Oh. I Have a Blog. Sorry, I Forgot.

29 December 2009

Okay, that’s a lie. I didn’t forget. In fact, I think about it just about every day and come away with a remarkable sense of grave disappointment. I have a fantastic domain, I dropped quite a bit of coin on Thesis, and I am arguably the greatest writer of our (or any) generation. So much [...]

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Snore Leopard and Your Unreasonable Expectations

1 September 2009
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Did I miss out on some big secret? Were people passing around news articles about Snow Leopard that I didn’t have the pleasure of reading myself? Did people read that Snow Leopard was anything more than an under-the-hood, non-socks-blown-off update to Leopard? Perhaps articles that touted all sorts of major new user experience features and [...]

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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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