December 2008
11 posts
Unpsychic
I just came across my 2008 predictions from a year ago. My career change to Professional Clairvoyant is shot with my 33% accuracy.
Cultural Omnivores
From The Age of Mass Intelligence (via Kottke):
In 2007 the American research group MRI looked at the viewing and reading habits of the elite market, which it defined as those who went to, or subscribed to, at least two of the following: the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, HBO, theatre, art galleries or classical concerts. They found that of this group, a third also read People...
Sifter, Behind the Scenes →
I’m not sure how the forever-in-the-making Sifter stacks up against Lighthouse, but Garrett Dimon has a nice writeup on some of the design decisions that went into it.
New work - Connect for Healthcare
I haven’t posted much about my own work lately, so I thought I’d take a few minutes and talk about one of the projects that’s been keeping me busy the past several months. This past spring, I signed on as a partner in a new company that offers a web-based service connecting people with their loved ones in long term care (ie. nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, etc.). ...
JSS →
“JSS is a plugin to the jQuery JavaScript library. It is designed to make all jQuery selectors available within your standard CSS files. This effectively means that you get full CSS3 selector support in all jQuery supported browsers.”