How To Do the Moonwalk

July 2, 2009

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I think the best tidbit of knowledge from this is that Michael Jackson got the idea for the moonwalk from watching Marcel Marceau.

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I’ve heard a lot of complaints that Drupal sites aren’t as pretty as WordPress sites, and I think these complaints are based on the fact that a lot of Drupal themes really are ugly.  But it occurs to me that this may be because there isn’t as large of a market for off-the-shelf premium Drupal themes.  Instead, there is a small pool of a few dozen commonly used themes for Drupal—most of which are hideous, blocky-looking monstrosities—and then there are custom-themed sites that look great that you don’t realize are Drupal sites.

Moral of the story, good Drupal sites don’t look like Drupal sites, because a well-done CMS theme shouldn’t contain clunky elements that tip off the user as to what CMS is being used.

Here are some Drupal sites that are definitely not ugly:

Also, 43 Folders used to have a wonderful theme for Drupal implemented, but has since been sadly stripped down.  See its former glory:

Update 07/02/2009: Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian political group, just sent me an email about their new site, which happens to be built in Drupal and also not ugly.   In fact, it’s rather awesome looking.

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Attention Webmasters: PageSpeed Crucial for SEO

June 25, 2009

Google is trying to speed up the web.  How?  By giving you a tool to see why your web pages are so damned slow.  Google penalizes you for slow load times already, so there’s already incentive to be as quick as possible, now it’s just gotten easier to get the speed you need.
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The Virginia Chamber of Commerce, or Why Web Design Matters

June 24, 2009

Increasingly I’m seeing having a bad website as a measure of an organization’s ability to recognize and deal with problems effectively.  By the looks of it, the Virginia Chamber doesn’t have the ability to deal with problems, or recognize that the teal and yellow monstrosity that is its public face to the world is a [...]

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Project Natal Not Actually Racist

June 22, 2009

There are reports buzzing around the Internets that Microsoft’s new no-controller game system struggles to see darker-skinned folks. Apparently this has to do with the infrared technology not working well with skin that contains a lot of melanin, the pigmentation chemical in human skin.  This is interesting from a purely scientific point of view, [...]

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twittjr – Twitter on the IBM PCjr

June 21, 2009

This has to be one of the coolest projects I’ve seen with retro tech in a while, partly because of my affinity for the PCjr (pictured in the header cause it was my first computer), but also because this is a useful application of old tech. Using a PCjr to run Twitter could actually [...]

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Breitbart’s Big Hollywood Cites Me on Hulu & Antitrust

May 14, 2009

I blogged about the possibility that Hulu could be investigated for antitrust violation by the Obama administration at TLF in a post entitled “Should Hulu Brace for Antitrust Action?” and now I’m big in Hollywood. That is to say that S.T. Karnick at Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Hollywood” blog linked to me.
Karnick states the case [...]

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UPDATE: 243 Ways to Ping

May 1, 2009

Update services are used by search engines to keep their directories up to date.  By telling WordPress which update services it should be talking to—often referred to as “pinging”—you’ll ensure that search engines are aware of updates to your blog the instant they happen—or perhaps with a few millisecond delay.
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James Dellinger, Web God

March 12, 2009

I have to acknowledge that much of what I’ve learned about content promotion on the web is thanks to Mr. James Dellinger.  Cranking up the update services, getting Quantified, using FeedBurner as an update service engine, and all sorts of other useful advice has come out of our conversations via Google Talk and over burritos [...]

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Get Analyzed by GoDaddy Traffic Blazer or Web CEO

March 10, 2009

So you think you’ve got a site that’s optimized for search engines?  That might be true, but getting a second opinion is always a good idea.  You can find a second and even a third opinion using Web CEO and GoDaddy Traffic Blazer.
Web CEO provides all sorts of services.  The basic edition of the software [...]

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