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Design

Those who don’t design for readers

those who don’t design for readers might soon not be designing for anyone Jeffrey Zeldman, in his Web Design Manifesto 2012

Psychology

Internet use would only be a worry

Internet use would only be a worry if it was getting in the way of us practicing some other life skill. Tom Stafford, in his BBC Future column discussing if the internet rewires our brain

Usability

A happy middle ground where developers can apologize

There is a happy middle ground where developers can apologize and software can provide the user polite guidance about what to do next. Cooper Journal, ranting on too cute error messages (Wayback Machine)

Human Rights

There are plenty of evil people

Google might not be evil, but there are plenty of evil people who stand to benefit from the blurring of public and private life Rob Beschizza, explaining on BoingBoing Why we shouldn’t let Google (or anyone else) claim their private services are public spaces

Internet

Choose between copyright and the wild west

if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the internet? I’ll take the internet every time Jonathan Coulton, on copyright, piracy, and the MegaUpload shutdown

Religion

A mandate to love one’s neighbour

You simply cannot reconcile a mandate to love one’s neighbour, whilst then adding a list of openly bigoted exceptions. Matt Gemmell, on the Pope, Morality and Persecution (Wayback Machine)

Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone

Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make you really happy with your current one, whereas apparently Android phone makers think they can get you to buy a new phone by making you really unhappy with your current one The Understatement, visualizing Android Orphans

People don’t buy products – they buy the benefit

People don’t buy products – they buy the benefit. One of ZURBlog’s 3 Reasons to Focus On People, Not Products

Aim to become as big of a traffic referrer as you possibly can

Aim to become as big of a traffic referrer as you possibly can — not only is that good policy, but it’s a great business asset. Dan Frommer, on better blogging which would be good advise for all (online) publishers

If you can build it in HTML

If you can build it in html, css and javascript, then you should. If you can’t, then you shouldn’t. Jonathan Stark on whether to build a phone or tablet app using html, css and javascript, or code it in Objective C / Java. (Google Books)

The problem isn’t that magazines and newspapers

The problem isn’t that magazines and newspapers are greedy or badly run, but that the demand for their content and the economics that fund it have shifted so far away from what they do. Marco Arment, visionairy software developer, concluding his blogpost The New-World Economy of a Modern Magazine