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Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

by David | Jun 9, 2018 | Amusing Nonsense, Digital Migration, Foodstuffs, Gulp With Enthusiasm, Sip With Assurance

Like many journalists turned multimedia world travelers, I envied Anthony Bourdain. It seemed like he had the greatest job in the world. Travel to amazing places, hang out with the smartest, most interesting people around, eat delicious, innovative food, and get paid...

Tech Writing in the Voice of an Erudite 19th Century Gentleman

by David | Feb 15, 2018 | Amusing Nonsense, Gulp With Enthusiasm, Mobile commerce, Sip With Assurance

If we’re going to have to suffer through endless TOS statements, they might as well be fun to read I seem to have struck some kind of nerve this week in responding to a whimsical Tweet referencing something that we are all guilty of – losing focus while...

CSS 4: the Web Design Standard that Doesn’t Exist. Only It Does. Confused Yet?

by David | Jan 15, 2018 | Design, Digital Migration, UX/UI

Yesterday, upon the stair/ I saw a web design standard that was not there/ It was not there again today/ Gee, I wish it’d go away… Years ago, I helped the lovely & brilliant Janine Warner create books, classes and training videos about web design. This...

Uncovering Ad Fraud at Financial Times: $1.3 Million PER MONTH

by David | Sep 27, 2017 | adsense clickfraud, advertising

Investigation reveals “organized crime” at one paper – how many more are undiscovered? I know that I sound like a broken record on this subject, but for God’s sake, it’s been 3 years now since pretty much everybody in the digital ad...

Shwedagon Pagoda and Dave by Night

by David | Aug 4, 2017 | Design

As with so many major cities in Asia, the ancient and the modern exist side-by-side.
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