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Payday for Banks

09.23.2008 · Posted in News

A horrifying component of the ongoing financial and banking industry scandal – and I call a scandal, not a meltdown or crisis – involves the fact that the Federal Reserve stopped tracking M3 in 2006. What is M3? Let us explore, for a moment, the Wikipedia entry on Money Supply. M0: Physical currency. A measure of the money supply ...

Free Pass! (For me)

09.23.2008 · Posted in Uncategorized

Karine Joly of the awesome www.collegewebeditor.com sent out a call for interesting ideas to promote the Beyond YouTube webinar, scheduled for this week. Apparently, my suggestion of making a virally Youtube video to advertise it earned me a free pass to attend the webinar. I’ve already cleared my calendar for it. ...

PR Week

09.22.2008 · Posted in Uncategorized

I just subscribed to PR Week. It was a very spendy price, but considering how rarely I go to movies, out to the mall, or to any type of outside entertainment, having a weekly installment of a print magazine that I can carry around to read in my downtime – waiting in the car, hiding ...

Font Friday: Epilog

09.19.2008 · Posted in Design

I love the angles and unevenness of this font. This would be great for a poster or other sort of titling. I’d love to use it in a multimedia presentation – something to give a little bit of casual flavor to something that you would expect more formality in. ...

The Le Moyne Facelift

09.16.2008 · Posted in Web Design and Development

While browsing around other college web sites, searching for inspiration, I saw that Le Moyne College has launched a new web design. They went with a fluid rather than a fixed layout, which is a design choice I’ve never made. Combined with Le Moyne’s alumni site and new athletics site, they’ve implemented a rather solid web presence. By making the ...