Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

Life in the Fast Lane

I have been rather busy lately and posts have been rare — this entry will explain some of the rea­sons but will prob­a­bly leave you with more ques­tions than answers. Bear with me. In a few weeks time you will know why. Right, let’s start some rumors.

First. I will be mov­ing to Italy in Sep­tem­ber. Some of you may know why, yet some of you may have to wait a lit­tle before under­stand­ing what the heck is going on. It may not come as a sur­prise to you that this new endeavor is design related. This deci­sion will change my life and career. Trust me.

Sec­ond. I will have my own blog. Yes. I must be the last designer in this busi­ness not to have his own blog. That will change. I’m cur­rently work­ing hard to get every­thing ready and fig­ure out how to hack my way through Mov­able Type 3.0. Yes, I did cough up the $69. Six Apart needs to make money too, you know.

So why leave SB? There are a few rea­sons. First and fore­most I want my own design. Some­thing I can play with and change the way I see fit. Fur­ther­more my own blog will be asso­ci­ated with my voice more clearly. Expect some thought pro­vok­ing con­tent in the future. So when will it launch? Ah, good ques­tion. I can’t let you know an exact date at this time. But in a few weeks is prob­a­bly real­is­tic. Don’t worry, you will hear about it.

Third. You prob­a­bly noticed that there have not been any new issues of FAST, Week­end Read­ing and Guru on Paper. Again this is due to the lack of time at the moment. As any blog­ger knows, qual­ity con­tent takes time. Blog­ging in gen­eral takes time and ded­i­ca­tion. In the com­ing weeks you should not expect a whole lot of posts. But I will be back (you know how to pro­nounce that…)

Some links

To avoid post­ing an entry exclu­sively about me, here are some links to note­wor­thy stuff related to design, usabil­ity, blog­ging and what not.

• 
  90% of All Usabil­ity Test­ing is Use­less
  
  Lane Becker — Adap­tive Path
  
• 
  Thou­sands of Blogs Fall Silent
  
  Michelle Delio — Wired
  
• 
  Brand You Sur­vival Kit
  
  Tom Peters — Fast Com­pany
  
• 
  That Wicked Worn Look: Part 4
  
  Cameron Moll — Authen­tic Bore­dom
  
• 
  Mov­able Type Pric­ing and Licens­ing Struc­ture Changes
  
  Jason Kottke

  Note: I think Jason is wrong to a cer­tain degree. Pric­ing can not be a mat­ter of iter­a­tion using cus­tomer feed­back but of mar­ket and busi­ness dynam­ics. If cus­tomers set the price you will be out of busi­ness before even sell­ing any­thing. Now if only Jason had enabled com­ments.
  

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Wednesday, June 16th, 2004.

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