Hypercrit

Michael Becker writes about journalism, new media and digital culture in general.

Category: Site News

New blog theme, one that will stick for a while

That settles it, I’m slightly in love with Manifest, a theme by Jim Barraud. It’s got just the clean look I wanted. With a little tweaking, it will serve perfectly.
On that note, look for some of the features of this blog, specifically any posted videos, to look funny. I embedded them all into this blog with […]

Design doldrums

I looked at my blog today and realized that I hated the design. I suppose I have only myself to blame. I made it after all.
Yet I was possessed of some strange desire to revert back to the default theme, Kubrick. Unfortunately, I changed the hell out of the Kubrick files to create a theme a […]

Hypercrit 6.5 is coming

If anyone would like to take a look, you can check out the demo of my new site design. It’s content-centric and very much a work in progress. It’s probably about two weeks away from going live at this URL.
I welcome your comments, critiques and suggestions, of course.
And yes, I know this is the second redesign in […]

Revolution and the unthinkable scenario

We are living through a revolution, writes Clay Shirky, just like the one that Gutenberg started around 1500. And all revolutions are more or less the same, he writes: “The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff gets put in its place.”
The old stuff getting broken in this case is newspapers. More and more […]

Categories changing

This is an organizational note. A few months ago, I changed the names of all my blog’s categories, pared them down so that there would be fewer of them. I figured, I’ll use tags for all the looser, randomer stuff and keep the categories rigid. Well, then I redesigned the blog and am not currently […]