Category Archives: Site News
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
New blog theme, one that will stick for a while