From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Sometimes What Needs to Change in the UI Are the User’s Expectations

19 August 2009
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In the Information Age, you can’t pick up a new tool without changing your expectations on how you plan to use it.
This isn’t something I had really considered until tonight during a conversation on FriendFeed with Louis Gray and others about Google Reader as not only a new player in the social networking scene but [...]

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Rest in Peace, FriendFeed

13 August 2009
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So, I launched this blog and then haven’t updated it in days. Trust me, I’ve been writing: I’ve seven drafts not including this one—most of which are nearly complete—to prove it. I’m just being hypercritical and, honestly, a little nervous. I feel like there are a lot of eyes on me eye and that puts [...]

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ALL ABOARD THE PANIC WAGON

6 August 2009
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So, this morning, Matthew DeVries broke on FriendFeed that something suspicious was afoot on Ye Olde Internet. Shortly thereafter, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington re-broke the same news and, at that point, it suddenly took hold in the collective conscious of everyone who wanted to try to generate conversations, hits, and links from it.
‘Holy shit!’ [...]

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Is It Cheating to Start Planning for NaNoWriMo Now?

5 August 2009
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I’m not allowed to participate in NaNoWriMo. It makes me fussier than normal and that fussiness spills out all over my long-suffering wife so she put her foot down and said, ‘Nope, no more. Forget about it.’

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Good Grief, Not This Crap Again

4 August 2009
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Listen, I’m old and cranky going on older and crankier. What may have begun innocently with a Commodore 64 and a printer (no one in 1982 seemed to truly understand how essential a floppy drive was) has ended up with a variety of Apple products the power of which seems to be designed solely to funnel increasingly potent irritations from the Internet right at my face.

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