TWENTY SECONDS. Website icons are visual metaphors. Quickly, within the mere twenty seconds you have to draw someone into the content of your website, an effective icon connects different pages…
In Business, Should You Play Santa or the Grinch?
There are several big selling seasons businesses count upon in each fiscal year. Christmas is naturally the biggest of them all. After all, Easter, Mother’s or Father’s Day selling doesn’t…
Icon Contests are Crowdsourcing
Back to crowdsourcing! The fact is crowdsourcing is more common and easier than we often think. In a nutshell, crowdsourcing is the idea of putting a task into the hands…
With the rise of gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), I thought I would begin an intermittent series of crystal ball readings on what the new .com revolutions of the 2-year…
Do You Have the Skills to Deal on a Global Scale?
In the dark days of technology, when faxes were the fastest way to communicate with clients, I was contacted by a Japanese company to do some design and illustrations for…
Geek Ethicist: Murphy’s Law of Email
“Dear Ethicist– I recently received a long, personal email from a complete stranger. The email was not addressed to me, so I can only guess that they misspelled the email…
Are Your Employees Killing Your Business?
While the world seems to be watching Honey Boo Boo to see what outrageousness comes next, I love tuning into Restaurant Stakeout and Bar Rescue and even the latest non-food,…
Politics of Memes: Memevertising Part I
Eastwooding empty chairs, Women in binders, now Horses and bayonets, “ermahgerd!” where is the chubby bubble girl and why do bronies even exist? Didn’t South Park already make the point? Tebowing…
It’s no surprise that as part of our human condition, we either do not see or rationalize our own bad behavior towards others. We will not take the extra twenty…
Geek Ethicist: Stealing Ethically
“Dear Ethicist– I am an artist and a graphic designer. Lately I’ve been thinking about “derivative works,” mostly due to the press surrounding Shepard Fairey’s Obama photo and the recent…
According to a recent New York Times piece by Matt Richtel marriages in much of the world rarely last much longer than a decade or so. He suggests that marriage itself…
Geek Ethicist: Friend your Spouse?
“Dear Ethicist– Perhaps this is a question for the Internet Miss Manners, but I have yet to find her. So I’m asking you. Here’s my question: Should spouses be friends…