postaday2011

  • Morgan’s Rock Featured in Departures Magazine

    Morgan’s Rock Featured in Departures Magazine

    In this month’s Departures Magazine, Morgan’s Rock Ecolodge is featured in the article on Nicaragua. I visited Morgan’s Rock a few years ago, and had a great stay. It’s great to see the great photography from around Nicaragua, and read about the country. My family has been there a few times in the past years.…

  • The Future Is Near: Light Up Cereal Boxes

    When inductive power meets the grocery cereal isle, you get light up cereal boxes. These prototype boxes built by Fulton Innovations use embedded, inexpensive electronics to draw power from the shelf they’re sitting on, and then power light up displays. In relation to other recent products, it’s like “Powermat” or “Energizer Inductive Charger” inductive power…

  • How This Blog’s WordPress Theme Works

    At the beginning of this year, I decided to try writing a blog post every day. So far, I’ve managed to keep up with hit, but it’s been no easy task. For a post to happen every day, I’ve been spending much more time in the WordPress interface, both on my desktop computer, as well…

  • Web Design for Desktop & Mobile Consolidated Compatibility: Adaptive CSS3

    Web Design for Desktop & Mobile Consolidated Compatibility: Adaptive CSS3

    The fluid grid layout methodology is an emerging method for making websites instantly and optimally accessible from any device, with any size screen. Hopefully, we’ll start to see wider spread usage of these new features in CSS3, so new websites are designed with this kind of functionality in mind.

  • Using Microformats and RDFa with eCommerce

    Using Microformats and RDFa with eCommerce

    This was originally written in response to a question from my team at Morpheus Media. Lately we’ve been discussing on our team the use of Microformats and RDFa. There’s recently been a significant rise in industry attention to these emerging formats – earlier this year Google released its Webmasters Rich Snippets Testing Tool.

  • Google favors mobile optimized sites in their mobile search results

    Google favors mobile optimized sites in their mobile search results

    Recently, a client asked me about Google Mobile Search Results, and how the algorithm works to prioritize results aimed specifically at mobile users. In general, I believe that Google favors mobile optimized sites in their mobile search results. There are a number of usability features, such as location base services, screen real estate, and touch…

  • Photos from New Years in Telluride, Colorado

    Photos from New Years in Telluride, Colorado

    This past holiday season, my father and I spent time in Telluride, Colorado. We got in a couple great days of skiing and snowboarding, among other things. Photos from the trip…

  • Andrew Wonder Explores the NYC Underground with a Canon 5Dmk2

    This past week, urban explorer Andrew Wonder released his Undercity video on Vimeo. In it, he and Steve Duncan explore NYC’s hidden subway system. They take major risks and climb into the active tunnels, and eventually make it to the abandoned city hall subway station. The entire video was shot on the Canon 5Dmk2, and…

  • Finally Posted: Exploring Centralia, PA

    A little over a year ago, I went with friends Chris, Nick and Polina to explore the abandoned, burning ghost town of Centralia, PA. The town lies in the coal mining area of Pennsilvania, and due to a mine fire burning underneath it for the last 50 years, is completely abandoned. The mines continue to…

  • LVMH’s Nowness.com Is Ranked #1 of 7 Stellar Examples of Branded Content from the Fashion Industry on Mashable

    LVMH’s Nowness.com Is Ranked #1 of 7 Stellar Examples of Branded Content from the Fashion Industry on Mashable

    This week, Macala Wright Lee of popular industry blog Mashable.com ranked LVMH’s Fashion and Art Culture Site Nowness.com site in the top position in their 2010 wrapup of the 7 Stellar Examples of Branded Content from the Fashion Industry. It’s been great working with NOWNESS over the last few months on their SEO and interactive…

  • SPOT Satellite Messenger Giving False Checkin Confirmations

    SPOT Satellite Messenger Giving False Checkin Confirmations

    This past week my sister has been traveling through India. For her trip, I hooked her up with my SPOT Satellite Messenger. The SPOT Satellite Messenger allows her to “check in” via satellite and GPS, and automatically send a pre-defined list of email addresses a message telling us she’s ok, with her GPS location. Since…

  • Sailing in Tahiti Media Has (FINALLY) Been Posted

    Five years after the trip took place, I’ve finally gotten around to posting up the trip photos, videos, and Sean’s trip report. Read the original trip post from 2006: Sailing in French Polynesia.

  • SkunkJuice Shows Up With Two Magnetic TV Spots

    Skunkjuice has a novel concept, but even better tv spots (Spot One, Spot Two) for their new magnetic headphone connector cord. The cable uses a magnetic coupling to connect the cable to the jack, so that if any stress is put on the cable – snagging on a corner, pulled by your jacket, etc, the…

  • Video Clips from Trekking in Peru

    Video Clips from Trekking in Peru

    This past summer Chris and I went exploring in Peru. During the trip, we took a number of photos and videos. The photos have been put on flickr, and now here’s a compilation of all of the video clips from the trip. Be sure also to see the full blog post about the trip.

  • I’m Posting every day in 2011!

    I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a day for all of 2011. Enter your email address to subscribe: Delivered by FeedBurner I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and…