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5:21pm (August 29, 2006) Mark Leppke
Did you notice the scrolling mechanism for the chat is awkward, but easy to get used to...
At first I couldn't figure out how to scroll up to see previous posts, but it looks like the page scroll affects this div etc. Hmmm looks like they used static or absolute placement to throw things on top of the page and just have the chat run the full height.
are they using sIRF or what ever that flash replacement thing for the fonts?
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9:00am (August 30, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
I agree - on the scrolling. it sorta requires a larger window.
I've tried making it a very small browser window, and, well, too much is lost.
on sIRF - I don't think so. I think they're just using Apple's baked-in GillSans...I think anyway.
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9:12am (November 14, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
hey. thanks for stopping by.
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11:08am (November 15, 2006) me
what is this place?
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6:01pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
hey mark.
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Hidie ho!
What's shakin'
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my bottle of Sam Adams. Oh, Barkeep...
6:02pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
nice.
Garrick Van Buren
you?
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Who's all going to be here?
I'm just chillin' at the hizzie, making a back up of a dvd...
6:03pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
nice.
dunno who's going to be here. could be just me and you. who knows.
Mark Leppke
have you seen the new riaa toliet paper?
Garrick Van Buren
ha! no.
Mark Leppke
nothing but the finest for your bathroom pleasure.
6:04pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
oh yeah, and wrapping up some client work.
Mark Leppke
good to hear.
Garrick Van Buren
hey - KARE11 is looking for a webmaster.
Mark Leppke
http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?productID=285
6:05pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
funny.
Mark Leppke
maybe i should take a look. i've stopped job hunting for a while. got tired of the process.
Garrick Van Buren
recorded a podcast w/ the guys from curbly.com this morning.
sure.
6:06pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
nice site... what do they do?
oh
i get it..
Garrick Van Buren
think readymade magazine + myspace.
Mark Leppke
not a bad idea...
Garrick Van Buren
just 2 guys. keeping their overhead low.
trying to make a good product.
6:07pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
the only way to go.
more people = more choas
Garrick Van Buren
exactly. not to mention the increased pressures on revenue.
6:08pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
i've been drinking from the corporate teet too long. i see it too often.
plus politics get weird.
Garrick Van Buren
made me feel the same way.
hey, so wanna talk MNteractive 2007?
6:10pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
biked in to work on monday, going tomorrow as well. perfect last couple of days. MNteractive... sure you bet.
Where is it going. what are we adding?
Garrick Van Buren
awesome. you're getting some good mileage on the bike before winter.
so - I'm thinking of building a network behind it.
6:11pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
'right.
Garrick Van Buren
a la blogger.com
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so it becomes even more community driven...
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and build a theme to make it super easy to host design portfolios.
6:12pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
gotcha...
i could see it then being a resource for job hunting, and business dealing...
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what do you think?
definitely. that's the idea.
be a non-$300 alternative to AIGA.
6:13pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
if the workflow and interface works, and it gets the peeps. you bet.
knowing our group, the IA will be stellar.
6:14pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
or completely ignored.
Mark Leppke
all it needs is a search box.
Garrick Van Buren
nice.
6:15pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
So will the entry still be the blog?
or will the blog be 2ndary.
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yes - some uber-blog.
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Gotcha.
Garrick Van Buren
maybe a best-of.
edited by folks like you and me.
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Core blogers and folks sampled from within.
Garrick Van Buren
exactly.
6:16pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
same page. ok.
Garrick Van Buren
best posts of the day/week/discipline.
each new blog can have it's own theme.
so, I'd like to make the existing theme the default.
Mark Leppke
doable.
we should touch up the theme while w're at it. the new wordpress changed the format a bit...
6:17pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
what would you like to change on the site?
6:18pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
besides touching up the site. we should have some more tasty content.
Garrick Van Buren
yeah. hell yeah.
that's my goal for 2007 - get greater engagement from contributors.
Mark Leppke
content, like how tos, best practices.
Garrick Van Buren
nice.
Mark Leppke
often i find myself using it to vent, but that doesn't get eyeballs
6:19pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
good idea. hmmm. maybe introduce a 'things we'd like articles about' section.
Mark Leppke
Maybe a content series?
Garrick Van Buren
yeah - how-to gets lots of google juice.
6:20pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
I like the proposal section. folks can submit disired content...
is there a way to make our tags more managable? the long list is a bit much... intimidating. Hate to copy digg, but it's a good take on it.
6:21pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
where are diggs tags?
6:22pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
http://www.digg.com/
at the far left.
Garrick Van Buren
topics?
Mark Leppke
uses OL and javascript to hide the 2ndary areas...
6:23pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
oh sure.
gotcha.
Mark Leppke
Maybe, don't want to wreck the community driven aspect.
Garrick Van Buren
I'd been wondering about re-org-ing the categories as well.
6:24pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
hmmm
will this still be wordpress driven?
Garrick Van Buren
this ties into our earlier talk about 'how-tos' etc.
yeah. wordpress multi-user.
the engine behind wordpress.com
6:25pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
Maybe our first how to. how to set up mnteractive.com and our experience?
Garrick Van Buren
nice.
6:26pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
then dive into some best practices, guides on bloggin. etc.
6:27pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
what do you think about a agency/firm directory?
Mark Leppke
ala firmlist, but local?
Garrick Van Buren
and current
6:28pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
true.
hmmm anyway to get our past educators into the mix?
6:29pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
our past educators?
Mark Leppke
design theory articles writen by stout teachers?
6:30pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
i would like to get both students and profs involved.
Mark Leppke
how to design for a blog, and have students join mnteractive to do so...
Garrick Van Buren
haven't had a lot of response from profs.
nice. exactly - make the theme a design projec.t
6:31pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
silly profs.
Garrick Van Buren
I know.
I don't quite get it.
Mark Leppke
well do it ourselfs. make the project, set the terms, requirements, etc. and send it to the students ourselfs.
Garrick Van Buren
don't they know we're the future of design
love it.
trick is getting the word to the students.
6:32pm (November 21, 2006) Mark Leppke
na, the latest flash game, ooooh. it's sooo cooool.
students are tough. flyers, at schools, lectures, etc.
maybe time for me to do AIGA again next year.
6:33pm (November 21, 2006) Garrick Van Buren
as a rogue operative
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