August 2011
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“Content strategy is to copywriting as information architecture is to design.”
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– Highlighted by Ian Betteridge in The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane
June 2011
3 posts
styledeficit bits and bobs: 'Write like you talk' →
styledeficit:
This never really rung true with me. Not really. But this is a much better explanation:
“To my writing classes I used later to open by saying that anybody who could talk could also write. Having cheered them up with this easy-to-grasp ladder, I then replaced it with a huge and loathsome…
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"Nobody surfs the web anymore"
Steve Rosenbaum, at Confab 2011:
“Nobody surfs the web anymore. The waves are too damn big.”
He’s right. And the thing is that we’ve mostly created the waves ourselves with the deliberate intention of stopping surfing.
People don’t surf the web. They go to a few regular sites. They gather feeds together using RSS. They ping straight off to links gathered via social media (and then jump...
January 2011
3 posts
Create a Cheap Server Using the Regular Snow... →
fieldytech:
Many Mac users were wowed by Apple’s Mac mini server package when it was announced, but at $1,000, it’s still a bit too pricey for even the average person to justify shelling out the cash for a home server. Fear not true believers, we’re going to show you how to turn that old Intel Mac you’ve got lying around into a server that can duplicate many of Snow Leopard Server’s features...
“I’ve used a few different 7-inch Android tablets and although I envied the...”
– Lessons at CES - how your tablet can compete with iPad - Chicago Sun-Times (via Instapaper)
“Honestly. It’s a small exaggeration to say that I could board a flight to China...”
– CES slate parade proves not all tablets are created equal - Chicago Sun-Times (via Instapaper)
August 2010
14 posts
"Don't forget..." - a set on Flickr →
A genius set of images of surprising street art. One for the designers amongst you.
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iReader →
One of the finest features of Safari 5 is Reader, which allows you to get to a simple, uncluttered view of any web page just by clicking a button. It’s the instant answer to the overkill of page furniture that lots of sites seem to want to put us through (and I’m looking at you The Guardian).
Only one problem: At the moment, Chrome is my browser of choice. I like Safari, but I find...
Multiculturalism and Its Discontents | Big... →
I am an atheist with an affinity for non-fundamentalist
religious believers whose faith has made room for secular
knowledge. I am also a political liberal. I am not, however, a
multiculturalist who believes that all cultures and religions are
equally worthy of respect. And I find myself in a lonely place in
relation to many liberals, political and religious, because I
cannot accept...
Are Wikileaks Activists Finally Realizing Their...
via Gawker: valleywagJulian Assange’s attempt to spin his creepy romancing of two Swedish women into a Pentagon smear campaign was a huge mistake. … Read More »
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“Must say I am enjoying the Pronouncements of Chairman Schmidt, we have been...”
– I have seen the Singularity, and it is run by Google - broadstuff
In some senses, I think Schmidt is right: We’re heading towards a post-privacy world. One of the pieces of thinking that has most-influenced me on this lately came from an unexpected source: “The Light of Other...
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My new agenda for blogging
Why did I decide to shutter my old blog? Although I touched on this in my final post there, I think it’s worth exploring a little more.
What I found was that I’d become trapped in the reactive, provocative mode of writing. It’s what I think of as the “news agenda” method: You write about what’s happening now, leveraging your experience and perspective to grab...
the secret history of ntk
via Danny O’Brien’s OblomovkaI know that this blog (and probably me as a person) are firmly categorised with the “where_are_they_now” nostalgia … Read More »
“Microsoft would be better off ignoring Windows 7 and instead starting with...”
– Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Windows 7 Tablets vs Apple iPad. Not about the OS (via Instapaper)
What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy? →
hammersley:
*sob*
July 2010
6 posts
“Flying ants are just like this one, but with wings.” Best. Caption. Ever.”
– Flying ants plague London | Metro.co.uk
“Gizmodo’s iPhone 4 scoop should be a lesson to all online news organization....”
– Oddly Together | Journalist Burnout is Symptom of Sick Newsrooms
Maybe Apple was Telling the Truth | t3kd →
(via Instapaper)
60 Second Spot: Meg Pickard, head of social media... →
If you read one thing about social media today, make this it.
(via Instapaper)
“A few years ago I’d have said this was impossible. A person’s right to keep...”
– The End of the Masquerade (via Instapaper)
links for 2010-07-05 →
Great since day one
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June 2010
2 posts
“[It] basically comes down to the fact that no matter how you want to cut it, the...”
– Punched in the Mouth, Community, and my minor Hypocrisy | Devastating Love
April 2010
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March 2010
6 posts
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Report: Valve's Portal 2 to appear on Mac →
chartier:
Valve, a major game developer for Windows and consoles, has all but confirmed that its popular back catalog and successful Steam marketplace are coming to the Mac. Now details have emerged that at…
This is causing much excitement around our house. Portal was played through till the end, one of the few games that Kim’s actually done so with.
“Sure, some people told us we deserved to die in a fire. But that’s the Internet!”
– Ken Fisher on Ars Technica’s experiment to temporarily block content for people running ad-blockers (via marco)
February 2010
11 posts
Unlink Your Feeds: A Manifesto. →
Listen. You need to unlink your feeds. I understand why you did it. I’ve made the same mistake myself. But it’s hurting your friends, it’s hurting you, and it’s hurting the Internet. You need to stop. You need to stop automatically dumping your feeds from one account into another. Look, I know…
“Rupert is off the reservation again. This is always a possibility when News...”
– Rupert Murdoch Is Mad as Hell
Worst iPad reporting ever →
This article by Jonathan Zittrain is why it’s wise not to let law professors write about technology:
If Apple is the gatekeeper to a device’s uses, the governments of the world need knock on the…
“As I told everyone at the Town Hall meeting, Google wants to kill the iPhone....”
– Fake Steve often tells The Truth.
“We expect the iPad to compete very well against existing low-end notebooks and...”
– Quote from Deutsche Bank’s Chris Whitmore, from Apple’s iPad vs. the netbooks - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech
“With all of the discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of applying the iPhone...”
– Marco.org - Duplicates existing functionality
CrunchGear catches the TechCrunch bullshit bug →
Apparently, Apple is now responsible for via killing hardware innovation throughout the industry, at least according to John Biggs.
Remember when Apple bought up all the Flash memory? Well,…
Amazon caves in to Macmillan, pouts and sulks →
Macmillan E-books – kindle Discussion Forum:
We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own…
Guardian CEO says charging for specialist content... →
The Guardian may still be considering a paywall, at least for specialist content:
[Chief Executive of Guardian Media Group Carolyn] McCall added that the Guardian, like the New York Times,…
Nokia app store passes one million downloads a day... →
Brand Republic:
Nokia’s Ovi application store is now attracting one million downloads a day around the world, the company has claimed.The store was launched in May last year, allowing the…
“Some people are complaining because it doesn’t have a camera in it....”
– Charlie Brooker | iPad therefore iWant? Probably. Why? iDunno
I love you Charlie.
January 2010
29 posts
“We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and...”
– Amazon admits defeat over Macmillan E-books. Someone should tell them that companies that have a monopoly over their own ebook-reading hardware and uses DRM to tie books to that platform really doesn’t have a lot of a ground to be pouting over “monopolies”.
“We can no longer afford to be [a] one-screen business. Social networks are...”
– Elisabeth Murdoch: ‘Borderline Piracy May Be Our Best Outlet’
By the way, Apple recently introduced the perfect second-screen machine…
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The iPad and me
There’s a million posts around about the iPad today, and there will be a million more tomorrow. My reaction is simply that I’ll be buying one, because I’m a geek, and that’s what I do.
As for whether it’s good or bad, game-breaking or Apple-breaker, that I’ve yet to learn.
I learned with the iPhone never to judge Apple products until I’d had them in my...