this is mikel.org

Michael Boyle's weblog

  • home
  • archives
  • about
  • words

From A List Apart:

April 24, 2007 by Michael Boyle

The Web Design Survey. “A few days back, we remarked on the strange absence of real data about web design and the designers, developers, IAs, writers, project managers, and other specialists and hybrids who do this work. In all the years people have been creating websites, nobody bothered to gather statistics about who does this work, using what skills, under what conditions, and for what kinds of compensation.”
i-took-the-2007-survey.gif

This is what leadership looks like. Not empty punditry, rather going out to gather data that doesn’t yet – but should – exist. And all without fanfare or self-congratulation.

Tags: ALA, Survey, Web Design

Firefox just crashed

April 24, 2007 by Michael Boyle

for the last time. I’m moving back to Camino.

Tags: Browser, Firefox

By the way,

April 10, 2007 by Michael Boyle

it’s now official – je reviens à Montréal! Or, I should say, nous revenons à Montréal. As of this week our house in Ottawa will be on the market, we’ve been looking at places in our beloved Plateau Mont-Royal for a few weeks, and I had a second interview for a really great job this morning and I am extremely optimistic that an offer is going to follow at the end of the week.

The only sticky issue will be that I will likely have to be in Montreal for work before we’re entirely set up in our new abode, so I’m also looking for somewhere to rent a room for a month or so (in May). Suggestions and offers to mboyle [at] mikel.org!

Update Apr 12: the offer I was hoping for did come through and I start work on April 30. I have had a couple of nice offers of space to stay for a few weeks and I’ll be following up on those shortly. Thanks for all the well wishes!

Tags: Montreal, Ottawa, Personal

Thomas Purves has posted

April 10, 2007 by Michael Boyle

a comparison of mobile data pricing in Canada and elsewhere in the world, and demonstrates that Canadian rates are by far the highest anywhere. The only *possible* light at the end of the tunnel is that if Rogers does bring in the Apple iPhone, then they’re going to have to do something to address the fact that the iPhone is designed for a pretty high level of network access, or so it seems. With any luck – but I’m not holding my breath – this will benefit Canadian customers across the board.

Tags: Bell, Canada, iPhone, Mobile, Price, Rogers, Wireless, Wireless Data

I’m a bit late with this,

April 2, 2007 by Michael Boyle

but I’m going to chime in with my congratulations to Dave Winer for achieving a remarkable benchmark: A decade of Scripting News. With Scripting News (among very few others), we saw the transformation of the “often-updated personal website” become something quite different. “Often” and “every day, several times” are, on the web, radically different things. Congratulations!

Tags: Anniversary, Blogging, Scripting News

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • …
  • 573
  • Next Page »

search

recent

  • Diouf Article
  • Anil Dash: We’re not being alarmist enough about climate change…
  • Learning about Gutenberg
  • From the “I thought I’d heard it all” file
  • One year since his passing: The Day Prince’s Guitar Wept the Loudest

Archives

War Copyfight Internet NYTimes Microsoft Email Blogging Design Browser Personal Canada Apple Canadian Politics US Politics Montreal Web Design Arts Music Google Funny Media Friend Search Web Sports GNE Test International Affairs Social Networks Business Wired Software
Michael Boyle Blog
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2000–2025 · Michael Boyle

Copyright © 2025 · Modern Portfolio Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in