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It’s A Beach Bash!

Oh yea! Sunday, August 24th, 2008, from 11am - 3pm, the AIGA San Diego is hosting a Beach Bash on Mission Bay, off Crown Point Drive, in San Diego. Potentially little-known, probably harmless, Ninthlink fact? At least 3 Ninthlink'ers live less than 1 mile from this event. I myself will be in San Francisco next weekend, and from 11am - 3pm I plan to still be recovering from that which can only be called Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, but…
August 15, 2008
Marketing

More Than Just Serving Hamburgers

Having a sick child is hard enough, but having to travel countless miles each day to visit the child in the hospital only makes everything worse. Ronald McDonald House Charities was founded to create a 'home away from home' for the families of children who will have long stays in the hospital. The families are placed in a Ronald McDonald home closest to where their child is staying so they can spend as much time together as a family as…
August 14, 2008
Development

Fonts Fonts Fonts

Russell and Travis were working on a client's monthly email newsletter, and asked me if I had a referrence sheet for web-safe fonts. First, a brief rundown of why that came up at all. If you already know of the joys of Gmail vs Outlook 2k8 (or is it 7?), feel free to skip to the next paragraph. Otherwise, allow me to set the stage. See, a few years ago, a designer could design any sort of fancy fancy email…
August 12, 2008
Marketing

Search Engine Strategies 2008 : San Jose Conference & Expo

Only August 18th, the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo returns to San Jose, California. Featured speakers include Kevin Ryan, VP / Global Content Director for SearchEngineStrategies.com & SearchEngineWatch.com, author Lee Siegel, with his recently published book Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, Satya Nadella, Senior VP from Microsoft itself, Dan Heath, co-author of NYT's bestselling book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Matt Cutts, Software Engineer from Google, and…
August 12, 2008