The EPpy awards were presented today, and our BoomerGirl.com (which I designed) won for Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site. Congrats to Cathy and the rest of the people involved in BoomerGirl.com. I’m pretty excited about this — gotta admit, having an EPpy award winner on the resume can’t hurt! :)
KUSports.com also won for Best Sports Web Site, a category which it has taken several times. I didn’t design the current iteration of it, but I’m set to redesign it later this year. Big shoes to fill. Visit site »
Twitter’s API doesn’t subscribe to its own privacy mechanisims. In other words, all those for-friend-only tweets you’ve been sending are viewable by anyone using an API app. Whoops.
Am I the only person who has been generally unimpressed by twitter as a web service? Nevermind the fact that I just don’t get very interested in the purpose of the site, but the service itself has largely sucked. The site is sometimes painfully slow, the API is constantly unresponse (I use it myself to collect friends’ twitter status, and I get error e-mails all the time from my script saying the API URL wasn’t responding), they’ve public aired out their dirty laundry with Rails and it’s scalability (or lack thereof), and now they didn’t even bother to make the API care about privacy?
I respect Evan Williams and always thought Blogger and Odeo were quite well-done — but Twitter just seems like it’s made by the same bunch of amateurs that are responsible for MySpace. I’m sure they’re great people, but it sure seems like they have a lot of trouble with their application.
Update: It appears this report was incorrect. Rather, the lack of privacy exhibited in some Twitter API apps have been the fault of those apps, not Twitter itself. I still stand by most of what I said, though. Twitter just seems to have more problems than it’s worth, to me. Visit site »
Oh man, I’ve been saying this for years. My analogy has always been: if you slipped and fell in the mud, you wouldn’t wipe off with a dry paper towel and consider yourself clean — so why do you consider your ass clean when you wipe it with dry toilet paper? This guy uses a similar analogy in his brilliant manifesto. Awesome. Visit site »
A page we’ve always wanted to have on the site but never had taken the time to build. Christian threw it together quite nicely early this week. I think it’s a fun, exploratory view into the various types of content we publish. Visit site »
Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain redesigns his tiny agency’s site, and it’s freaking great. Beautiful grid work (looks like a 12-unit grid to me, but I haven’t done the math), awesome colors, great typography, elegant navigation, and a sweet portfolio of work. Great job, Jesse. Visit site »