JR: The top features for community sites are users and their content - Whatever they are called ... social media social networks forums / message boards community blogs ... these sites accept user-generated content, and most likely, these sites host discussions on that content. Here's a fine comment in this threa... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 03, 2014 - #socialnetwork #socialmedia #forums #blogging #design #reading #writing #blog_jr

JR: Mobile usage for phone, tablet, and phablet - I got my HP tablet in the fall of 2011, and I used it nearly every day since until June 2014 when I finally entered the smartphone era by getting an iPhone 5C (free upgrade with the 32 gig version.) Since upgrading from a flip phone to an iPhone, I h... more>> 3 min read
- Sep 09, 2014 - #todo #mobile #design #tablet #phone #laptop #blog_jr

JR: Interesting viewpoint on content production - I guess that I made this quote in February 2014, although I'm unsure why. I must have been reading something related. The web app's publishing ease-of-use produces quantity. Honing the quantity produces quality. Organizing the quality produces ea... more>>
- Sep 09, 2014 - #jothut #junco #blogging #wiki #editor #quote #media #design

JR: Markdown Wars - September 2014 - Maybe this will be a new reality TV show. I'm glad that I have been writing in Textile, nearly every day since 2005. My Junco and Grebe codebases allow markup writing in Textile, MultiMarkdown, and some HTML. I've created my own flavor of Markd... more>> 13 min read
- Sep 09, 2014 - #writing #markup #markdown #textile #design #blog_jr

JR: Design well by knowing people - I understand that some people are too brilliant to be in our company. They operate on a higher level, and they get impatient with people who cannot intellectually keep up. But intelligent geeks should try not to be big a-holes when interacting with ... more>> 1 min read
- Sep 02, 2014 - #design #blog_jr

JR: Web app info on iPhone - meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" / add the app to the home screen. the above removes the default top and bottom nav bars in the safari browser. this would work for my ToledoWX jQuery mobile web app, since it contains its own b... more>>
- Aug 04, 2014 - #mobile #web #app #design #todo

JR: Local media project ideas - As usual, I think about copying large scale projects for use at local level. For paid subscribers: localized version of Wikipedia with all content from the same media outlet such as toledo blade which has a vast treasure of content. vox.com - desi... more>>
- Aug 01, 2014 - #media #local #design #mobile #app

JR: Circa's mobile app versus the web and RSS - #todo finish editing Jul 23, 2014 - Scripting News - Where's Circa's RSS feed? For more than a year, I've been accessing Circa news stories via their Twitter page at https://twitter.com/CircaNews . But since I finally got with the times and acqui... more>> 10 min read
- Jul 23, 2014 - #todo #media #mobile #app #rss #design #blog_jr

JR: Stories about Circa - The following links were culled from my search results here: #media - #startup - #design
- Jul 23, 2014

JR: Small cottage design - I would prefer that it rest on land though. #home - #design
- Jul 16, 2014

JR: API-first-development design - November 2013 Pop.co blog post titled Why we chose API-first development. Related Hacker News thread Simple enough. Another project derivative idea based upon Junco code. No HTML Template usage. The server code only receives and returns JSON via R... more>> 3 min read
- Jun 23, 2014 - #programming #design #javascript #json #rest #api #blog_jr

JR: Comments about commenting systems - June 2014 - And it continues ... Attempting to correct, improve, and manage reply mechanisms, attached to media-created content. Additional links and thoughts: I thought the Facebook commenting system was the Holy Grail for media sites. What about the Disq... more>> 8 min read
- Jun 23, 2014 - #media #comments #programming #opensource #design #blog_jr

JR: Digital media and web services unbundling their products - A trend has emerged in the past year where some publishers and web services have separated their products into smaller offerings or verticals. ".. the digital unbundling is an extension of the decline of general interest content in print form lik... more>> 1 min read
- Jun 04, 2014 - #media #design #app #mobile #web #blog_jr

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- May 27, 2014 - #art #design

JR: Interesting blog and article page designs - Similar to Medium.com, which may or may not be good to copy, like so many other bloggers have done, but the fact is for me, this style of article page is comfortable to read on multiple devices. I like the font family, font size, line height, and ... more>>
- May 27, 2014 - #blogging #responsive #design #blog_jr