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People talking to each other
John Welch would like you to stop overcomplicating things which are really very simple:
So what do you do when you’re faced with someone who is ranting and raving, probably in an obscene fashion about your product or company? Talk To Them I don’t mean talk at them, or quote [...]
John Scalzi was Right
Was taken by this quote:
And while we’re agreeing with John Scalzi, let’s also note that yes, honestly, the attitudes of the “big three” toward electronic submission really have, over the last decade, gone from “practical response to unsolved problems of electronic mail and text” to “old man [...]
Who Watches the Watchman?
Christopher Fahey:
From a behavioral perspective, I find the watchclock fascinating not simply because it’s a kind of steampunk GPS, a wind-up mechanical location-awareness technology. I’m further fascinated at how this holistic system of watchclocks, keys, guards, and supervisors succeeded so completely in creating a method of behavioral control such that a human being’s [...]
Rands In Repose: Keynote Kung-fu Two
Rands:
The rule is: if you’re starting a presentation by endlessly fussing with your presentation design, you probably don’t have anything to say.
Also see: Keynote Kung-Fu.
Hivelogic - ExpressionEngine: The Details
Dan Benjamin:
The Path is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
Letting go of how you believe things should be is the hardest part of learning.
On advertising
At A Working Library, Mandy is afraid that we are victims of a kind of Gresham’s Law of web content and advertising.
There is no end to this, in that short of eviscerating the content all together (and removing any impetus the reader might have to visit in the first place), [...]
