Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
NEW BOOKS:
KATHRYN CASKIE released second book in the Seven Deadly Sins series today: The Most Wicked of Sins, featuring the sin of envy, starring Lady Ivy Sinclair. AUTHOR WEBSITE BONUS: an online guide to the seven siblings. And don’t miss the pretty photos from Kathryn’s own fairy tale wedding in Scotland earlier this summer. Lovely!
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Just a short Tuesday Tech this week, folks. Short, but fun!
A while back (a while being several years, I think) I heard about this internet service which would allow you to write an email to yourself to be delivered at some future date of your choice. I thought it sounded cool, but never checked it [...]
Yet one more reason to correctly and legally copyright design:
Twitter Paid $6 or Less for Crowdsourced ‘Birdie’ Graphic (WIRED)
This article also highlights the practice of designing “on spec” — that is, you get paid if we pick your design. Designing on spec has historically been advised against by the Graphic Artists Guild, and the design [...]
And now for something completely different, a bit of mid-month poetry. (No, no, I didn’t write it, I am merely republishing it.)
Beautiful without Money
Suddenly fatigued among French
women in the Roman
Empire rooms of the museum,
I fall out of circulation
on a bench. Bronze
heads, helms, a Byzantine
spoon, sixth century, engraved,
attributed to Virgil: O handsome
youth, do not believe [...]
Take a long holiday weekend, combine it with being home with a preschooler and infant twins all weekend with a husband off working, and you have a recipe for several days of I-don’t-have-time-to-read-my-tech-blogs.
Mix in an insidious worm making its rounds and infecting self-hosted WordPress installations, and you’ve got me, right now, steaming mad at spammers, [...]
