Comments by Joshua Kaufman
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetIntegrate. Integrate. Integrate. The services are making it easier to do so these days, and with so many bits floating about it’s becoming more critical if you want to maintain your sanity. Here’s how I keep my posting context together at the moment:
I use Twitter for the immediacy of posting quick updates, comments and replies. If those thoughts are more well formed and not time sensitive (like replies), I usually try to post them as “notes” on my blog, unraveled, and use TwitterFeed to automatically import them into Twitter. For more mature ideas and commentary, I’ll post them as an “entry” on my blog. Entries do not get synced to Twitter as the content is lost with the 140 character limit. Blog posts happen rarely enough that I’m happy to tweet them manually. I use the Twitter Facebook app to sync my tweets (and accordingly my blog notes). Beyond this I generally don’t post to Facebook.
The aggregating/reading context of all these bits is just as interesting, but I’ll save that for another post.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHooray for Children’s Book Text!
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAAC is the default import encoder so hopefully most folks don’t have to go through these steps to get that option in the contextual menu.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAAC is the default import encoder so hopefully most folks don’t have to go through these steps to get that option in the contextual menu.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAmazing!!@@@ Congrats to both of you. This made my day :)
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetMore comments on the mark from Stowe Boyd:
http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/09/yammer-tops-tec.html
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI would echo Nicholas and say that I personally think it’s fantastic that someone has taken the Twitter model, a potentially useful platform, and made it actually useful by adding a few well tuned, business minded features. This is obviously smart on an entrepreneurial level, but also smart on a design level because it helps make a business case for all Twitter-like microblogging, which will only help all designers down the road.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetCute - and inspiring.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetYes, this is generally a good design technique, but don’t be mislead: it’s not really Fitt’s Law in action. Fitt’s Law specifically refers to the width of the target. And in each these cases the width of the target is unknown to the user.
I don’t usually condone interfaces that allow you to click on targets when the click target size isn’t obvious, but visual feedback can go a long way in communicating to user where the click target lies.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet“Yeah, me either.”
You mean “neither.” Me neither.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetKatzingers is a sort of Zingerman’s clone based in Columbus, OH also worth checking out.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetA stupid argument, I think. If you give your email to anyone, you've basically allowed them to do whatever you want with it. If you don't want people to *ever* find you via these kinds of tools, don't give out your email. Ever. Opt in data portability across the board will never happen.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHey, you got me. I guess I’m just still bitter that iTunes and Finder don’t provide the option to do nothing for a task as common as inserting a blank CD. (Granted, those screenshots were taken in Panther; I’m not sure if it’s still the same in Leopard.) Sorry, for firing off.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetDoes it strike anyone else as ridiculous that we have to run a script to keep annoying things from happening on our Mac? Part of what has made Apple great is that they start with the basics and then you can turn advanced things on – if you want them. Unfortunately, they’ve made it terribly difficult to do nothing by default for a while now. This kind of behaviour is just rude and needs to stop.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetWow that’s some fresh air.
