Thomas Huxley’s letter, on the death of his son
The below is from Leonard Huxley’s The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. Quoted by Stephen Jay Gould. A letter written in response to well-meant advice from...
View ArticleTechnological evolution in the Cambrian age
Another comment left in the wild, this time in response to the deeply wonderful Irving Wladawsky-Berger’s post about The Data Center in the Cambrian Age. I strongly recommend it. In the meantime,...
View ArticleSaving face for the other guy works
Off site comment capture: Schott’s Vocab , The New York Times, requested face-saving excuses readers regularly turned to. Mine actually got marked as an Editor’s Highlight (rare for me), and received a...
View ArticleGood blog from founder on IxDA Sturm und Drang
Off-site comment capture of the moment: David Malouf, one of the founders of IxDA (the Interaction Design Association), has heard a lot of grief about a recent site redesign. He shared his thoughts on...
View ArticleBest-in-class style guide
The BBC’s style guide. An exceptional, best-in-class example of what a style guide should do. Also of interest: a BBC’s blog post on their goal of a new global visual language .
View ArticleThe biggest barrier to UX implementation
My response to a LinkedIn UX Professionals question, Why they don’t like to spend or invest in the User Experience tasks? My personal experience has been that ignorance is the largest barrier to UX...
View ArticleHow to get the best idea
This was written in response to Ross Douthat’s call for Americans to stop enabling M. Night Shyamalan. We all love him, we all want him to create another wonderful movie, and his lukewarm box office...
View ArticleOldie but goodie: W3C semantic data extractor
Reveals the logic behind your HTML/XHTML code. W3C semantic data extraction. Try it with these: Semantic extraction, Texas Instruments RFID news Semantic extraction, Freudian dream interpretation Why...
View ArticleHow not to be overwhelmed by data
When dealing with vast amounts of data, how to prioritize it? Lois Beckett reports this approach, from John O’Neil, curator of the New York Times’ topic pages: The most pressing criterion for what gets...
View ArticleSocial terminology
When you’re in a business, the jargon is like the air—you just don’t notice it. Then you listen to people outside your field using the same terms, and suddenly you see, yes, that can be confusing....
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Why Google+ works (UXtraordinary blog preview)
Excerpt from UXtraordinary: I am thrilled to see Andy Herzfeld’s social circles concept implemented so beautifully in Google+. My semi-educated guess is that empowering users to define access to...
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