So I hadn’t tweeted announcements of my Blogathon blog posts for fear of totally spamming the hell out of my Twitter, but everyone else seems to be doing it — and in fact, are surprised that I’m not. So what the heck, let’s do this. I’m told WordTwit is the “dear Twitter: I posted on […]
Posts Categorized: Blogathon 2009
Blogathon 2009: Infographics Part 2: The New York Times gets it right
While I found the CBC’s efforts lacking, the New York Times uses “interactive features” very effectively. These little boxes? They fly around and convey information effectively. For instance, this infographic from last year uses area and two states to visualize the loss of over $88 billion in value during the collapse of the US banking […]
Blogathon 2009: Infographics, Part 1: Why the CBC sucks
Okay, this is something that has bugged me for a while. People who say “interactive” when they mean “hard to use” and “Flash scrollbars”. While otherwise a competent, irritatingly underfunded news organization, the CBC sucks at infographics. Most of their “interactive features” are just text that requires a lot of clicking and scrolling to read. […]
Blogathon 2009: The Typography of Idiocracy
So I’m a giant typography nerd, as any of my friends can attest: Me: “Hey, a friend of a friend designed the font they’re using in that logo!“ Every single other person I know: “Yeah, that’s super, Catherine.” As such, I enjoyed this analysis of the fonts and branding featured in Mike Judge’s 2007 eugenicist […]
Blogathon 2009: Brewery Creek & Tea Swamp
So when I’m not trying to rattle off 50 blog posts a day from Gastown, I live at the bottom of two hills on an avenue I will describe for hipster-credibility purposes as “just off Main Street.” I’m cool now, right guys? My house is situated directly on top of Tea Swamp, an offshoot of Brewery […]
“49 posts? How short can they be?”
The question I’ve been asked more than “why?” or, “are you drunk?” is, “how short can your posts be”? This is a good question! I suppose brevity IS fastest, but there’s something dissatisfying about “only” taking 30 minutes for a blog post. Surely there must be a clever way to make it look as though […]
Blogathon 2009: In Which Catherine Arrives At Workspace.
So I just swept in the door here at Workspace, Blogathon supplies and giant bike in hand, my blog post already late… I wasn’t sure what to expect, but 10 people sitting intently, more silent than a library? Yeah, that wasn’t it. Naturally, I would have had to have opted for the extra loud-and-obnoxious zippers […]
Blogathon 2009 Agenda
So yeah, judging from my Twitter feed, it seems like a lot of Blogathonners have already come up with some good outlines for posts. Mmm, interesting choice. I, on the other hand, am pretty much winging this. Bad. Ass. So what’s on the docket for today? I’m planning on sharing some recent WordPress discoveries, complaining about everything […]
Blogathon 2009: The Get-Out-Of-Beddening.
Fans, I’m up bright and early and set for a full 24 hours of blogging. The temperature is supposed to get up to 27 today, and I’m hoping for some wind to keep things cool. Thankfully, I’m not blogging from home, but rather, I’ll be heading down to the blogging sweatshop that is Workspace shortly […]
Blogathon 2009: In which Catherine supports cancer research
I’m happy to announce that this Saturday, July 25th, I’ll be participating in Blogathon 2009. My charitable organization of choice? The Canadian Cancer Society. “So wait, what’s Blogathon?” you may ask, your brow wrinkling up in skepticism. Allow me to explain! Starting at 6am, I write 48 blog posts, once every half hour, for 24 […]