This article is a month old and I’m just now getting to it… Great reminder none the less from Elliot Jay Stocks on the concept of “content out” approach to web design. It’s something that I’ve been guilty of not doing in the past, but now practice as much as possible. In fact, this site [...]
Most of you may already know that what I post about on this site are merely things that interest me. I’m not a full-time writer. What I am is a full time student of business so to speak. My passion is in design and my interests are in tech. I had a very inspirational meeting [...]
Awesome interview by Shadoe Huard with with Shawn Blanc.
John Siracusa unleashes on a long list of “minor” details that Walter Isaacson apparently forgot or neglected to double check. I think that John’s criticism comes from the fact that he, as do many of you reading this, understand a large part of Steve Jobs career. That’s to say, you know what he accomplished and [...]
John Gruber on Isaacson’s comparison of Steve Jobs and Samuel Crompton and Richard Roberts: Jobs understood technology but was not an engineer. He had profoundly exquisite taste but was not a designer. What it was that Jobs actually did is much of the mystery of his life and his work, and Isaacson, frustratingly, had seemingly [...]
Your team will take their cues from you. If you are frustrated and complaining, they will be frustrated and complaining. If, however, you take a bad situation and make the best of it and keep a positive attitude, that will go a long way to keeping the overall morale of your team positive as well. [...]
@anildash When somebody collects money in your name w/out your consent with a cut, it’s called something else in many boroughs of NYC. Continuing the discussions and previous posts on Readabilities recent pivot, I must admit that although I was once I fan of their service, I never stopped to think about the model this [...]
Marco recaps his previous business relationship with the folks and makes his peace with the startups recent pivot. Readability was a service that I was once very excited about for what it could do for publishers, but I doubt I’ll convert or even consider the service in its new state. I’m a loyal Instapaper guy [...]
My new favorite show from my new favorite tech news site.
It’s very hard to get much thinner than the Air and still have a traditional notebook form factor. Take away too much and you essentially wind up with the iPad.So it’s going to have to come with advances in software, in interfaces and new forms of input, like voice and touch, and the continual improvement [...]