Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

WordPress 2.5 is released

March 20th, 2008 · 2 comments so far

Two days ago WordPress released a sneak peek of their latest version, 2.5. Redesigned from the ground up by the team at Happy Cog Studios, the WordPress Admin area now has improved navigation, organization and integration. The visual design looks pretty sleek, too.
The folks at WordPress included a lot of screenshots in their post to [...]

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Links from 3/2/2008 to 3/5/2008

March 5th, 2008 · No comments yet

Facebook Hires Google Executive as No. 2 - New York Times
iPhonic: Steve Wozniak has another pop at the iPhone
Will Tomorrow’s World Still Need Designers? / frogblog / frog design
35 Ways to Stream Your Life - ReadWriteWeb
Data is the New Links
Tim Berners-Lee Says Sites That Don?t Give Users Their Data Back Are Boring
Official Google Blog: Hello, [...]

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Formatting my blog for the iPhone

March 1st, 2008 · 3 comments so far

Last night Matthew Oliphant recommended iWPhone, an easy WordPress plugin that “automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.” I tried it out this morning and here are the results:
With the plugin:

Without the plugin:

So… which one do you all prefer?
Big thanks to Daniel Sandler for the images.

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