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October 2013

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10 Self Motivators for Writers

I’m thinking most of my readers of the "new" blog are writers to some capacity. That is to say, I’m betting you’re sitting on an incomplete draft of some novel, article, story, academic paper, etc. While it’s relatively easy to get (re)motivated by some conversation, epiphany, read, etc., I'...

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DIY Animated Videos

I came across goanimate.com, a cool site that lets you make your own professional animated videos. There are a ton of backgrounds, characters, themes, etc., and you have much freedom to change how it all looks. It's all drag-and-drop for storyboarding, and then you record your own audio. And the ch...

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Come to the Dark Patterns

Dark patterns are intentional content and design decisions in UX that tend to employ deceptive practices to trick you into taking some action. There’s actually quite a bit of psychology that goes into such design decisions. I recently came across this website and presentation that details what...

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GoDaddy Purchases Media Temple

DISCLAIMER: I will generally not comment on the happenings and decisions of my employer, here. More so, the thoughts and opinions on this blog are my own and do not represent or, necessarily coincide with, those of the company. However, I wanted to speak out on this one. Yesterday, GoDaddy purchas...

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