posted by DL Byron on June 30, 2006
Starting now and through July, our partner, TDFblog will cover all the news about the Tour de France and Bike Hugger will observe the culture, explain the race, and reflect on the stunning drug scandal.
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posted by DL Byron on June 29, 2006
Clients keep asking me, I’ve been asking Six Apart, and Jay posts on where Movable Type 3.3 is. It’s on the verge of being released.
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posted by DL Byron on June 28, 2006
Attensa’s Supernova presentation was well received and tech bloggers noticed including Ryan Williams and Chris Chamness.
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posted by DL Byron on June 27, 2006
I recently signed up for an online invoice/purchase order system and the clerk thought my name was Adeal Byron instead of DL Byron. So when I log in, I see Adeal (sounds like Anil) as my user account. Knowing how difficult it would be to change that name, I’m just going with it.
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posted by DL Byron on June 27, 2006
Jason recut the author is born movie with better audio and a bigger size. The movie was shot at the Santa Monica Barnes & Noble, where I first saw Publish and Prosper: Blogging for your Business on the shelves. A Roshomon influence can be seen in Jason’s direction and how it’s “a work of art that engages the eyes and the ears, but most essentially, the brain.”
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posted by DL Byron on June 27, 2006
Justin Rattner, Intel CTO, launched his new tech editorial blog on ZDNet.com last Friday and answers the question, “If I’m Intel’s CTO, why isn’t this blog on the Intel site?” I understand the reach of ZDNet, and Justin’s rationale, but wouldn’t it be better to read his insights without the distractions of ZDNet? I wonder if a personal blog would be more effective.
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posted by DL Byron on June 26, 2006
On the Blog Business Book, I’ve posted a gallery from the seminar and book signing in Santa Monica, linked to Barnes & Noble self-discovery movie, and Podleaders podcast.
In Portland today, meeting with clients, and trying to stay cool in the summer heat wave.
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posted by DL Byron on June 26, 2006
I’d heard a big announcement was coming from the Gates Foundation, one that would change the world, and the Buffett grant announced on Sunday in Fortune and now in the news will certainly do that. That amount of money is stunning — 60 billion. And, as the NYTimes reports, the donation is egoless. It’s not for a named building or campus. It’s to change the world and create the biggest and most influential organization of its kind.
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posted by DL Byron on June 22, 2006
Pam likes to tell the story of a doctor she knows that said, “Americans don’t have any real diseases, so they make ones up.” We’ve got restless leg syndrome, Morgellon, and I just heard a CNN commentator talk about brain fogs that accompany Morgellon.
So, doc, I’ve got a Morgellon Brain Fog, my leg is restless, and I can’t sleep.
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posted by DL Byron on June 20, 2006
A perfectly timed, random iTunes shuffle started playing the Talking Head’s Crosseyed And Painless right as I was working on my mondo lists of things to do.
Making a list-Find the cost of opportunity
I’m still waiting … I’m still waiting … I’m still waiting …
I’m waiting to get caught up, for clients, for the blog book to sell big, to take a break, to speak, play with my pug, and ride my bike.
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posted by DL Byron on June 19, 2006
What was a great Spring, with few allergy problems and good racing, turned into a wheezy summer when the grass pollen starting pollinating.
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posted by DL Byron on June 15, 2006
Attensa just mailed out a lovely email about the upcoming Blogging for Business Seminar and book signing in LA. The 4 ways to get started with business blogs and RSS include
While it’s filling up, there are still seats available for the seminar, I’ll be there with New Riders, speaking and signing books, and I hope you can join us. It’s going to be a great event and the Hotel Delfina has got “coastal latitude and modern attitude.”
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posted by DL Byron on June 15, 2006
Every-time I happen upon a MySpace page, my standards faith is shaken. It starts with a “what the fuck is this,” then a cold realization that when consumers want to show off their coolest self, they don’t care about how that self is coded. They just want to upload everything they can and put it all over a web page.
So what does MySpace say to the standards and design community? Fuck you and your XHTML.
In Web 2.0, and social networking, and whatever flava-of-the-month we call it, all that was is again and we full-circle right on back to the look-at-me-and-my-flaming-logo GeoCities homepages.
Even though I was less vocal during the authoring of the book, we wrote about standards at length, the history of WaSP, why standards are imperative for businesses, and how Microformats could be a game changer. I sure hope that effort wasn’t for nothing and when those drunk on Web 2.0, wake up all blurry-eyed, head pounding like a bad cocaine hangover from the 80s, we’ll all remember our Web values and faith will be restored.
Until then, I feel a bit lost. Riding my bike helps.
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posted by DL Byron on June 15, 2006
Bike Hugger, a blog for the cyclist enthusiast soft launched yesterday. We’ve been designing and developing the blog quietly after the book authoring and in-between new client work. Of note
With direction from me, Scott and Matthew got the Bike Hugger vibe down, Frank Steele will contribute mostly, and we’re working with sponsors, have product reviews, and more coming up. Thanks to Mie and all that looked, reviewed, and commented on earlier versions.
Our launch sponsor is Colorado Ski Country USA and the concept for the blog was thought of during a trip to CO we took where I spoke and rode an epic ride.
During that ride, I thought, “damn, other cyclists, need to know about this!” and they will with Bike Hugger.
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posted by DL Byron on June 12, 2006
One of our new clients is Attensa. I met them during the Six Apart Attensa Blogging for Business Seminars, we talked a lot in San Francisco and New York, and started working with them this week on their brand, blogging, and marketing. As I said, “we’re going to make sense of Attensa,” a smart company that’s developing business class RSS.
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posted by DL Byron on June 12, 2006
Rachel Andrew posts about her shiny new edgeofmyseat.com website, identity, client work, and more. The chair reminds me of the Maxell Blown Away guy, with less blowing and more relaxing.
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posted by DL Byron on June 12, 2006
I’ll be in Santa Monica next week, hanging with Colorado Ski Country USA, Six Apart, Attensa, and a bunch of bloggers for the Blogging for Business Seminar and coffee break to celebrate the release of our book.
As Jason said, the Sheraton Delfina is da shiznit and it’s going to be a good time. If you’re in or near LA and want to come to the coffee break with the book, just let me know.
The details:
Publish & Prosper Coffee Break LA
Sponsored by Colorado Ski Country USA & Textura Design, Inc., June 22nd, 2:30 PST, Sheraton Delfina, Lucina Room.
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posted by DL Byron on June 12, 2006
For the first time ever, developers (and anyone) can see Movable Type being created live at code.sixpart.com. You can get the latest code at any time, or even set your site up to automatically pull the latest code periodically with a Subversion client. Six Apart will announce the details, along with Beta 2, later today. As Jay Allen told me, the MT fan boys and girls are going to go crazy over this.
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posted by DL Byron on June 09, 2006
The Ditty Bops are blogging a bicycle tour across America in support of cycling, clean air, and their new album Moon Over the Freeway.
The cycling Betties just started their journey for good music and good riding and are being helped by the Adventure Cycling Association. I couldn’t find their route, but they should include Portland where they could get the key to the city during Pedalpalooza!
For more on the Ditty Bops, check their Myspace and of note is how the music industry is tapping into cycling culture.
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posted by DL Byron on June 09, 2006
Well, as Wagstaff noticed, I’m blogging about urban dogs for the mainstream media and concluded that makes me a citizen journalist. Crap! Do I have ethics now? No more schwag? Can I not accept a junket from Purina?
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posted by DL Byron on June 07, 2006
City Dog Life went live today on the Seattle PI. I’m blogging there about life with urban dogs. It’s an extension of Pug Blog for a broader audience and fellow city-dwelling, dog owners.
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posted by DL Byron on June 05, 2006
Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business has been released! It’s now shipping from Amazon.com, Peachpit, and should be in stores this week at Barnes & Noble.
I emailed all the blogs mentioned over the weekend and now hope for positive reviews. I’m blogging more about the book on the Blog Book Blog.
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posted by DL Byron on June 04, 2006
Amazon recently forced it’s merchants to get Universal Product Codes, so ok for Clip-n-Seal, I had to figure that all out, join the Uniform Code Council, and start generating codes. We only have 6 Clip-n-Seal products, 99 UPCs, and that means I’m gonna generate codes for myself, family, and whoever or whatever else.
I used the free Free online Barcode generator from Barcodes Inc to generate our labels. They also have a free barcode font. To learn more about UPCs, check
And you can start generating your own barcodes, even and just to label yourself.
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posted by DL Byron on June 01, 2006
In an article about Jet Blue’s new JKF terminal, Jessie Green studies the behavior of crowds in the city, buildings, airports and how design can choreograph movement.
Retailers have long studied crowd behavior and use it to determine where to place aisles, impulse items, and check out lanes (Apple Store’s have that down). The architectural insights in the article from Jerry Mitchel and David Rockwell are to think of crowd flow like white-water rafting: “follow the water because it avoids the rocks.”
Avoiding the rocks also applies to project work (see a flowing approach at Kinkless GTD ) and I hope eventually shopping cart design. The pixie dust of Amazon.com is that it’s a bazaar with millions of items all over the place that can be easily bought with one-click. Same thing with iTunes that uses Amazon’s technology. For all those other carts, including our own at Clip-n-Seal, I hope the hype of Web 2.0 will eventually lead to easier shopping. I often note when speaking how it’s been like 12 years of shopping on the web and it’s still entirely too hard to do with lots of rapids, rocks, no flow. Try buying something at REI as an example or Nordstroms or anyone else that isn’t iTunes or Amazon.
I hope the next generation of web developers eventually focus their code on shopping. Just imagine what a 37 Signals shopping widget would look like — it’d be a whole lot less of all that a shopper doesn’t need. Or if Mike Davidson added shopping to Newsvine. Simple, flowing, like water around rocks, a simpler bag clip a better jewelbox, or a Jimi Wallet.
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