Presidential Campaign Online Spending Sliver of Total

The 2008 Presidential elections by McCain and Obama spent $866M of the total $1B raised. How much went to online advertising?
According to ClickZ, a total of $7.97 million was spent on Web ads in ‘08 through October by the Obama campaign alone. That’s right, of the $573M Obama spent on his [...]

Introduction to the Internet (circa 1995)

All you need to do to experience the animation video is

386 speed minimum
8 MB of RAM
14.4 or greater speed modem
a phone line

If you have a slower connection, you may not experience the image, sound, and animation to its fullest effect.
Beware — they will be using terms such as “homepage” and “website” throughout the video.
Getting Started
If [...]

Improve your work/life usability

November 8th was World Usability Day –”founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.” At its foundation is the belief that technology should make things easier rather than harder, more complicated or stressful. Yet, when you see your colleague whip out their [...]

Atlanta web design and web development firms — does largest = best?

The Atlanta Business Chronicle’s annual list of Largest Web Design and Web Development firms in Atlanta was released this week. The list ranks the top 25 web design and development companies in Atlanta according to set criteria. This year, it was full-time Atlanta staff. Check out the list below — hey, we’ve [...]

A call to all web design and web developers — stop spec work

Dan Dooley over at Spunlogic had an interesting post on spec work. His argument was that firms that invest in the practice of spec creative are doing so because they don’t invest in “practicing what they preach” / “invest in their own brands.” That is, the fault of being requested to provide [...]