It’s been a little quiet on the AU blog this past week, in part because my schedule’s been upside down, and in part because I’m working on a move from Blogger to the Always Upward website. This is no small undertaking-—especially for someone who doesn’t live, eat, and breathe code.
Until the new digs are ready, I’ll continue posting here. As soon as I think the floor is solid and the roof won’t leak, you’ll be the first to know it’s time to move over to the new address.
Think good thoughts. This is turning out to be a much more complex experience than building my own websites has been. Much more complex.
For those of us graphically inclined, word clouds are cool and high impact.
For those of us more analytically wired, word clouds are data cells that reflect fact.
For those of us whose brains buzz on both sides, word clouds are a quick, one glance way to learn a heck of a lot about a document, web page, or other text-rich entity. The one above tells the Always Upward story, in under five seconds. Pretty effective, huh?
To create your own (free!) word cloud, visit the Wordle site. Have to admit, it’s kind of fun….
Finally. The new site is now fully functional, complete with the automatic entry to the site. No more need to jiggle the doorknob (aka: click on “skip intro” link).
Big thanks to Linda and Martin on the Adobe User Forums for holding my hand through this.
Well, I finally got it finished-—the new and improved Always Upward website just went live, and it’s about a thousand percent better than the three page “slap somethin’ up there before market season begins” version folks have been staring at. It’s a pretty major overhaul…not just scooting the furniture around the room to make things look different.
The only hitch is that you have to manually click on the “skip intro” link to move to the home page. No clue why…that’s never been an issue. With luck (and help from some techie friends), that will be cleared up soon. Until then, gotta actually turn the door handle to enter.
Thanks for being patient about this, everyone. It’s been a hectic (in a good way!) summer.
Admission #1: I’m an Apple junkie (duh).
Admission #2: I’m also addicted to “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.”
For those of you who don’t join me in either of those joy-filled habits, this means little. For the rest who recognize Dan Lyons as the guy behind the curtain, well….swan song time.
We, the devoted, knew this day was coming. After outing Lyons as the author of the sometimes raunchy, always cerebral, and constantly entertaining blog supposedly written by Apple’s founder, Forbes began actively supporting-—and advertising on-—the site. Now that Newsweek’s snapped Dan up, well…. The old employer wasn’t likely to continue promoting the author while the new employer had him. End of blog.
This morning, I stumbled across this video of Dan Lyons doing the keynote at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April, before the leap. Gotta admit, he’s funny, in spite of the language (a bit, um, risqué for many) while completely in awe of the fact what began as a joke turned into a cultural bookmark.
Farewell, Fake Steve. We’ll miss you. Namaste.
Editors note: Having had sufficient time to peruse Mr. Lyons’ new blog (posted under his real name), I can’t say the warm fuzzy feelings have held. As himself, he just comes across angry and bitter-—no interesting wit or clever edge to the text. Sorry to say it, but Uncle Steve truly left, in every sense of the word. Bummer.
It’s been a little quiet on the AU blog this past week, in part because my schedule’s been upside down, and in part because I’m working on a move from Blogger to the Always Upward website. This is no small undertaking-—especially for someone who doesn’t live, eat, and breathe code.
