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The Problem of Logos

At Le Petit Business (a local networking group for small and micro-businesses which Hop Studios is a part of) we talked yet again about the difficult of identity, branding and logo issues.

Is CodeIgniter Actually Open Source?

Hop Studios uses code written by EllisLab every day, and we’re watching each day for the drop of ExpressionEngine 2.0, which will be based on the CodeIgniter PHP framework.  While we wait, I was musing about how EE is often admonished for not being open source, while CodeIgniter’s status as such is seemingly overlooked.

Truthdig Nominated for Another Webby

Is it April already?  It seems like just a year ago we were congratulating Truthdig on its Webby nominations, and amazingly, there they are again!

This time, they’re one of five chosen in the Politics category.

SxSW Photos

This was supposed to be a post about SxSW, that’s right, a post about a conference that Hop Studios attended a month ago. But now it’s a post about why this post is a month late. SxSW, unlike most conferences, has no downtime, you are running from daybreak to way, way after sunset…