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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Just a quick word to let everyone know I'm still alive and that I've largely abandoned this platform for two solutions that I find immensely more satisfying.
1) Cargo Collective — This is where my portfolio lives now. The tools they provide to users are incredible and I feel like this is a much better place to maintain an updated work presence: http://cargocollective.com/loganmills
2) Flavors.me — Flavors is probably even more technically impressive than CC, but rather than show work stuff it aggregates a lot of my other internet data (Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, etc). I heartily recommend you try it for yourself, but in the meantime here's mine: http://flavors.me/loganmills
This might be the last post here for awhile, please visit these two new sites and let me know what you think. I'm also currently accepting freelance design and illustration work, if you're interested please email me: loganmills@gmail.com
Tags: bye bye, cargo, flavors
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MunkyButler.com
Friday, July 24th, 2009
Just a quick note to let everyone know that munkybutler.com, a new social networking site that Media Genesis developed, is now live. I got to work on this (specifically the name and logo, above) so it's exciting for me to see it finally released into "the wild."
Side note: apparently to help promote the launch there are guys in monkey suits performing zany stunts all over metro Detroit right now, so if you're heading downtown today don't bring any bananas or anything (and if you do, make sure you keep your eyes "peeled" for any suspicious activity).
Tags: logo, mediag, munkeybutler
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Twitter article
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
The article I wrote on Twitter for the Media Genesis newsletter is now live. You can read it (and subscribe to the newsletter) here.
Tags: mediag, newsletter, twitter
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Facebook/Engagement
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I mentioned briefly in the last post that I got engaged, but I feel like I have to share one other bit of info about how it went down. The creepiest/most unusual thing about Facebook by far are the "relationship status" updates; Stacey and I decided to fully embrace this by breaking the news to all but our closest friends/relations via this cold new interface. What I didn't expect was the hillarity of what you see above -- how much of a nerd fucking awesome am I that it was only 31 minutes after my girlfriend publicly acknowledged she liked Star Trek DS9 that I committed the rest of my days to her?
Tags: ds9, facebook, wedding
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Not So Cuil
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
So today was the launch of cuil.com (pronounced like "cool" I guess?), the supposed Google-killer. The main draw is that they index three times as many sites as the big G, but after a bit of testing I don't think Google has much to worry about. The site is a little on the slow side, although they just launched so I can overlook this for now. The main problem is with the results -- for some reason they think it's "cuil" to show them as columns, so you maybe get 12-15 results per page (with a lot of scroll). There's also no clear ranking of items per page; I can pretty safely assume that the top left result is first, but after that it's a crapshoot. But the most bizarre thing though has to be the images associated with each search result. This probably seemed really clever on the drawing board but in practice it just doesn't work -- unless someone changed my personal portfolio site to a Pop Culture Trivia page while I wasn't looking.
Tags: cuil, fail, usability
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Websites as Graphs
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Just found this neat little web app(let) that creates a graph of any site online. Different color dots represent different tags of html code, although I don't think I'm quite proficient enough with HTML to take anything really meaningful away from the graph. Above is the parent page of this blog, website13156 (aka my design portfolio page). Check it out yourself, just replace the address in this url.
via Coudal
Tags: graph, website
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
I've been really busy at work lately, mostly because three us moved into a design-centric office and I got a new rig. Between that and some freelance work this weekend, I've been too busy to think of a proper blog post, but not, however, too busy to post to Twitter. It seems like this has caught on with my circle of friends in a big way pretty recently, and as such I've been paying more attention to my once-neglected account. In case anyone is interested, here's my account. Drop me a line in the comments if you have any good Twitter anecdotes or feel like sharing your ID.
Tags: twitter
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