Republished from the May 28th 2018 Newsletter. Marcel Freinbichler on Twitter: “Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without […]
Newsletter May 21st 2018
Other Newsletters Ed’s Vacuum – vacuum/2018-W20.md – of particular interest is the settlement between Ann Arbor and Dahlmann over the Y Lot. More on that below. Newsletter for May 20, 2018 – Hanging Out with Teacher Patti – Patti has lots of information on the local beer scene. I need to get to Blom Meadworks […]
Newsletter May 14th 2018
Shorter and “late” (you may have your money back) this week. Lots going on personally and professionally and my normal slot I reserved for writing got subsumed by other tasks. Better late than never though. Writing newsletters serves as a great way to think longer-than-social-media thoughts each week; an invaluable exercise in these trying times. […]
The Curse of Getting a Good Gmail Address
Republished from the May 7th 2018 Newsletter. I have the gmail address for my first initial and last name. This is really easy to remember, easy to tell people about, and for some reason every other C Salzman in the world uses it when they sign up for stuff. The latest was getting Clay’s travel […]
Spaces After Periods
Republished from the May 7th 2018 Newsletter. There was a study floating around this past week about how using two periods after spaces was actually correct because they did a Science about it. Unfortunately, the study was about some specific circumstances where it might be true and then the “reporting” morphed that into “Always use […]
Newsletter May 7, 2018
Shorter one today because we spent the weekend out in the sun at Camp Pendalouan celebrating my brother-in-law and sister-in-law’s wedding. We had our wedding there 6 years ago and it was lovely to be back without needing to also do all the extremely fun and draining things one needs to do on their wedding […]
Who should own a website?
Republishing from the April 30th, 2018 newsletter. Everyone. Everyone would do well to have that place on the internet they can put the thing. I’m a broken record, but twitter and facebook are not that place if you want it to exist in perpetuity (for certain values of perpetuity). My favorite parts of the internet […]
Newsletter April 30, 2018
Other Newsletters Ed’s Vacuum Newsletter for 2018-W17 – lots on local politics, which these days is basically all about the building (or “not building”) of places for people to live. Also, he talks about how to subscribe to the newsletter and the problems therein. Patti Smith has a newsletter too! Newsletter 4/29/18 – Ann Arbor […]
Making Sure Someone Sees It
Republishing from the April 30th, 2018 newsletter. Two of the other newsletters this week mention a problem that anyone who creates anything runs into: how do you make sure that everyone who should see it actually sees it? Marketing at its best is essentially finding an answer to this. A market for whatever niche content […]
Newsletter April 23, 2018
Ed’s Newsletter and the Dramatic Rescue of Archie Ed’s Vacuum/2018-W16.md is another good one (of course!). Read up on the Y lot vote happening this week, which, woof…it’s acrimonious. Ed also recounts the story of a lost dog that was eventually found via NextDoor. A few months ago we helped get a lost dog back […]