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"There is a strong likelihood that someone in this generation will be the last human to eat a bluefin..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:42:46 +0000

“There is a strong likelihood that someone in this generation will be the last human to eat a bluefin tuna.”

- Tuna Diplomacy

"It could be that everyone will figure out how to play nicely with each other, and we’ll see a..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:14:19 +0000

“It could be that everyone will figure out how to play nicely with each other, and we’ll see a continuation of the interoperable web model we’ve enjoyed for the past two decades. But I’m betting that things are going to get ugly. We’re heading into a war for control of the web. And in the end, it’s more than that, it’s a war against the web as an interoperable platform. Instead, we’re facing the prospect of Facebook as the platform, Apple as the platform, Google as the platform, Amazon as the platform, where big companies slug it out until one is king of the hill.
And it’s time for developers to take a stand. If you don’t want a repeat of the PC era, place your bets now on open systems. Don’t wait till it’s too late.”

- The War For the Web - O’Reilly Radar

"Remember when blogs were more casual and conversational? Before a post’s purpose was to grab search..."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:55:05 +0000

“Remember when blogs were more casual and conversational? Before a post’s purpose was to grab search engine clicks or to promise “99 Answers to Your Problem That We’re Telling You You’re Having”. Yeah. I’d like to get back to that here.”

- SimpleBits / WoodPress

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"HTML has always been a conversation between browser makers, authors, standards wonks, and other..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:12:56 +0000

“HTML has always been a conversation between browser makers, authors, standards wonks, and other people who just showed up and liked to talk about angle brackets. Most of the successful versions of HTML have been “retro-specs,” catching up to the world while simultaneously trying to nudge it in the right direction. Anyone who tells you that HTML should be kept “pure” (presumably by ignoring browser makers, or ignoring authors, or both) is simply misinformed. HTML has never been pure, and all attempts to purify it have been spectacular failures, matched only by the attempts to replace it.”

- Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]

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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:37:32 +0000

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:14:31 +0000

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"You should have a bunch of feelings when using computers. Excitement. Pride. Delight. Amazement...."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:38:07 +0000

“You should have a bunch of feelings when using computers. Excitement. Pride. Delight. Amazement. Curiousity. Yes, even frustration and anger. But you generally should not feel despair. You should not be feeling desperation. You really shouldn’t. An architecture and environment that could lead you into this situation, where you are helpless and wronged and did nothing but what you were told was right, and then punished quite severely, is very wrong. It is the opposite of what a computer and technology should do. And worst of all, by any of the information I’ve been given, it was avoidable – just more expensive to assure such avoidance. And expensive gets lost as an option, when you’re dealing with a cloud. What we call The Cloud is about obfuscation, about blurring. It’s in the name of ease and convenience and about incredible savings on a number of columns in your galactic spreadsheet. Unfortunately, this marketing bullshit easily comes at the cost of service level agreements, error tracking, and accountability.”

- ASCII by Jason Scott / Outlook is Cloudy

"For a director who takes himself seriously, to add 3-D would be like a novelist choosing a..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:27:34 +0100

“For a director who takes himself seriously, to add 3-D would be like a novelist choosing a distracting typeface.”

- Does anyone like 3-D?

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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:52:43 +0100

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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:07:44 +0100

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"If you’re a company that’s about to pay some SEO expert, please, I beg you, take that money and hand..."

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:13:05 +0100

“If you’re a company that’s about to pay some SEO expert, please, I beg you, take that money and hand it to a talented writer or competent web developer instead. It’ll be much better spent.”

- Derek Powazek - SEO FAQ

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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:50:27 +0100

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"The best user experiences are those who start as immediately rewarding to the individual user,..."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:14:15 +0100

“The best user experiences are those who start as immediately rewarding to the individual user, continue to be constantly rewarding with their continued participation and generates a positive network effect with the participation of others (the web itself is a giant application of this but so are successful web sites like Amazon, eBay, Flickr, del.icio.us, Facebook etc). The worse user experiences are those who start by telling people how wonderful and amazing their reward would be if they agree to painstakingly walk this trail for miles and keep telling them the reward is around the corner. The semantic web has always reminded me of that.”

- Stefano’s Linotype » The “Trail of Candy” Design Pattern

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