The Fearless Blogger

Alister Cameron is currently running a contest called The Hunt for the Coolest Twitter Background. As soon as I read about it, I was immediately a fan of the idea.   I asked Alister (via Twitter) what inspired him to run the contest and his response was:

I was inspired by the desire to acknowledge people who’ve found ways to make their Twitter page background/colour look great. Also that, to my knowledge, no one has paid attention to twitter page design, period. And I wanted to! Finally… more on this later, I am using my competition to prove a point about strategic use of twitter.

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Something I enjoy about the holidays is the cross-generational conversations family gatherings provide.

One cousin just learned to drive, a nephew is learning to walk, an aunt just started a new job . . . and Grandpa sits back smiling, observing, absorbing, basking in the glow of bringing family together.

photo credit: Bryan Ledgard

It occurred to me that Twitter is a bit like that family gathering; and we’re all a bit like Grandpa. read more

A while back I had made some badges for Chris Brogan’s Rockstar program.

Since Chris just launched his site’s redesign today, I made these new badges for those rockstars who’d like to continue to match his color scheme!

For those not familiar with Chris’s blog, it’s an excellent resource for insights and advice on blogging and social media. read more

Write something about design.

Design. It’s a pretty big topic.

To try to focus myself on a more specific aspect of the topic, I looked up the definition of “design”.

Here is part of what I found read more

this is a repost, since the first attempt seemed to have some sort of formatting quirk

I’ve been playing with my scanner to create some backgrounds, textures, and other graphics. Here are (reduced size) samples of some of the files I’ve created.  (Yes, I actually scanned a tortilla!)

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