Posted on August 20, 2009 by Mike Rankin
And we’re back. Sometime Monday the domain mapping that transforms mild-mannered “pubtech.wordpress.com” to it’s super hero identity “publicious.net” expired. Silly me, forgot to pay the bill. For about 48 hours, I was thinking I had offended some very important bots in Internetland. All the incoming links to Publicious disappeared and traffic was down more than 90%. [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by Mike Rankin
3 o’clock – roadblock Hey Mr. Cop, ain’t got no (what you say down there) Ain’t got no birth surfer ticket on me now -Bob Marley, Rebel Music In recent weeks, a growing mob of “birthers” has besieged Publicious World Headquarters, demanding to see my paperwork. They claim certain irregularities in my published documents call [...]
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Posted on June 2, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Back ’07, I went to an Adobe MAX conference in Chicago with Eric. Had a lovely time, enjoyed the vocal stylings of Richard Cheese, and was intrigued by a little thing shown in one of the keynotes, called Thermo. It was a tool that would allow designers to work in their designy ways, and build [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Well, a little. If you like your geek in big thick slabs, check out the Adobe Creative Suite Developer Summit. It runs through Friday, May 15th and offers live, free sessions (via Adobe Connect) on many cutting edge Adobe technologies, including stuff that may find its way into Creative Suite 5. Note that this is [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Happy Birthday, Publicious! One year ago today, I published my first Publicious post. Here we are 150 posts later! This has been incredibly fun, rewarding, and tiring. In honor of the occasion, all of today’s links are staying “in house.” Sort of a Greatest Hits thing. Without further ado, here are the 10 most popular [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Time to crack open a new package of Ramen and see if I can write this post before the noodles turn mushy. Should I mix the usual chicken-MSG bomb or try the organic roasted dandelion root? Life is made of choices. Only the good die young. Elvis is a slick-looking digital asset manager with hooks [...]
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