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February 15, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Don Melanson pointed me towards Feed’s latest special issue: Video Games 2001, with good articles by Steadman, Hall, Johnson, and more. Carl‘s up to his usual high standard: “But a 3-D shooter mapped into 2-D space also means an end to the paranoia — it’s no longer about what lurks around the next corner or who’s fixin’ to gib you from behind. The game isn’t necessarily easier, but — for me at least — it’s more like playing a game. If 2-D is less visceral, well, I eat enough Xanax as it is.”

Tags: Blogger, Blogging, Game, Space, Test, Video, War, Web

Wired News

February 6, 2001 by Michael Boyle

: The Greatest Hacks of All Time.

Tags: Test, Wired

Interesting news from

January 23, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Concordia University here in Montreal. The next Summit of the Americas is coming up in April and will be held in Quebec City. Concordia’s Senate has approved a plan to allow students who wish to attend protests in Quebec to defer their final examinations. The quote I heard on the radio said something like, “civic activism and protests are a legitimate part of the university experience.”

Tags: Montreal, Protest, Quebec, Test

Tom makes a great

January 20, 2001 by Michael Boyle

point today at plasticbag.org. I enjoy using Blogger, but as a point of principle it’s important to have a variety of tools available for content management.

Personally, I don’t think it’s viable to ever do a site, even a small site, without integrating a means to manage the writing (at least) without messing with the raw html files. I’ve done lots of small sites for people who haven’t made a big commitment to a web strategy – they just want a little website.

When I do a site like that I am available to make updates – but those sites have usually been done as a favour, for free. I don’t always have the time to maintain them fully. So I generally try and download most or all of the update responsibility for updates to my “client” – usually a friend or someone like that. And they always mess them up.

So for me, it’s really important that there are options available for content management, that the tools are being developed.

I’m starting to put this idea to the test today, when I (finally) have my first real meeting with the nice people at Santropol Roulant, for whom I’m putting together a small team to build a site as a donation. The idea is to do a well-designed, professional quality site for the organization – an important meals on wheels service here in Montreal. So we’re going to start to define the project today, and implicit in the project definition will be to include content management tools so they can “own” the daily management of their own site.

Tags: Blogger, Blogging, Design, Friend, GNE, Montreal, Personal, Professional, Quality, Strategy, Test, Web

Decline and Fall

January 19, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Decline and Fall: a special issue of A List Apart covering the latest dot-com shakeout. Excellent stuff, including the new discussion area.

Tags: Test

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