A year ago around this time, I found myself taking a big risk by going to my first conference. I had just moved to San Francisco and began networking with people in the technology and Internet industry, but I found out that this one conference would be good because I’d be able to network with some of the people I followed on Twitter and also possibly land a job – or at least open some doors. Unfortunately, it didn’t land me a job immediately, but what that particular experience did …

In my weekly encounters, there are typically one or two events that I will peruse and maybe even a few conferences here and there. Often I find myself with my camera snapping photos and posting them onto Flickr under Creative Commons, specifically non-commercial, non-derivative and atrribution licensing. To see where these photographs appear, I enlist at least two basic tools in my research – one being Flickr’s referral statistics and the second being a Google Alert search query.
All of this has miraculously paid off today with an alert notifying me …

Apparently something has gotten web guru Molly Holzschlag up in a roar as she recently posted on her website a little tiff she’s having with Virgin Mobile over their latest campaign. There are a couple things wrong with this campaign, in my opinion…

First, the Virgin Mobile campaign is called “Are You With Us or What?” Can someone please explain to me what the hell that means? How does that correspond to anything relating to Virgin Mobile? Is the company trying to start the revolution?
Second (and perhaps the most important) is …

So my design skills come full-circle as today DCist.com wrote about a campaign that is going on here at work – Share Your DC – and of course, the website is mentioned…
This site is fully intended to draw local DC residents to share with the Washington, DC Convention & Tourism Corporation (WCTC) their ideas and perspectives on what DC represents to them. It comes complete with a quick poll (similiar to that on CNN.com) and an e-mail registration form that you can subscribe to receive updates on the progress …