February 8th
Daniel Pataki
Themes & Skins, Wordpress
blogs, free themes
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If you do any blogging you probably know about Wordpress, if not, then you must check it out, it’s completely free and awesome. Changing blog themes frequently is not an option for most commercial sites, but if you have a personal blog you can find and implement some really cool themes, so here’s a short list of the best places to find them!
Wordpress Free Themes directory
The directory on the Wordpress site has a lot of themes, but the drawback of it is that you might have to sieve through a lot to find the right theme for you. If you have a recent Wordpress version you can also search this database from inside your blog, in the appearances section, making it super-easy to find great looks.
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January 23rd
Daniel Pataki
Blog Spotlight
blogs
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While Dustin Curtis does not have a specifically productivity related blog, he does have a lot of insight on a wide range of topics, and mainly, his posts are extremely entertaining. Topics range from an awesome story – almost an opera – about American Airlines, to an MRI of his head, and the underlying story of his brain. He is full of ideas, wit and charm, please do check him out, I promise you an interesting read!
Apart from the cerebral entertainment, Dustin also engages the designer in you and provides visual joys for the aesthetically inclined. Only a very small bar joins his posts together, other than that they are all custom built, like a magazine, all underpinning the content of the post. My favorite example of his shrewdness in design can be found in a post about the evolutionary findings of Niko Tingergen (How Niko Tingergen Reverse Engineered the Seagull). If you read the post, you eventually see a red border to the left, which has three white breaks in it at the very end. Just after you see this as you read, you actually realize the meaning of this visual element, completely awesome.
Since posts are not that frequent on his blog (the quality more than makes up for this), you can also follow his day to day adventures on a more run-of-the-mill blog, which is a simple photo-and-comment blog, made with pictures from his iPone.
