Keeping with the colors and motifs that now gives RCF its brand was a challenge, and two complete sites were built from scratch. I’m hoping to actually give it an upgrade and another build later this year, similar to what’s there, but based on a Wordpress theme I’ve currently got under construction, that will turn it into yet still more of a news site. Over at the blog I detailed the some of the work involved. Here, I’m just posting both theme designs, the one that didn’t make it (image at right) and the one that did.

I started designing websites while working as a copy editor for a daily Gannett newspaper in the Northwest U.S. While working a shift in the middle of the night, I decided that other newspaper workers might enjoy an online forum where they could swap stories, commiserate, rant rave about their jobs and discuss how to make journalism a little better. This was called The Poison Kitchen for somewhat obscure reasons and represented the launch of my interest in making websites geared around using the potential of the internet to create change.

through creation of the Posion Kitchen I was immediately introduced to a wide variety of individuals, some of which I’d just as well have done without. I also learned that the shortcomings of mainstream media come not only from its corporate nature, but also from some of the people who would want to work for such a thing. I promptly gave the domain name away to someone who I don’t think ever did much with it. I left it all the wiser about the more dubious qualities of our emerging “Global Village,” though thorugh the years I’ve remained keen on working with various organizations striving to take their message and good works online.

I’ve gone on do digital media strategy for for a wide variety of productive, intelligent, happy people working on various sundry projects. See the resumé listing on this site information on some of these.

My other pursuits include coffee, photography, working toward a masters degree in psychology and writing. My first novel, Italian Greyhound, is ostensibly forthcoming.

Selection of articles

Bringing the discussion home: The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project

Dangerous Ideas, Sinister Forces

Digitally Erasing a Massacre

The creation of “Hezbollywood”

Some past web projects

Olympia+Rafah Sister City Project

Rachel Corrie Foundation

International Solidarity Movement

International Trauma Treatment Program