Uneasy Rhetoric

I never intended Uneasy Rhetoric to be a personal blog, exactly. I had a narrow focus in mind but, blogs being the organic things they are, Uneasy Rhetoric has grown and changed into something much more diffuse. So I thought I’d take a moment to layout where I’d like to take Uneasy Rhetoric.
First, [...]

Well, thanks to the Sacramento Bee, my blog is no longer “semi-anonymous” (yes, they did have my permission). Look for some wholesale changes to the “rationale” page in the next few weeks.
I enjoyed talking to the Bee reporter (Erika Chavez) and thought her story was well done. I especially enjoyed the juxtaposition of [...]

Hey! Is that Stephen Hawking reading my blog? I know, he’s an easy target. I just signed up for feed2podcast in order to give it a try. This is a service that takes your RSS feed and uses robot readers to read your blog.
It isn’t quite ready for prime time. The [...]

It might be worth mentioning that my “sideblog,” “remaindered links,” “asides,” whatever you want to call it/them, is/are back. I tried to code it within WordPress so that my “asides” would show up in the RSS feed as regular posts. Unfortunately, I couldn’t seem to get any code to work in one place [...]

Jakob Nielsen posts Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. Here’s a bit of transparency for you. I’m going to go down the list and analyze my own site. I’ll also make snarky editorial comments because I think the article, to some degree, misses the point. His advice would be spot-on [...]