While references give people quick facts, guides take them through processes with greater context and comprehension.
Category: Content Life Cycle
From the initial spark to the trash bin, every piece of information has certain life events. In this section I discuss different aspects of creating, managing, organizing, retiring, and reusing content.
Filler text, a.k.a. “lorem ipsum,” causes more problems than it solves. I’m inventing a better solution that turns meaningless drivel into a useful tool.
Changing My Mind
March 2019
What began as a tablet-vs-laptop experiment ended with an awareness of how much influence my tools have over my work.
SEOverrated
February 2019
SEO focuses on sprinkling keywords into text to catch Google’s attention. But it shouldn’t. If we’re going to serve people and keep up with increasingly-clever search engines, we need to optimize for more than search engines themselves.
Meet Seven Other Extended Tag Families
January 2019
I like to use a certain formula when developing tags. But the more I think about it, the further the formula can extend. Here are a few ideas that push boundaries.
Using Tags to Find Things in the macOS Finder
November 2018
Tagging isn’t just for website content. It also applies to files and folders on Macs. Tags lead to order, more or less, and system-wide searches so you can find information you need before your next client meeting.
Fight Pixel Bloat With a Dash of Math
October 2018
Image optimization isn’t just saving lower JPG percentages. It’s a question of “pixel weight,” or the average amount of information each pixel contains. More pixels in an image isn’t a bad thing, as long as the individual units aren’t flabby. I mean, who wants potbellied pixels?
Create Harmonious Tag Families With a Sensible Framework
September 2018
While trying to build a tag system that made sense, I stumbled on a system for building human- and algorithm-friendly keywords. Taxonomy came from prose.