Whither Feedburner?

September 30, 2012

Is Feedburner going away? It depends on who you ask, but there sure seem to be changes afoot at the highly popular free RSS service. What is clear is that the API that serves up stats is being deprecated as of Oct. 20, 2012, and the blog and twitter streams have been shuttered. Some claim [...]

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Personal Projects – Finding your Niche

June 18, 2012

I wrote about personal projects a while back, to my great surprise it has become one of the most popular things I’ve ever written. I shouldn’t be surprised really, so many creative people have ideas about how to make a better this, or a cooler that — everybody has an idea they’re thinking about. Coming [...]

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The Jargon Problem

May 22, 2012

I’ve always been fascinated with language and the ways it can be used. Clear, evocative prose expressed in an authentic voice is such a pleasure to read. It can be so difficult to get an idea across in an engaging way, that I truly admire anyone who can pull it off. Of course, language can [...]

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RIM’s Marketing Mess

May 4, 2012

If I had a chance to give beleaguered RIM one piece of advice, it would be this: Stop! Stop the scattergun of conflicting messages you’re sending, step away from the mic, cancel all the ads and the ill-conceived publicity stunts and think for a minute. Figure out what it is you’re trying to do. Because [...]

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Better Maps for Wayfinding

May 1, 2012

Maps are one of the bedrock tools in the wayfinding kit. They’re important for orienting users to the space they’re in, and an important first step in being able to appreciate and understand a place. Without the ability to create some sort of mental model of a place, no matter how rudimentary, it becomes harder [...]

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It’s All About The Batteries

April 12, 2012

It’s a frequently unappreciated fact that the form factors of our mobile devices are largely driven by the batteries that power them. Not the shape so much, but certainly the bulk and the weight. If you don’t believe it, check out the teardown sequences on ifixit.com. The iPad is essentially a battery with a screen [...]

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Lessons from Legible London

April 2, 2012

The Legible London report is a comprehensive and highly readable study of pedestrian wayfinding in what is arguably one of the most complex major cities in the world. The report by AIG (now Applied) was commissioned in anticipation of the influx of visitors expected for the 2012 Olympics, and serves as a kind of master [...]

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The Curator’s Code

March 14, 2012

There’s been quite a dust-up in the last few days on Twitter and various blogs over Maria Popova’s (@brainpicker) Curator’s Code initiative. The Curator’s Code proposes a standardized system of Unicode characters for attributing “via” and “hat tip” sources for content used or referenced in blogs, aggregator sites and social media. In her words, it’s [...]

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