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Scott Berkun: Creative Thinking Hacks

Hugo Baeta — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:47:15 +0000

Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place

Hugo Baeta — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:39:56 +0000

If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader displays all the posts across all the blogs you follow in the order they were published, with the most recent content appearing at the top. You’ll see an excerpt of the introduction to each post, the first image in the post, and thumbnails of any other images that the post …

I’m so proud of my fellow Automatticians who’ve been working on this! I’m also proud to have helped out with the Recommended Blogs wizard!

2011 in review

Hugo Baeta — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:00:27 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 13,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

WordPress in Hawaii, 8-bit at a time

Hugo Baeta — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:57:35 +0000

This past week I’ve been in Kailua, Oahu island, in Hawaii on a team meetup (Team Social FTW!). This has been a pretty perfect meetup so far: we have an amazing house right on the beach, the balance of work/fun has been spot on and I’ve had the oportunity of doing some funny creative stuff.

Today, after some days of thinking about this and some teasing from my team-mates to get this done, I’ve built a post-it/pixel version of the WordPress logo! It is based on the 16px WordPress icon version created by Ben Dunkle – I zoomed on it and basically made it so the color of the post-its I had matched loosely the icon. It took me a bit of tweaking and adjusting (thanks J-trip for the help, and Scott “3 part” Berkun for the awesome colorful post-its!), and going back and forth to the beach to look at it from a distance, but I’m super happy with the result!! This was the perfect opportunity to try out some time-lapse recording! Check out the short video I did:

Even thought I’m posting this technically on the 12th, the fact that this was made on the 11th matches perfectly with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg 28th birthday! Happy Birthday Matt!

New year… New Beginnings.

Hugo Baeta — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:34:21 +0000

San Francisco, I am in you! Booom (@ San Francisco International Airport (SFO) w/ 110 others) 4sq.com/A0S43y—
Hugo Baeta (@hugobaeta) January 05, 2012

And so, to start of the new year in bliss, I finally moved to San Francisco, California.

Now, time to update my locations in all the social shenanigans

Happy New Year 2012

Hugo Baeta — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:11:28 +0000

From Lisbon, to the World!

2012 is going to be AWESOME!

Much love

Jill Scott live at the Paradiso in Amsterdam

Hugo Baeta — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:03:10 +0000

The year is coming to an end, and before it does I want to write about the amazing concert I saw earlier this month.

On December 8th I flew to Amsterdam specifically to see my favorite artist, miss Jill Scott, perform live at the iconic Paradiso. This was the third time I flew out of my country just to see her perform (see video from the time I saw her in Zürich in 2007 and Amsterdam in 2008), and it is worth every single time!

Her music is incredibly special to me (and to so many others) and you should go and listen to her stuff ASAP! (I wrote a previous post about her latest album, check it out).

This concert was specially awesome because of the things not listed on the set list above. She played around 30 minutes more after she ended the 3 encores listed. Why? Well… let’s just say she was inspired. It was mostly improvisation, she even accepted requests from the crowd and there were incredibly emotional moments.

Part of the said “inspiration” came from the little thing she’s holding in her hand in the previous photo… and I was the lucky fan who she passed that directly to… everybody in the front smoked “the peace pipe” with Miss Jill Scott!! oh boy… only in Amsterdam…

I was front-row, and it was awesome! Check out the short video montage I did:

Check out more videos from other people on my favorites list on YouTube!

I wish you all a Happy New Year!

The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway

Hugo Baeta — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:04:50 +0000

There is a commonly held belief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system, a belief reinforced by Helvetica, Gary Hustwit’s popular 2007 documentary about the typeface. But it is not true—or rather, it is only somewhat true. Helvetica is the official typeface of the MTA today, but it was not the typeface specified by Unimark International when it created a new signage system at the end of the 1960s. Why was Helvetica not chosen originally? What was chosen in its place? Why is Helvetica used now, and when did the changeover occur? To answer those questions this essay explores several important histories: of the New York City subway system, transportation signage in the 1960s, Unimark International and, of course, Helvetica. These four strands are woven together, over nine pages, to tell a story that ultimately transcends the simple issue of Helvetica and the subway.

via AIGA | The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway

Rock of Ages

Hugo Baeta — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:27:50 +0000

Today I decided to come to London with my mom for a musical theater weekend. For those of you who don’t know, musical theater is one of my passions – I’m a sucker for showtunes!

Unfortunately, everything that could go wrong on a trip has happened. From credit card fraud, to an emergency landing only after a few minutes of take-off, well, let’s just say this was not an easy day…

But, the ending was quite nice! We had a fantastic dinner at Bill’s (right next to Jamie Oliver’s Italian restaurant which, unfortunately had a very long waiting list) and we got to go see the show Rock of Ages!

It was awesome! A fantastic and hilarious show, that I recommend if you wanna have a good time singing along classic/cheesy 80′s rock!

We got first row seats (and cheap too!) which felt like we were in the stage!!!

Here are some photos for your delight

And here’s a trailer I found so you can get a taste:

Ps.: I decided to go commando this weekend, which in Automattician lingo means not bringing my laptop! This was my first post from the iPad (hey, I need some gadgets or I’ll start showing nasty withdrawal symptoms) and it was a breeze to write using the WordPress iOS app!

Lisbon in (iPhone) Pictures

Hugo Baeta — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:43:35 +0000

Reblogged from Ryan Markel:

I spent this past weekend in Lisbon visiting colleagues and friends and attending the first-ever WordCamp Lisboa, which was a very nice event. I was able to meet and greet with the Lisbon WordPress community for the second year in a row (familiar faces!) and help a few folks at the Happiness Bar between talks. I love Lisbon and was delighted to return there. It was amazing to see this community that has grown from a handful of people we invited to a get-together at our Happiness meetup last year to a …