerds, and computer-enabled professionals all asked me this. And translated through […]

Upgrade Madness

In Apple, Blogging, Geek, Weblogs on 3 May 2005 with Comments Off

So this weekend I upgraded all the Macs in the house to Tiger and I upgraded Ephemera to Movable Type 3. It feels like my geek life has all new clothes. Curious to read what yet another geek thinks of ‘em? Read on.

Redesign madness

In Blogging, Design, Internet, Weblogs on 19 April 2005 with Comments Off

Caroline strips down her old site and relaunches at Each Man. (Aside to Caz: I got the reference.) Tom goes minimal with Plastic Bag. (Aside to Tom: Bold, confident design. Props!) I’d say there was a trend here, except that Matt just took his previously stripped-down A Whole Lotta Nothing and layered on the CSS […]

Come here often?

In Blogging, Geek, Internet, Weblogs on 15 April 2005 with Comments Off

Jeff Veen makes a great comment about intimidating interfaces and I couldn’t agree more. My favorite recent example of this was at Tickets.com. Try to buy concert tickets and this is the first thing you see:

Captchas (those annoying “type that crap from the image in the box, you monkey”) are annoying enough, but the bold, […]

Ephemera Archive by Base Color

In Blogging, Geek, Internet, Weblogs on 14 April 2005 with Comments Off

I’ve been posting photos to Ephemera for over 15 months now (666 photos as of today - creepy!). Any content-based site that runs long enough eventually has to solve the how-do-I-find-stuff problem. Blogs do this with archives by date and category. Others increasingly use search, leaving it to the user to figure out what they […]