News Roundup 8/26/2013

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What have we got today?

Quartz has a look at what’s wrong at Microsoft – and what needs to be done to fix it.  Excellent reading.  I’m still bullish on Microsoft, but they have some things to fix.

Heroes of Cosplay is having a Kerfluffle that looks to be nasty.  It seems NBC and SyFy used photographs without permissions of the photographers.  Then they got threatening towards the Cosplayers over who owned what.  Yeah, kinda ugly.

George Takei wants action on Russia’s Anti-Gay law.  Lending his voice the geek icon is going to be very powerful.

– Steven Savage

Seventh Sanctum Redesign: Latest Version

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I’ve been redesigning Seventh Sanctum’s interface, looking for something more modern and more cross-device – and face it the look is a few years old.  Fortunately friends have been quite helpful.

So here’s the latest design – and of course I need your feedback!  The idea is to condense it and streamline it, use space better, and move the menus into responsive dropdowns.  This keeps the space open for the results and lets me jack up the fonts – plus I can make it more cross-device.

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– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.