I learned the word “curator” as a kid in elementary school while reading a fictional story about an art heist at a museum. The museum’s curator wasn’t happy about that. The word “curate” has since been used in many – too many – other ways. I thought it was an overdone example of storytelling...
This month my project team launched the new website for the Monterey County Association of Realtors, or MCAR, a trade group in Northern California. The new association website is a balance of design, branding, ease of use and a tool for curating large amounts of content for a large audience of site visitors. “Curating”...
The political business is rife with sayings of conventional wisdom that are either thought-provoking, like “Praise in public and criticize in private”, or darkly funny, like “If you want a friend, get a dog”, or both. A whole dictionary of sayings about leadership is also in wide circulation, like “If you are one step...
I was going to write more about APIs and how they are not only the future of data on the web but also the future of data in real estate. APIs – in particular a flavor called REST API – allow for a universal way for devices, websites and databases to talk to each...
Or, How to Annoy Your Customers in One Easy Step Manufacturers, web developers, coffeepot makers: anyone who actual makes stuff must have a love-hate relationship with backwards compatibility, where a product can use components of older versions of itself. This is not “planned obsolescence”, that cynical phrase getting people to buy, say, a new car every...