Category Archives: Blogonaut

Preventing Piracy by Censoring Services: What SOPA Means for You

by Alissa Ausan (@ajausan) Wikipedia is blacked out. Google—ever the homepage chameleon—is wearing a censor bar over its logo.  At the heart of the hubbub: confusing acronyms. When 4 capital letters get together and cause an uprising, one of three things is usually happening: 1)     A building is burning (let’s say a theater, for a [...]

If You Tweet It, They Will Come…

by Alissa Ausan (@ajausan) Friday night was a quintessential dose of Americana at Target Stadium: baseball, brats, and…blogging? Micro-blogging, to be more specific. The Minnesota Twins invited fifteen power Twitter users to take part in a social media “Deckstravaganza,” bringing a cross-section of social media personalities to the Twins executive deck to amplify the game’s [...]

It takes more than a case to cover your mobile.

To paraphrase Will Smith: The difference between your website and ours is, we make this look good. And part of that was Alison and Jerry’s (but mostly Alison’s) inclusion of WPtouch Pro into Brave New Media’s toolbox. WPtouch Pro is a WordPress plugin which allows us to present a mobile theme incorporating the design work [...]

Science!

The last two weeks have seen a lot of R&D going on at BNM Labs for different clients – these things can start out simply enough with a question (or just a hole in a web page) and before you know it you’re elbow deep in daffodils and breakfast cereal as you careen through the [...]