Hey, I was doing research here!

18 Jul 2006 – 9:20
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (2)

The "what's the worst theme?" thread got slammed shut sometime yesterday. presumably for being overly critical of the service provided here. (queue eye roll) Of course, whichever admin made that decision was presumably attempting to protect the egos of said theme designers. Although i'm sure ...

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Scene vs. Service

16 Jul 2006 – 11:17
By adam | Posted in geekery, music | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Last.fm just brought their new site out of beta, and it is completely awesome. aside from just solving my media center extender issue, it looks fantastic, and gets me my ...

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More Dissent, less community

14 Jul 2006 – 3:33
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (0)

remember this comment? you know how I started laughing because i thought that getting my first comment deleted was amusing? because all i did was suggest 'featured blogs' would incentivise misspelling tags or using oddly named tags. It looks like there's only ...

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Templates vs. Design

12 Jul 2006 – 5:19
By adam | Posted in blogging, design | Also tagged | Comments (5)

further musing on the licensing and rationale behind making templates, via coyote's post:

i'm now really bugged by pro-bloggers complaining about the lack of templates. if you're blogging for money, you should expect to need to hire a designer.  despite the shaky-at-best legality of canvas' non-comercial license, it ...

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guidelines for the feed icon

22 Jun 2006 – 9:28
By adam | Posted in blogging, design | Also tagged | Comments (2)

i've been working on my redesign (yes, my aspirations are loftier than just this header). i checked in on matt brett's feedicons.com to see if it had rebooted (to see if anyone else had made a ...

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