So when I hear John Lennon’s music in a bank commercial, that’s Yoko’s fault, right?
Fun fact: that’s Peter Murphy singing “Instant Karma” in the new Chase commercials.
I built HumanOptions.org based on a design comp. I sliced the PSD, created the XHTML and CSS and configured WordPress to run the site. We’ve got quite a few cool twists to the normal WordPress set-up working to run the site. We wanted to make nearly every section of the site update-able by the client. It was a very cool project to work on.
A few weeks ago a friend asked me out of curiosity if her IT department could see everything she was doing online. Yes, they can. A friend of mine who handled IT for a law firm once told me that he and his manager had a record of every employee’s passwords to personal accounts (seriously, like bank accounts) and routinely watched their activities by opening employees’ screens on their own. They would follow IM conversations between employees and literally knew everything that was “secretly” happening in the firm. Terrifying.
If IT wants to open your screen on theirs and watch what you’re doing, there’s not much you can do about it. But here are three things I do to allow a modicum of privacy. Bear in mind, I’m not an IT guy. This is just information from an amateur who digs privacy. (continue reading…)
I’m going to be writing about business — something about which I happily admit I know nothing. I couldn’t make a living running my own business. I’m not good at the details and I accept that.
But I do work for businesses and I observe how they run and that’s what I’m about to report: my observations. So just bear that in mind as things develop.
Yesterday I wanted to see what the news was about Phil Specter. I went to Google News and searched for his name.
I clicked on the top headline, naturally. It was the Washington Post’s. Here’s what I got:
Did I register and enter the site? Hell no. I hit the back button and clicked on the second source, the Chicago Tribune:
Way to go, Washington Post. Are your advertisers aware that your login policy drives readers away?
Old media wants us to mourn their inevitable obsolescence but their passing is just the passing of bad ideas. They had their chance to step into new media but most can’t even do that right.
Pretty sweet letterpress documentary on the legendary Hatch Show Print.
