Daniel Brent Patton

Product Content Strategy & UX Writing

Profusion Delivers

A few of my regular web stops don’t publish newsletters, push feeds, or acknowledge my existence whatsoever, so I have Profusion send me an e-mail when these pages are updated. I get an html page in my inbox with any changes highlighted for me. I have an Alert...

Outing a Mailwasher

In commenting on a New York Times article on the subject, Steve Outing (at Poynter) speaks promisingly of a “new” spam-fighting trend of filtering in good content and trashing the rest (as opposed to the traditional scan-for-bad appoach). You know, I’ve been doing...

Powersearching

From the folks at Powerreporting.com comes this comprehensive tutorial on search techniques. Without getting over-technical, this tutorial gives just the right amount of detail to help you find what you need from search engines (even Alta Vista!). Did you know, for...

Rightclick-mp3

…makes it easier to encode or decode your wav’s and mp3’s. All you have to do is browse to your file like normal through My Computer or Windows Explorer. Then, just right click the file and choose the appropriate function. Download for free. Related...

Icon Factory

Add pizzaaz to your desktop. There are lots of utilities at this site to create or modify your own icons if you’d like to innovate. Related articles Media Icon Set (graphicelement.wordpress.com) Social Media Icon Set...