May 2009
6 posts
With apologies to @jmspool, and rant on Twitter...
jmspool: The problem with the @ reply fix is it's all or nothing, when it should be based on conversations. (See the interesting. Avoid the boring.)
noahmittman: It's not a fix if you don't want to see them, it's Twitter shouting, i.e., you might as well preceed the update with 'hey'
jmspool: That's my point. Add 'hey' (a great idea, btw) puts the responsibility on the tweeter, when it really should be the reader's.
noahmittman: True, but "responsibility" is a hard word to justify when it comes to Twitter. Last "hey" post I saw was an LOL and emoticon. || If it's not actually valuable, the user is just spamming the 97% who didn't use it for some conversation boasting || Using profile pages has always been the way to see everyone's conversations, which is compl. foreign now thanks to the API clients || Those who live in replies 80/20 would take over a user's timeline 4x over if they adopted this "fix" || Why not simply reply to someone and then update "having a great convo with @user" -- If it's worth telling me about it, then *tell me.*
The myth of building your own blog
Many people believe that in order to have a “proper” blog you have to build it yourself. For most people, this is becoming less and less the case. Unless you are a back-end programmer, it doesn’t make much of a difference.
But Noah! Why would you stuff all your work on wordpress.com when you can host it yourself? Well, are you? Are you really hosting it yourself?
Truth is,...
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About a hinge.
I recently placed my pre-order for the N97, and as part of the build-up to the shipping of the device, Nokia published this video about the design of the phone available to all on their new Nseries blog. I find this video particularly interesting because of the emphasis they put into the feel and sound of the device’s slider.
A few years ago, Donald Norman shifted his usability writings...
WatchThe Making of the Nokia N97, as posted on Nokia’s Nseries blog.
The 526-word entry associated with this video has been moved to a new post because according to Tumblr caption text is caption text, period, and was not appearing in all outputs of the website.