Category Archives: Site News

Tracer by Tynt

After read­ing Zachary Seward’s arti­cle at the Nieman Journalism Lab about the new ser­vice Tracer, I decided to give it a try. Tracer is a javascript that tracks when peo­ple select or copy text from your site. When they copy the text, the script inserts a lit­tle “read more” link at the end of what [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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