Human Rights
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
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
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 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
User experience
People don’t buy products – they buy the benefit. One of ZURBlog’s 3 Reasons to Focus On People, Not Products
Web
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
Mobile
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 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 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 about *Interpersonal* Computing Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the WWW, quoting Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer
He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world. President Barack Obama, on the Passing of Steve Jobs
The fact that it’s easy to write web pages doesn’t mean that it’s easy to produce a good mobile app using HTML Tom Hume, on the cost of cross-platform web apps, taking the Financial Times’ web app as an example.