Hallahan On Tech: Interactive resume, blog and portfolio by Christopher Hallahan

 Something that has been bothering me on the Mac version of iTunes is that the Zoom button (the green circle on the title bar) does not work how you would expect.  Instead of making the iTunes window the optimal size (like every other Mac application), it shrinks iTunes to a "mini-player."  This has been bothering me for a while.  The solution?  Option + Click on the Zoom button!  I guess we learn something new every day (no matter how insignificant).

 I just read a fantastic article for my Information Technologies class by Clay Shirky titled "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable."  Shirky articulates well the old ideology the industry is facing and our extraordinary opportunities for new models for information.  I found most interesting Shirky's proclamation that "[t]he importance of any given experiment isn’t apparent at the moment it appears; big changes stall, small changes spread".  The articles indicates that as media professionals and designers we have great opportunity to create incremental changes to the user experience.  Yes, most of our experiments will probably fail, but let's be glad the digital age is very forgiving to failure.  While everyone out there is trying to discover the "next big revolution," Shirky is saying that those making the small changes will leave a lasting impression on the way we think about journalism.

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