This is Tom Creighton's ongoing journal and information clearinghouse.

Connecting with musicians = great, but if I can’t figure out what your site does after 5 minutes I’m writing you off.

Are there any benefits to an online publication having an ISSN?

Justifying design decisions post-hoc is a useful exercise in learning why you did what you did.

A great post on harmonizing the BBC’s online properties: http://tr.im/PMmS

A brand new blog post: Improve Usability by Tapping Into Your Own Experiences http://tr.im/PLxU (via @factor_e)

Super useful website-screen-grab utility: http://derailer.org/paparazzi/

Our latest blog post: Designer/Programmer Harmony: We’re Not Always Right (Just Usually) http://tr.im/PCWn (via @factor_e)

I’d like for there to be a klezmer version of ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’.

“Every additional moving part is a future source of failure.”

New blog post!! Top 5 FREE Apps I Can’t Live Without http://bit.ly/99gYod (via @factor_e)

It’s easy to conflate success with excellence. The two are, at best, tangentially related.

The targeted specificity of online scams is amazing. You would think there would be a law of diminishing returns in play.