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Melanie McBride is Toronto educator, speaker and researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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Writing for the Web2.0: Usability is still king

By Melanie, on February 6th, 2009

Since graduating with an English literature degree ten years ago, I’ve made a good part of my living writing web and interactive content. Much of what I learned comes from online journalism practices, web usability via Nielsen and the web style guides I’ve worked with on various projects. Last year, I put all the basics [...]

[Feature article] Warren Ellis: The transmetropolitan condition

By Melanie, on October 27th, 2002

My article below was originally published in Mindjack Magazine online. October 28, 2002 | There has never been a better time to read the work of comic book legend Warren Ellis. From the formulaic pornography of news coverage to the on-going ineptitude of our world “leaders”, Ellis delivers an intelligent and savagely funny antidote to [...]