Sunshocked

Has Metallica has squandered any cultural relevancy it has had over the past twenty-five years? I make the case, using Google search results.

Since I’ve leaked that one of Diligent Creative‘s goals is to pull non-profits to the bleeding edge of online strategy, some might appreciate my defining exactly what that is.

Veteran web designers are proud to tell stories from the Great Separation of Style and Content during the early ’00s. But the emancipation of content, illustrated most profoundly by the RSS feed, has left many of us searching for the line where content ends and style begins.

I had three goals when I started Diligent Creative last October. The first was to pull non-profits closer to the bleeding edge of online strategy. The second was to provide a home for ethically-minded creative types. The third was an office. Yay for small victories.

For years, the growing prevalence of crowd-based production systems (like YouTube or Wikipedia) has forced us to consider the changing role of the expert. Is there still a place for a Shakespeare among the infinite monkeys and infinite typewriters? It seems, at last, society is coming to an answer.

It may have been a false alarm but for weeks I couldn’t find any hardback Moleskines anywhere and was convinced they had been discontinued. I was also convinced that, not unlike learning to siphon gasoline, I needed to adapt to my harsh new post-apocalyptic softback reality.

The internet is full of people reviewing Watchmen who manage to do so without spoilers. Not me. The following assumes that you have either read or will never read the original graphic novel and that you have either watched or will never watch the film.

I like electronic devices. I like books. One might expect that these facts would place me in the target audience for the new Kindle 2. So why does contemplation of the object leave me so “meh” inside?

While the nation wonders what our new president may accomplish in his first hundred days, here’s what I’ve been up to since I launched Diligent Creative back on October 1st.

Having realized the power of branding, the public health folks have set their sights on taking all logos off of cigarette packaging. A creative solution. Too bad logos and branding are not the same thing.