November 2004

Daily Dose of Imagery

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Maybe I'm the last person in Toronto to know about this, but Sam Javanrough's Daily Dose of Imagery is an absolutely incredible photoblog in the city. I was actually in BCE Place for the first time today and was going to make a post encouraging anyone who visits the city to take a quick walk … read more »

365 Days Later

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As Steven and Peter just pointed out to me, it's been a whole year since Delta Tango Bravo was first published (if that's the correct term to use). Almost exactly one year ago, I was lamenting the untimely loss of my digital camera by means of the wash cycle and... drum roll please... then the …

AdSense for Charity

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Several months ago, my friend and coworker Steven Garrity started displaying Google AdSense advertisements on his weblog as an experiment. Thankfully, he's using some simple filtering so the only people who see his ads are those that arrive via a search result, so regular readers never see them at …

A Visit to the Salon

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Guest Post by Nick Burka (my twin brother)  •  I don't quite know how it started, but 3 years on I'm still doing it. Shortly after Salon.com changed their layout to the way it appears now, I became enamored by their clever and well designed front-page category images. Periodically I would stop and …

Firefox One Point Oh

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Just to add to the overall noise level around the web today, Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 launched last night to great fanfare. As I'm writing this, the Mozilla site is very slow, but it is eventually loading and the download speeds for actually getting Firefox are fast. Have patience it's worth the wait …

Mapped Pictures

Edward Tufte has posted a chapter from his soon-to-be-released book Beautiful Evidence on his website. The chapter, titled "Mapped Pictures: Images as Explanations and Evidence", contains the type of beautiful data-filled imagery you might expect from Tufte. The Albrecht Dürer woodcut and …

Welcome to the New World

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Following the unfortunate1 result of the American election, some witty disillusioned Yankees have been redrawing their maps. Instead of leaving their country in disgust, they're carving it up. Gone are the red states, or at least parts of them, and a new type of nation, filled with liberal …

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm the director of design with a startup called Tiny Speck and for several years I was the creative director at Digg. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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I'm not currently looking for any kind of work and sometimes I take a long time to respond to email, but if you'd like to contact me please send an email to daniel [at] deltatangobravo [dot] com

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I tweet when the mood strikes at Twitter

I sometimes review products on Silverorange Stuff

I sell my amateur photography on Clustershot

I post some of my personal photos on Flickr

I used to contribute on the Digg Weblog

I connect with people I actually know in the real world on Facebook

This Blog

The technology that powers this blog was built by silverorange on their Swat open-source web application toolkit. I'm no longer working on day-to-day projects at silverorange, but they're available for hire if you're looking for top-notch interface design or web application development.

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