January 14, 2010

A Crisis of Identity in the Digital Age

Hi, my name is Craig, and I create content. Between gabbing about industry trends, waxing political, songwriting and recording music, not to mention posting sporadic updates to my status on myriad social networking sites, I am out and about on the WWW. Not as much as some, but of late, the ingest/output ratio has definitely started becoming more balan more

Posted at 09:30 pm by Craig McEldowney

May 26, 2009

What TweenBots Can Teach About Federating Tasks

So here’s the short version: Artist makes a cute little robot. Robot carries a flag with a destination written on it. Robot is set loose on the streets of New York City. Passersby see the little robot, figure out where it is going, and help redirect it towards its g more

Posted at 06:53 pm by Craig McEldowney

December 17, 2008

Buzz makes the world go around, doesn't it?

With Apple pulling out of MacWorld after 2009, some of us (myself, specifically) wonder what their decision means about the state of capital 'B' Buzz anymore. For years, that event has had Macintosh fans (and detractors) waiting on baited breath for the latest and greatest developments out of Cupert more

Posted at 05:53 pm by Craig McEldowney

August 08, 2008

Holes in the Dam

I think companies worry too much about how people might misuse their content. They worry about putting content online because of how users may steal/change/modify that content. Call me naïve, but it seems to me that some users turn to piracy and redistribution to support alternate use cases, because their needs have not been adequately handled with an existing system. more

Posted at 02:55 pm by Craig McEldowney

July 30, 2008

Everyone's Got 'Em...

Opinions, that is. And in this digital age, everyone's got some kind of soapbox to shout them from, be it online pollsters stickin' it to ‘em by clicking radio buttons, or folks posting comments, message threads, diggs, tweets, more

Posted at 07:19 pm by Craig McEldowney

July 23, 2008

Beyond Keywording

What is it that really captures my attention on a website? Sure, I notice look and feel. Every once in a while I come across an interesting UI component or a particularly clever approach that captures my interest. But typically, I’d imagine that like most people, I spend time focused on the website content. more

Posted at 02:03 pm by Craig McEldowney

July 16, 2008

iWant an iPhone

It's true. From the first murmurings on one of the varied Mac rumor sites to the day it was officially announced, my lizard-brain kicked in and put a check so firmly in the "I want" column that it blurred over the edges into "I need&qu more

Posted at 06:20 pm by Craig McEldowney

May 01, 2008

Why Build a Website In the First Place?

This question is frequently the elephant in the room when organizations sit down to discuss their Web presence. People tend to focus on what the site will look like, what widgets and features it will have, and what it will do. Some organizations miss out on why they are building the site in the first place. more

Posted at 06:04 pm by Craig McEldowney

March 10, 2008

My Development Toolbox

For fast and easy Web development, a suitable environment is necessary. Although there are various types of tools out there (free or licensed), developers may have difficulty finding a suitable "toolbox." more

Posted at 11:50 pm by Craig McEldowney

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Article by Jill Ambroz of Folio Magazine on the rise of the open-source Web Content Management System as a way for publishers to deliver content to their sites. > more

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