October 2005

Football Philosophy

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This might be old news, but I've just discovered PhilosophyFootball.com: sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction. They've got a decent-sized range of shirts with either clever soccer-related lines by philosophers or philosophical quips by footballers.  •  I especially like the Albert Camus …

Doctors and Their Patients

I've just finished reading Edward Shorter's excellent book Doctors and Their Patients, a social history of the evolution of the doctor/patient relationship. Shorter loosely divides the history of the medical profession into three periods: the traditional period when doctors had almost no ability … read more »

The Delegates

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A friend just pointed me to a great ska band from Montreal called The Delegates. You've got to love any band that is powered by no less than two trombones. And... they've got full MP3s on their website of several of there songs including "The DJ Stole My Girlfriend" and "Another Crappy Song about …

Salon Redesign Launch?

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Over the past few months, the news site Salon.com has felt like it was slowly falling apart around the edges. There was the same great content, but the website itself was becoming a mishmash of not-quite-working parts. There are simultaneously two main page layouts that change per section, header …

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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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