I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.
I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.
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Over on the Well, in a what-is-this-web-2.0-thing-anyway topic, I posted:
I've been thinking about starting a joke social networking/sharing site called "huester" where you can post your favorite colors, tag them, make RSS feeds of them...
Within a couple hours Jeffrey had posted a link to colorcombos.com. It's a site that lets you post your favorite color combinations, tag them, make RSS feeds of them... The only thing it's missing is friending.
Half an hour later Laura posted a link to colr.org. Tags, RSS feeds, and Ajax! They get bonus points for Ajax. And for omitting that last vowel.
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