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Congratulations, Truthdig! Three Webby nominations!

Our favorite news client, Truthdig^[1], just received three nominations in the 11th annual Webby awards.  Three nominations is pretty rarified air, as you can see from the press release:

The BBC received the most nominations (5). Other multiple nominees include NPR (4), NYTimes.com (4),…

Hotel Industry Pros Have a Place to Go: VacantReady

I’m very pleased to introduce VacantReady, a site dedicated to hotel industry professionals.  It’s run by Chris Clarke, an enthusiastic Energizer Bunny of a client.  He’s already busy patrolling the new site’s forums, posting daily on the blog, and in general bringing a level of…

Flickring the News

Flickring the News

Flickring the News is a thought experiment based on a design riddle we posed to ourselves not too long ago.

“What if,” we asked ourselves, “news sites were built for sharing instead of for telling?”

This is what evolved from that question.

What we hope we will…

eMarketing Hits The Asphalt

Alexandre Brabant dropped by the Hop Studios design garage looking for one of our historic specialties: the redesign!

His Search Engine Optimization(SEO) business had outgrown the original eMarketing101.ca site and needed to be switched into high gear. Happy to oblige, we got that sucker…

Announcing the Knight Citizen News Network

March 26 was the official launch of the Knight Citizen News Network, www.kcnn.org. We worked with Jan Schaffer and the other fine folks at J-Lab (University of Maryland) to design and build this truly enormous site where you can find all kinds of help and information on citizen…