The future of blogging is… blogging.
About a month ago (that’s forever in internet years) Marco posted the note Google and blogs: “Shit.” where the general thought was that his blog traffic was flat and starting to decline over the last...
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chuqui.com in 2014: Site in Review and Lessons Learned
The end of 2014 is a good time to take a step back, look at how the things you do have moved forward (or not), and decide what needs to be changed (if anything). I’ve already decided to redesign my...
View ArticlePlans for 2015
The Christmas/family obligations are done for the year and I’ve returned from Southern California alive and ready for a few days off before going back to work. With the holidays behind me, I’m hoping I...
View ArticleSome back of the envelope calculations on web site costs
Okay, I promised myself I wouldn’t do this because I know I don’t have time for this project, and then I went and did it anyway, of course. So I’m putting it here as much for my ability to reference it...
View ArticleBlog tools updates (a few quick geek notes)
I noticed that the WordPress folks released version 4.0 today. Before I upgrade the main site, I wanted to do some compatibility testing, so I spun up a quick test system, loaded it up, and than...
View ArticleI suddenly found myself in the middle of a site redesign…
It wasn’t in my plans, but without really realizing it, I found myself elbow deep in my site doing a bunch of redesign and working on a lot of the guts normal humans never see. This is all stuff that’s...
View ArticleTo Brand, or Not to Brand. That is the Question
One of the decisions I spent a lot of time thinking about was the question of branding. I knew the “Chuqui 3.0″ concept had run its course. When I was leaving Apple I was in process of making...
View ArticleWhen you open up the hood…
You can always tell the people who don’t work on web sites on a day to day basis. They are the people that think that You can actually finish a web site, as opposed to ship it. Think that the content...
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A Cute Smugmug Hack on Embeddable Links
Here’s a quick little hack I found while doing some tweaking on the blog the other evening. It turns out the images used to embed the image in the blog is versioned. Take this image: Smugmug gives you...
View ArticleLessons Learned with ‘For Your Consideration’
For the last three months I’ve been running a site called For Your Consideration, which is an experiment in curation of content. That’s long enough to give me enough data to evaluate it and decide on...
View Article2013 in Review: Best of chuqui.com
2013 was a good year and to some degree a transition year. I hit a point in my photography where I had to take a step away and figure out what I wanted to do with a camera — taking pictures wasn’t...
View ArticleAnnouncing ‘For Your Consideration’— Things to Ponder and Enjoy
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve launched a project I’ve been working on for the last couple of months. For Your Consideration Things to Ponder and Enjoy For Your Consideration is my attempt to...
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Thinking about Blog Content – and asking what you want more (and less) of.
One of the things I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks has been trying to figure out exactly what I want this blog to be about, and what has value in the greater scheme of things. The thing is,...
View ArticleWhy i love prototypes….
I sort of apologize for the relative quiet on the blog the last week or so. I’ve been off geeking my way through a project, and it’s borrowed most of my free time attention. What I’ve been working on...
View ArticleTo Brand, or Not to Brand. That is the Question
One of the decisions I spent a lot of time thinking about was the question of branding. I knew the “Chuqui 3.0″ concept had run its course. When I was leaving Apple I was in process of making...
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Thinking about the blog and site in 2012
One of the things I’ve been putting a lot of thought into the last couple of months is the blog, my website on chuqui.com, and the various pieces that connect into my online presence. The underlying...
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New Toys: Wallpapers
One of the things I like for my own use are my favorite images formatted for easy use as wallpapers on my computers and other devices. In the past I typically just hacked things together or used what...
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Building Flash-free galleries for the new Smugmug
When Smugmug released their new design, I was impressed, and I decided it made sense to move my photos and portfolio galleries over to their system. On my site, this meant replacing my existing...
View ArticlePrints now available (and other site updates)
Laurie and I just spent a week in Oregon on vacation, where, among other things, we actually took a vacation, and surprisingly enough (given my history) that involved a lot of not being online and not...
View ArticleHow much we assume the existence of the net….
It’s amazing how integrated the internet has become in most of our lives, and how much we’ve come to assume it’s there. When you take a step back and think about how it’s changed things, it’s rather...
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