Web
What your links say, can say a lot about your site
What your links say, can say a lot about your site. Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here” - UX Movement
Content
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)
Content
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
Content
Bookmarklet apps like Instapaper are pointing us toward a
Bookmarklet apps like Instapaper […] are pointing us toward a future in which content is no longer entrenched in websites, but floats in orbit around users. A List Apart explains, in Orbital Content, what most publishers can’t seem to grasp
Design
Writing interface language is like
Writing interface language is like writing dialog for a play. You want to make it clear who is speaking at all times. Erika Hall explains why not to use My in UI’s, in Super Unsuck It! Bye-Bye, My.
Web
Everything about web architecture
Everything about web architecture; HTTP, HTML, CSS, is designed to serve and render content, but most importantly the web is formed where all of that content is linked together. Ben Ward, Understand The Web
Social Media
if you are running a media site
if you are running a media site, if you’re having trouble making money, it’s your fault. Don’t blame your readers. Techdirt, arguing Don’t Blame Your Community, in response to Ken Fisher’s whining on Ars, Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love