Dan Eastwell, Web Interface Designer and Developer

July 2009

3 posts

“When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.” —Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule

Jul 28, 2009

“a sinister side effect of social networking: it’s never enough. What does it mean, exactly, to “embrace the medium”? Apparently, it means a compulsive dedication to what essentially amounts to busy work: checking in with your followers or friends repeatedly and often, leaving bursts of quasi-communiqués, updating your statuses, tending friend requests, managing an unyielding firehose of housekeeping tasks. It just means spending a lot of time just wasting time.” —Subtraction.com: A Good Day’s Busy Work

Jul 15, 2009

How to: Putting your stories on a map | News | guardian.co.uk → guardian.co.uk

Chris Heilmann has developed a utility that parses text, finds the locations, allows you to confirm them, and then outputs a map, with yahoo maps embed code and microformats for your locations.

Could come in very handy!

Jul 6, 2009