This might come off as more of a gripe than anything else, but I believe it needs to be said, so advertisers out there, listen up. Making television commercials louder than the program’s volume level is not a good strategy. Yes, my attention is...

I can be a rather skeptical reader — but sometimes more toward readers than authors. The Shoemaker's Holiday by Thomas Dekker (1599) Yup, the readers. You’re probably wondering how this works considering reading leaves no mark on a book, but...

While I developed this application (with the help of a certain Smashing Magazine article) a few weeks ago, I completely forgot to tell you all about it. This application is for Facebook users to follow and comment on Harlot’s blog from within Facebook...

If you’re in the Columbus area and looking to exercise your literary rhetorical mind, check out CANDYGRAM. The first issue kicks off with a release party Saturday, November 14th at Skylab and includes work from Harlot’s own reviewer, Dave Gibbs. For...

The website FlowingData has quite a bit in common with Harlot. Translating complex data of all varieties (money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste) into compelling graphic form, “Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all.“  At...