Thomas Hastings // A Life Spent With Media

May. 24
Web users ‘getting more selfish’

While reading Digg today, I ran across an interesting link to an article posted on the BBC website about how web users are skipping all the formalities so to speak and going right for the information they want. Users are going right for search engines and skipping home pages. You can find the article here.

May. 20
Can a Developer Be A Good Designer?

Today, I was reading through a web developer forum and I ran across a noobie web designer asking for help with one of her school projects. She was looking for a place to find a cheat sheet. (It was apparent from how she asked her question that she didn’t know much about web design.) As [...]

May. 17
Adam / Chu Dance Crew

A few days ago I was reading through the Invisible Children blog and I stumbled across The Biggest Online Dance Battle. Invisible Children has decided to support the Adam / Chu Dance Crew (ACDC) by selling their t-shirts which are sold right out of the Invisible Children store. By purchasing a shirt you aren’t [...]

May. 12
Project Management with Basecamp

Today, my company (Lifespent Media), switched to a new project management tool called Basecamp. Although this is not my first time using it, I am still impressed. I used Basecamp while I was working with Design is Fuel on one of their projects. I will admit its hard trying to stay organized and keep track [...]

May. 09
Living Life w/ an iMac

After literally years of contemplation I decided (more like talked my self into) it was time to buy a Mac. Thats right, I gave in and purchased an iMac and wow… am glad I decided too. The responsiveness, tools, eye candy, and usability to name a few are reasons enough for me to have bought this Mac.
The responsiveness of this computer [...]