Philadelphia User Experience Consultant, Author, and Media Producer
I've been keeping an online journal of some kind since the late 1990s. We started calling them blogs at some point, but now even that term's a little quaint. Here's a collection of my favorite posts and essays, along with new work that shows you where my head's at lately.
If there’s already “too much content,” why even bother to write anything new? It turns out, the average lifespan of a blog post or a news article is just about three days. Older than that, and your …
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Most of the founders I talk with on my podcast, The Build, didn't start their companies with huge investors behind them. Sometimes, they had a stockpile of cash from a previous "exit," or from a nest …
A client’s investor called me to check in on the status of a communications campaign. Having made it through both “Web 1.0” and “Web 2.0,” he shared a perspective I hear often from media and …
Kickstarter looks and acts just like some of the 2.0 designs for public radio pledge interfaces I built for XPN back in 2001. Except, we had plenty of research to show us that you got way higher …
I declared victory over the need to get a cable box in the new apartment in this post from a few months back. You might be among the dozens of folks who've been asking me about what happened since …
Attending Barcamp Philly inspired me to solidify a lot of these ideas. There's a JFDI attitude in this town that I find myself connecting with more and more. Now that I'm settled in from our move to …
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Sometimes, when I'm not griping about still having to pay down my student loan, I think about what I really got for my money when I attended Ithaca College. I may not be working in either of the two …
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Almost two weeks later, and the snow still reminds me more of Ithaca than of anything I grew up with around here. …
Five years ago tonight, I posted the original version of this image to my Flickr stream. This is what you see when you drive through the center of town at midnight on Christmas Eve: festive …
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A client confirmed for me what anyone who has spent time in Philadelphia knows by heart: Wawa is more than just a convenience store, it's the nexus for peculiar Philly culture. Philly natives know …
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Even though it's our second winter back north, it still feels like a surprise to wake up to this. Especially since it was 65 degrees out earlier in the week. …
Right now, it's still in a box that doubles as a handy kitchen island for unloading groceries. Tomorrow, it's getting fully installed, and the old, broken Kenmore dishwasher is being hauled away. A …
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