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Why the Bangor Daily News “ad frame” is bad for you, and what to do about it

Links should be free- and users are worth more than a few cents each. Why “ad frames” are bad business for news. My local newspaper, the Bangor Daily News, has made some admirable improvements to its otherwise lackluster website over the past few months. To their credit, they’ve slowly integrated topic and people-based cross-links throughout their […]

Self-examination for Rails

Back in November of 2005, in a comment on his blog, I challenged Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson to write up a post on the “10 Flaws, Problems, or Issues with Ruby on Rails.” Hansson replied to my comment, stating “That’s a good idea. When 1.0 is out I’ll assemble a list of