Stay hungry. Stay foolish. News came across the wire that Apple Inc.’s co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has passed on after a long battle with cancer. Exceptional brilliance has left us. No matter what you thought of Steve Jobs, love him or hate him, you have to admit that he was one of the most dynamic, passionate and brilliant people in technology, and dare [...]

For the record, I like the instant streaming on Netflix. I had no problem paying for the streaming and the DVD delivery that Netflix was going to force upon subscribers. Until today. By now, most people have heard the Netflix-Qwikster news. The second I read the news, I promptly brought up netflix.com and removed the DVD option from my account. I then found the Netflix [...]

The news came out today that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit in the Federal court in Washington, D.C., to attempt to block the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. “Any way you look at this transaction, it is anticompetitive,” says Sharis Pozen, an acting assistant attorney general. “Our action today seeks to ensure that our nation enjoys the competitive wireless industry [...]

I guess it was bound to happen. Apple released a statement today saying that there are some changes coming to the Developer Agreement for iOS Developers. Back in April, Apple had changed the agreement to only allow certain kinds of programming languages to be used for the creation of apps using the official Apple iOS APIs. Apple removed the extra words it had added to [...]

It’s Friday. Today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs held a press conference at Apple headquarters to discuss the iPhone 4 and all the negativity that’s been floating around the last few weeks. It’s been talked about since the iPhone 4 came out. The places where I’ve seen people with any clue about the situation with the iPhone antenna have said what Steve Jobs said in his [...]

I’ve seen this topic battered around the last few days and it’s been a interesting topic, especially as someone that works in a creative industry. Newsweek posted an article to their website entitled The Creativity Crisis, where they analyze research that claims that creativity in America is declining. Whyfor, you may ask? Pay No Attention to the Creative Behind the Curtain A lot of things [...]

I have several pet peeves. One of them involves a small triangular sign that appears on roadsides periodically. Some of you may have seen it.       Now, for those that don’t know, that’s called a Yield Sign. According to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, a YIELD sign may be warranted: On the approaches to a through street [...]

There are times where it can be embarrassing to be a designer.  People in the industry that think they know something can make the lot of the good designers look really bad.  This is one of those times.  Why?  Well, I came across an article today on Fast Company. It’s about a “designer,” Dustin Curtis and his reaction to the current website for American Airlines. [...]

In his book, Power/Knowledge, Michel Foucault discussed the ever-present nature of power and truth. In everything we do, there is some sort of power dynamic that is revealed in the course of our everyday lives. [1] One of the largest power dynamics that we deal with each day is also ever-present and all around us, namely the world of pop culture. Movies, television, the Internet, [...]

What's wrong with the English language? This. Well said, however very eloquent.