http://WebcraftStudios.com Crafting The World Wide Web Thu, 14 May 2009 20:40:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a little more than 3 months since my last blog post, little to nothing has changed. I'm currently still seeking payment on overdue invoices from the company that bought out my last client. My legal council is very confident that it's merely a matter of time and stepping through ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2009/05/14/status-report-still-frozen-but-not-dead-yet/ In a nutshell, Webcraft Studios is on ice - as in long term storage. My big 2008 client reported that my social media marketing campaign yielded better results for less money than another similar project running for another of their products. The other campaign was an ARG while my campaign ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2009/02/01/status-report-webcraft-is-on-ice/ I just saw an interesting article on Cnet about Obama collecting information on open source software. I agree with the author, Matt, in that a mandate would be somewhat inappropriate. However, I am very disappointed in another aspect of McNealy's quote. Sure, if we manage to save some money ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2009/01/22/obama-looks-into-open-source-software-foss/ Dear Palm, I'm very excited about your new Palm Pre. No, I did not buy your first generation Palm Pilot. I did, however, buy one of those first generation Handspring devices. Yes, the Handspring, made by those guys that left Palm to start a new company. A company you later ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2009/01/16/dear-palm-please-bring-webos-to-netbooks/ Last June, I made a post titled "A Call For A Distributed And Open Twitter Service". A friend recently sent me a direct tweet that made me very happy. Apparently, the ground work on an open microblogging format is in the works! Evan's comparison of an open microblogging standard with ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2009/01/14/open-microblogging-is-here/ It's that time of year somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Work is slow and it's cold - really cold - here in Colorado. I've nearly wrapped up the only outstanding work and all that's left in the queue are the endless internal projects. I've been spending the "down" time doing ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2008/12/15/status-report-closing-out-the-year/ I just finished making a lot of structural changes to WebcraftStudios.com. Previously, Wordpress was installed under the /blog directory and the rest of the site was static. I moved Wordpress to the root of the site and set everything up so I can use Wordpress as a CMS for all ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2008/12/06/todays-site-alternations/ I've been talking about Digital Theatrics for some time now. For some reason, it's taken a while for the term "Social Media" to click for me. By "click", I realised that social media is the stage on which Digital Theatrics is performed. I've noticed more and more social media companies advertising ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2008/12/03/they-call-it-social-media/ Perhaps I should start a blog category called "rants"? One of my favorite rants that never seems to go away is the backwards approach that many Web design firms still embrace. Many companies still start in Photoshop and then slice and dice their designs as a post process. Today I ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2008/11/04/backwards-web-design/ Here it is, the evening before Halloween. It's warm here in Colorado. It won't be warm much longer. The Digital Theatrics experimental campaign is complete. The campaign generated lots of educational experiences. The process did not prove nor disprove the viability of Digital Theatrics as a marketing service, but I ... http://WebcraftStudios.com/2008/10/30/status-report-first-gono-go-decision/