Notes from Electric Pulp

I’m pretty sure the GTD experts and lifehacking luminaries would all agree that having a climate-controlled office environment is the first step to finding / maintaining optimal workflow. I don’t think processing quickly in our 89 degree cookbox is possible.

So, if you’re trying to catch us for the next few hours, we’ll be finding our work ch’i in mobile office fashion. And if you’d like to find us, email’s your huckleberry. Unless you’re reading this, right now, in a coffee shop. We might be sitting next to you, stealin’ ur bandwidth.

Pulp showed up late to the lolcats party, so we thought we’d catch up by posting a few of our own…

thx 4 ur bandwit. kthxbai

If you found yourself secretly loving (or loving to hate) Truemors, Guy Kawasaki’s crowdsourcing, rumor aggregating experiment, you might be interested to find out there’s now more to love (or love to hate.)

In general, the new site is better.

Need specifics? Okay…

First off, we’ve added accounts to the mix. Their full purpose will remain a mystery for the moment. Stay tuned.

Next, Truemors now has spam filtering kung fu. You’re familiar (and amazed) with [blog] comment spam filtering? Same thing. Kind of.

Moving on, the site has been redesigned. The primary change you’ll notice is the dead simple topic navigation. Odd posts, Tech posts, Food posts, even the Greatest posts (as voted by the Truemors community) can be quickly isolated for your viewing pleasure.What else? How about Ajax? If you’re one of the geeks that spotted the v1 site’s meta refresh, you might appreciate the new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater post refresh voodoo. Oh, the power of voodoo.

Is there more? Sure. But I’d rather take a moment to point out that the site is still going strong. Naysayers, doom & gloomers, and CNet will have to wait to stick a fork in it.

The following table is meant as a quick translation guide for novice to intermediate surfers attempting to “grok” the new Web 2.0 terminology. It is meant to be cut out and laminated and is guaranteed to make your next barcamp, meetup, or geek dinner more productive and good. This guide is provided as a courtesy to friends and strangers alike – we’re just happy for the opportunity to make the world a less awkward place to mingle.

Based out of Los Angeles, Arkitip is a supercool independent magazine promoting art accessibility and freedom of expression. Last night the new version of the Arkitip Intelligence blog was pushed live, and it’s pushing boundaries as well (Electric Pulp provided the design and development behind the project).

Here’s the rundown.

Modern tech meets Lo-Fi look and feel
Arkitip started as a magazine in 1999 with a small run of 50 hand-stapled copies of their first issue. That same simplicity, combined with the existing Arkitip product site, was the inspiration for the new approach to Arkitip Intelligence. The Lo-Fi look and feel hides the modern technologies that make the site oh-so-sweet and easy to explore.

Blog, specialized feed reader, or both?
Because the site is basically a collective of different authors, it was important to let users customize their reading experience and manage the bulk. The new site includes the ability to mark specific authors as favorites, helping readers access their favorite authors easily in a river of news format, while still allowing them to access to other authors when they’re feeling rambunctious. We’ve even gone so far as to allow you to build and subscribe to your own customized RSS feed of just your favorite authors. We’re pretty pumped about it all, actually.

Street spirit, fade out.
It should be pointed out that Arkitip Intelligence holds great promise for a very unique and varied perspective on the world. The collection of authors is amazingly diverse, sourced from many different backgrounds. Post frequency is varied as well, requiring a unique solution to keep readers from clicking around randomly to try to find fresh content: as each author’s content ages, their photo on the front page will fade out, drawing additional attention to the most recent posts and most active authors.

That’s it, I guess.
Thanks for reading. Go check it out and be sure to come back and let us know what you think.