Anyone who knows me knows how much I hate to moan about people who struggle with technology. Ahem.
Of course, most of the time the things we use are so badly designed it isn’t actually the person using it’s fault. But sometimes, just sometimes, it can be blamed on sheer stupidity.
People who know me will also know how much I LOVE Charlie Brooker.
I love complex gadgets. What I can’t stand are idiots who don’t know which buttons to press…
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A visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning.
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Transcendent product design is a matter of philosophy and approach. The reason product development has gone wrong is that people stop at the worst time—when the solutions are most convoluted. What Eastman knew, what Jobs knows, is that you have to go beyond; you have to think about the experience people are having.
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If you tell people how to consume their content, they will ignore you… Let people do what they want to do and try to be in their circle of choice.
From Campaign Reporting in Under 140 Taps (New York Times)
See also: Being useful to the network
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Interesting story in the New York Times today about micro-journalism, specifically John Dickerson, chief political correspondent for the online magazine Slate, using Twitter as a journalistic publishing tool.
..news has always come in different sizes. Despite the new gadgetry, …journalists are actually rediscovering telegraphese — the clipped (ideally witty) style that flourished because of word limits imposed by an earlier technology, the telegraph. Today, it is the limits imposed by text-messaging.
Made me think of a comment I got in response to a recent post: A little shove towards the future.
I love it when the outcome of something really exciting is a reflection of the past…
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Hello, I'm Jenny Brown.
