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Great name:

July 13, 2004 by Michael Boyle

apparently today in the US it’s National ‘Computer ate my vote” day. In the meantime we have just held a second national general election, tallied exclusively from paper ballots, with no widespread accounts of problems.

Thoughts of a redesign.

July 12, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Traditionally, weblogs are redesigned as a surprise. The person who maintains the site generally toils for a short time and then abruptly unveils the new design, hoping for maximum shock value as the new design hopefully impresses and awes readers. I am going to take a different approach: I’m going to ask what people would like to see.

I have been tinkering with a couple of ideas, but haven’t quite settled on anything good yet. One of them was yellow and black and red – sort of a throwback to an old mikel.org design. One of them is almost identical to this one, but a little cleaner. I’ve also been looking at some of the very white-looking low-contrast text-oriented designs.

So I throw the ball to you: what do you think the next mikel.org should look like? Are there any design elements here that you think should be untouchable – maybe the pencil? From a strict usability standpoint, what do you think it is important to fix? The orange I use, for instance – I know it’s a little bright and hard to read on some Win machines. How about the one lowly table in an otherwise all-CSS design? OK, or ditch it? What do you think?

Dave Sifry

July 9, 2004 by Michael Boyle

announced the other day that as of July 6, Technorati tracked its 3 millionth weblog. Holy crap that’s a lot of weblogs.

Michael Moore:

July 9, 2004 by Michael Boyle

My First Wild Week with Fahrenheit 9/11. “Thank you again, all of you, for your support. Together we did something for the history books. My apologies to “Return of the Jedi.” We’ll make it up by producing “Return of the Texan to Crawford” in November.” See also Moore’s blog, as distinct from his “Words” posts.

If you haven’t been yet,

July 8, 2004 by Michael Boyle

John Robb’s Global Guerrillas weblog is quickly becoming required reading for those of us interested in the study – not the propaganda – of terrorism and the like.