Archives for October 2009
What’s UCLA doing on their homepage?
If you go to ucla.edu, their “spotlight” has a running countdown. When you click on it, it takes you to a set of clues. Is this some sort of Google hiring stunt? Anyone have any idea what they’re cooking up?
Being boring online
I don’t know when I got boring online. It just happened slowly. The gradual boring of Ron Bronson probably began with the start of my professional career. I went from the Air Force to college, so I had about eight… continue reading »
The trials of teaching an online class, Pt. 1
Earlier this year, I made a transition from talking about web strategy behind the scenes, to doing so in front of a classroom of aspiring web professionals. This is the third term I’ve taught The Business of Visual Art: Web… continue reading »
The peril of being “social”
Welp, if you enjoyed using the social network Foursquare (like me), prepare to lose all of your mayorships and expect to contend with a ton of new traffic, as the NY Times has profiled the new service in today’s paper:… continue reading »
NBA launches a video rule book
Fans think there are unwritten rules that govern the NBA’s referees and how infractions are called depending on who the player is that commits the violations. The league decided to create an online rule book to address these concerns. The… continue reading »