Spring Break is starting here… Have a comic.

After nearly 6 months, 70 blog entries, and 95 legitimate comments, I’m pleased to anounce that erelevant has garnered a truly amazing 5,000 spam comments. It’s nice to know that I will always have such an incredible selection of sources for various prescription drugs, organ enlargement procedures, loans, stock tips, and even high quality […]

I’ve returned from a fantastic month in the trenches of novel writing. I’ve got a lot of fun things to share in the world of higher ed web as we head into winter. Learning DOM scripting, a redesign, rebuilding a custom CMS from scratch–it’s going to be a fun couple months.
But in the […]

(1) Push Button
(2) Release Bacon
(3) Enjoy Bacon

(I really do have a Marketing for Dummies book that I picked up for free… sometimes I make my students read it when I’m feeling a little sadistic.  We save Michel Foucault for when I’m feeling downright mean.) I’ve been working on brainstorming branding and doing a website audit. There’s change in the wind […]

[…] The best way for me to innovate and enjoy what I do is to go native. Time to slip into the digital tribe and move among its peoples—virtual, 3D hands brushing in the darkness of social networked second lives, a million onymous youth dancing hyper-textualy into the night, the thrumming of drum and bass shared via mapped music genomes, and the twinkling glow of liquid-crystal-pixels offering up the entire geo-positioned world like an altar to a social, multi-cultural, semantic, hive-minded, Mercurial GOD.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ - Blog of Danah Boyd. A PhD student studying privacy and the internet.
http://greenteaicecream.co.uk/ - “Social Value and the Social Web”
http://www.fastcompany.com/ - Interesting blog associated with Fast Company magazine.

I am taking a hiatus for the remainder of the summer to finish some hulking, be-fanged programming projects. Once those are complete, I am going to “take off the training wheels” on erelevant–redesign and revision it around a broader central theme. It will be less personal, less inflammatory and more topical and content-oriented. […]

When Time magazine named “You” as its person of the year in 2006, it was a ham-handed attempt to salute “user-generated content” as the driving force behind Web 2.0. Last year MySpace and YouTube commanded $580 million and $1.6 billion, respectively, because regular folks participate in the grand techno-democratic experiment, baring their souls to the […]