A talented graphic designer by day.

Ernie Smith

What is this guy's deal, anyway?

An überblogger every other waking hour.

 
Stopping the presses for Steve Jobs A story of how I was part of a stop-the-presses moment around Steve Jobs. And, above, a variation on SFB’s famous mascot, Julius the Laid-Off RSS Robot.

Stopping the presses for Steve Jobs

A story of how I was part of a stop-the-presses moment around Steve Jobs. And, above, a variation on SFB’s famous mascot, Julius the Laid-Off RSS Robot.

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A while back, ReadWriteWeb wrote a great feature on SFB. Sweet!

“How Tumblr is Changing Journalism” is a pretty lofty headline to live up to, but what the heck, you only live once and sometimes people think highly of your work. The secret: Embrace it and try to live up to it.

After the gold rush Another day, another cover. This time, I got a little cash for gold in my treatment. To celebrate, I’m going to exchange a couple of watches for some fresh ca$h. Hat tip to Scott McCarthy for the assist in making the gold golder.

After the gold rush

Another day, another cover. This time, I got a little cash for gold in my treatment. To celebrate, I’m going to exchange a couple of watches for some fresh ca$h. Hat tip to Scott McCarthy for the assist in making the gold golder.

Tumbl-zine: Norway Attacks An example of edge-pushing: An idea I’ve been playing with on ShortFormBlog lately involves finding ways to get people to engage more directly with the content. As Tumblr recently launched an update to their slideshow feature which simultaneously made the content more visual and better-organized, I started playing around with the idea of taking breaking news and treating it like a magazine that I updated along with the story. The results were strong — this Tumbl-zine and a separate one about Rupert Murdoch drew thousands of visitors and encouraged active reblogging. Best part? All I needed was InDesign.

Tumbl-zine: Norway Attacks

An example of edge-pushing: An idea I’ve been playing with on ShortFormBlog lately involves finding ways to get people to engage more directly with the content. As Tumblr recently launched an update to their slideshow feature which simultaneously made the content more visual and better-organized, I started playing around with the idea of taking breaking news and treating it like a magazine that I updated along with the story. The results were strong — this Tumbl-zine and a separate one about Rupert Murdoch drew thousands of visitors and encouraged active reblogging. Best part? All I needed was InDesign.

Express: Obama Counterpunch I don’t do a bunch of covers for Express, but I finally got a chance to regularly do a few front pages. This one’s my favorite so far.

Express: Obama Counterpunch

I don’t do a bunch of covers for Express, but I finally got a chance to regularly do a few front pages. This one’s my favorite so far.

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In this SFB post, I explained Canadian politics to American plebes.

Surprisingly, I can explain politics of other countries pretty darn well. Stephen Harper had a bad day here, but he had a better one about a month later.

Express: Partial freeze Remember when they were gonna turn the government into a giant, immovable block of us? Yeah, that’s where this came from. Fortunately, things thawed at the last second.

Express: Partial freeze

Remember when they were gonna turn the government into a giant, immovable block of us? Yeah, that’s where this came from. Fortunately, things thawed at the last second.

Origin story: shrtfrmblg, circa December 2008 This was the original framework I started with when I built out ShortFormBlog. I e-mailed this to my friends Charles Apple and Megan Lavey asking what they throught, and they both thought it was cool. So I kept building. I’m still building. Yes, the original name didn’t have any vowels. I literally bought the domain with the vowels a day before it launched.

Origin story: shrtfrmblg, circa December 2008

This was the original framework I started with when I built out ShortFormBlog. I e-mailed this to my friends Charles Apple and Megan Lavey asking what they throught, and they both thought it was cool. So I kept building. I’m still building. Yes, the original name didn’t have any vowels. I literally bought the domain with the vowels a day before it launched.

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