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
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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
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
Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear
Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance. Stephen Fry, on Steve Jobs
It's not about Personal Computer
It’s not about Personal Computer... it’s about *Interpersonal* Computing Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the WWW, quoting Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer