Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of five videos from various members of our team about our recent redesign of centresource.com. In this video, one of our strategists, Jon, talks about a single word — better. He explains how the web is temporal and constantly changing and how we should stop trying…
Ah, TL;DR. The go-to answer from any web developer who receives an email or blog post that makes their eyes glaze over. TL;DR (too long; didn’t read) is a battle cry for brevity, a filter for signal from the noise. The typical response to such a claim is a simple rewrite: find me the meat…
Sometime in 2012, I made the decision to invest in a standing desk. After seeing terrifying headlines like “He Who Sits the Most Dies the Soonest”, I wanted to make a better health choice for myself. I’m also on my feet a lot anyway—I spend a lot of time consulting with others in the building,…
Who Speaks for the Negro? This week Vanderbilt in conjunction with CentreSource launched a site dedicated to the timeless work of Robert Penn Warren. We are so excited! This was a major undertaking for both our staff and the Robert Penn Warren team at Vanderbilt. In 1965, Random House published Robert Penn Warren’s book titled Who Speaks…
It’s that time again: the FIRST #CSMixer of 2012! Come on out to catch up, network and generally geek out! We’ll have great finger foods and beer graciously provided by our friends at Blackstone. So be sure you RSVP, and we’ll see you all on Thursday!
Today the internet is taking a stand against the Stop Online Piracy Act & the Protect IP Act, commonly referred to as SOPA and PIPA, respectively. You’ve probably seen these protests take shape in various creative, stark forms. Our favorite – you guessed it – comes from Tumblr, who blacked out actual posts from their…
I love Tumblr. It’s the perfect modern blogging platform: built for posts shorter than, well, this one, but for content that’s longer than a 140-character tweet. It’s got amazing social features, too. I follow an astonishing 350 Tumblr blogs personally, which provides me a nice constant feed of content. Tumblr’s great Dashboard provides me the…
Earlier this year, we were honored to be nominated by .net magazine as Agency of the Year. We’re still blown away by it, and it got us thinking: A little while ago, .net announced their 25 favorite books for web designers and developers. We thought their list was pretty stellar, so we decided to celebrate…
As you may know, here at Centresource we employ the ROWE time management system. We’ve talked about it at great length on this blog before, but I’d like to spend a little more time talking about how to effectively implement it on a personal level. As a relatively new hire to the team, and coming…
Productivity expert and snarky blogger/Twitterer Merlin Mann is a personal hero of mine. The guy’s (clearly) got ADD, spins about a thousand plates in his professional and personal lives, and still manages to maintain an output of killer, creative content. Something he recently said resonated with me and caused me to think through how I…
