February 2012
WatchBetter. Faster. UXier. — AToMIC Design
Jennifer Gergen looks at a better process for agile design. Via @ChrisFahey of Behavior, who attended #AgileUXNYC (website) today.
(…Wish I’d known about that one earlier than mid-day. So it goes being a Noob Yorker.)
This is great! RT @b9punk: Better. Faster. UXier. - AToMIC Design…The slides from #AgileUXNYC. Please get in touch!...
Minimal Mac: TV Is Broken →
saila:
minimalmac:
She just does not understand why one would want to watch anything this way. It’s boring and frustrating. She makes it through the end of the movie but has little interest in watching more. She’d rather play. The television is never turned on again during our stay…
And this is how industries die.
Understanding technical debt | NCZOnline →
Glass & Glass on creativity « Scott Berkun →
Looking at your career, one thing that’s striking is the # of colalborators you’ve worked with.
When you find yourself in a place of total ignorance, that’s where you can begin again. Learn again. The difficulty with anybody in any ordinary life is how you continue to learn. Everybody has this problem. We get what we call our training and education at a certain point and we spend the rest of...
“Every time you throw in something that seems to work, find out why it works. If...”
– You Are Not Ruthless Enough - playswithfire
Lost the ‘via’—apologies.
How Does the Brain Process News/Ads? →
sasquatchmedia:
While I was a doctoral student at Missouri School of Journalism a few years back, I worked as a research assistant in the lab above. It’s one of only a few such labs in the country that focuses on how people psychologically and physically process news and information.
Among the more groundbreaking findings? Super graphic, disgusting ads (think about some of the...
With New Standard, Wi-Fi Could Become As... →
infoneer-pulse:
In late 2010, Verizon rolled out its 4G LTE network, which offers data speeds 10 times as fast as 3G networks. But as mobile data traffic continues to grow—experts anticipate that it will increase 26-fold in the next three years—it’s unlikely that any network will be able to keep up. Fortunately, something else is set to happen over the next three years: Wi-Fi could become as...
Recommendify - Ruby/Redis-based recommendation... →
thechangelog:
Once application content grows to a certain size, it becomes a challenge to help users find what interests them. Sites like Amazon have offered product recommendations for years based on shoppers’ browsing and buying habits. Recommendify from Paul Asmuth brings that sort of collaborative filtering to your Ruby application. Using a Redis backend, Recommendify lets you build...
danwebb.net - It's About The Hashbangs →
As you probably know if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, I have for a long time been an avid proponent of progressive enhancement and as many people correctly pointed out many of the arguments against hashbang URLs seemed to fold this philosophy in which clouded the issue quite a lot. In a well reasoned post, my colleague, Ben Cherry pointed this out and expressed that it wasn’t really...
Too Big to Tweet: I don’t believe in UX Design. →
toobigtotweet:
For a while now I’ve held the belief that UX Design doesn’t really exist, or more to the point shouldn’t. I’ve shared this belief a few times and gotten less than friendly reactions, so I’ve been keeping it to myself lately. But recent events have made me want to get it off my chest, so bear with…
Why we shut down Newsberry →
garrettdimon:
Whenever a business shuts down, it seems there are many that are quick to ask, “Why not sell it or open source it?” It’s never that easy, and this explanation from Wildbit does a great job explaining why selling is easier said than done as well as why open sourcing it isn’t always practical.
WatchrNews is here. And this is what it means. - NYT Open
Why should web publishers invest the effort to implement rNews? After all, such an implementation takes time and diverts resources from other objectives. Here are a few reasons why we are excited about rNews[: see article, they’re great reasons].
Slides via Evan Sandhaus, NYT’s lead architect for semantic platforms, on...
Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost... →
Last April, Mike Lazaridis sat in a BBC studio, holding his company’s future in his hands: a svelte seven-inch tablet, black, with the word “BlackBerry” emblazoned across its front. The PlayBook.
The company was Research In Motion, the Canadian firm whose BlackBerry virtually created the smartphone market. Success had come almost naturally to the company, until five years ago,...
Is Twitter a newspaper, or is it the phone... →
infoneer-pulse:
Is Twitter a publisher and distributor of information like a newspaper, or is it just a dumb pipe like a telephone network? Lawyers in Australia seem to believe that a case could be made that Twitter is a publisher, like a newspaper, and therefore it can be sued for defamation as a result of a single tweet. That may be a stretch — especially in the United States, which has...
“For the past 7 years, Joe has been digging out his basement at an average annual...”
– Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors - Slashdot (via interestingsnippets)
Jeremy Lin Media Hype Stumbles on Race - Media... →
The combination of Lin’s ethnicity and accomplishments created some excess, but no one could have predicted how low it might go. On Saturday, an article on ESPN’s mobile site recycled an ancient and blatantly offensive ethnic slur, and in the process suggested that some corners of sports journalism remained a backwater in the culture, a place untouched by a history of civil rights struggle and...
The bond between data and journalism grows... →
RoughNightForLulu: One Man's Struggle to Change a... →
sasquatchmedia:
roughnightforlulu:
History, bombs, a riot…and combative Wikipedia editing
“For the past 10 years I’ve immersed myself in the details of one of the most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and trial of 1886. Along the way I’ve written two books and a couple of articles about the episode. …”
I’m making this article required reading in my next digital...
Digital tools 'to save languages' →
infoneer-pulse:
“Small languages are using social media, YouTube, text messaging and various technologies to expand their voice and expand their presence,” said K David Harrison, an associate professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College and a National Geographic Fellow.
“It’s what I like to call the flipside of globalisation. We hear a lot about how globalisation exerts negative pressures on...
WatchOn a personal note, my former teammate Queen Underwood (not pictured in the still above) just won the women’s boxing lightweight title to qualify for the first Olympic USA women’s boxing team. Here is her penultimate bracket fight against the impressive N’yteeyah Sherman. …Which, because it’s a silverlight video stream, few people can view and the stream is not...
“For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who...”
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets)
“The recurring theme: Apple is fighting against cruft — inconsistencies and...”
– Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion (via bregel)
The newsonomics of ads that go bump in the night »... →
These aren’t ads that simply take you away to separate brand page when you touch it. They offer more useful information, within the app.
…
This is information-as-advertising, advertising as a gateway to connection beyond simple pitch and simple impression. Brands are important here, but their ability to tempt engagement is the key.
Commercial conversation, especially targeted...
Mainstream Media is Male and Getting Maler →
sasquatchmedia:
Need a drink after reading this passage:
“Last year, women made up only 22 percent of the local radio workforce, compared to 29.2 percent in 2010. Women’s representation in sports news hasn’t budged since 2008 (just 11 percent of editors, 10 percent of columnists, and 7 percent of reporters are women). In one year, women dropped from 20 percent of behind-the-scenes...
“Social media has transformed journalism quite significantly in some ways, but...”
– Social Media Week: Twitter & Future of Journalism (via thenextweb)
Researchers capture shark eating shark
breakingnews:
Australian researchers spotted a tasseled wobbegong shark consuming headfirst a somewhat smaller brown-banded bamboo shark on the southern Great Barrier Reef. Read more on msnbc.com.
(Photo by Tom Mannering)
'Academically Adrift': The News Gets Worse and... →
infoneer-pulse:
Last month the authors released new results that should only add to our national worries about higher education. While press coverage of Academically Adrift focused mostly on learning among typical students, the data actually show two distinct populations of undergraduates. Some students, disproportionately from privileged backgrounds, matriculate well prepared for college. They...
“Students are by far the most popular occupation for Google users, accounting for...”
– Google Userbase is Two-Thirds Male (via thenextweb)
The Mirror Awards →
changetheratio:
Terrific institution, but lady-nominees have been historically lacking. Let’s change that, shall we?
The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Established by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own...
High Scalability: Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion... →
texburgher:
buzz:
If you’ve ever wondered what’s involved in keeping Tumblr humming along, here’s a great overview courtesy of Blake Matheney.
I’ll just leave this here for the next performance of “FFS ISN’T TUMBLR JUST THE WORST? Theater”.