Written By: darien on June 25, 2009 2 Comments
News at the speed of web-chatter:  what Michael Jackson can teach us about ‘News 2.0.’

It’s 3:45 PM Pacific Time, and even though no one seems to have confirmed the reports, every major media outlet is reporting that Michael Jackson has died.  Regardless of the verity of the reports, I think that watching the story grow on Facebook and Twitter over the last half hour has highlighted a couple of [...]

Written By: darien on June 21, 2009 One Comment
A Hard Gay Father’s Day!

Hard Gay is on a mission to make sure that today’s youth are grateful to their fathers (or ‘daddies’, as the case may be).  Happy Father’s Day!  Hoooooooooo!

Written By: darien on June 17, 2009 One Comment

Repost from YongoPal:

Just wanted to write a really brief update. Yesterday, Jon and I met with our developers for the first time since they started coding a couple of weeks back. We weren’t expecting to see much, but they actually had a lot to show for two weeks of work. Everything’s [...]

Written By: darien on June 12, 2009 No Comment
Strategic partnerships: a rubric for determining compatibility


Repost from YongoPal:

Early last week, I was connected with the CEO of another company that offers online English lesson services to South Korean students. The company is based in the Philippines, and their angle is to provide inexpensive ESL services by leveraging Filipino English speakers as teachers and tutors — something not [...]

Written By: darien on June 12, 2009 4 Comments
The Daily Show as media watchdog

This recent episode of The Daily Show really crystallizes everything that I’ve been saying about it since the beginning of the Obama presidency.  For the past eight years, the show’s content was directed largely at criticizing the Bush presidency.  And who can blame them?  Those jokes wrote themselves.

Now that the Bush administration [...]

Written By: darien on June 9, 2009 No Comment

A ‘Saved by the Bell‘ reunion?!  This excites me way more than it probably should, but I feel like I grew up with these guys…

Written By: darien on June 5, 2009 No Comment
A testament to my nerdiness

So it’s been a while since I’ve updated here.  I spent the last two weeks in the Washington DC area, visiting family and attending a cousin’s wedding.  It was good to see everyone again, but I’m also glad to be home and getting back to business.

Today, however, I had to take care of something that [...]

Written By: darien on May 23, 2009 2 Comments
Simplicity as a radical design concept; Korea loves clutter

Repost from YongoPal:

I found myself chatting with my brother today about something that I think is worth a mention here. Since the beginning, we have recognized that Koreans adhere to very different conventions of web design than we are used to here. The differences make themselves obvious if you compare

Written By: darien on May 20, 2009 One Comment
I totally took Miss Alaska to the Rickshaw

Last night, my friend Stephany was in town. She had an evening stopover in Seattle because she was flying out of SeaTac this morning, so I had an opportunity to take her out and catch up and try to convince her to move here. Oh yeah, and she’s Miss Alaska.

As with [...]

Written By: darien on May 20, 2009 No Comment

Repost from YongoPal:

As was the case with our name and logo several months back, it’s the most superficial stuff that tends to get us the most excited. We have a book of flowcharts specifying out every conceivable way that someone could interface with our website, properly and improperly. It’s the [...]

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