archive/ 2009 July
Mobile Productivity
Pat Dryburgh writes about productivity on the Mac and the iPhone/iPod Touch:
This is where the system begins to fall apart when the iPod touch or iPhone are introduced. While Leopard’s Mail.app utilizes the message URL handlers, Mail.app for iPhone does not. This means that if I am checking my email on my iPod touch and [...]
AP goes to war with search engines and blogs
Ed Morrissey writes of the AP’s idiotic plan to limit linking to their pieces:
Let’s just call it the Fast Track to AP Irrelevance. Without a doubt, the new policy will have a chilling effect on blogs and aggregators who normally link to their content. Unfortunately for the AP, that won’t result in an increase of [...]
Let Vick Play
The best thing I’ve read all day about the possibility of Michael Vick being suspended from pro football:
And here I really get riled, because what after all is professional football? Use your imagination a little, and it would be easy to imagine a society – perhaps more civilized than our own – that banned pro [...]
There are no small changes
Des Traynor on the small things in designing a user experience:
There are no tiny features when you’re doing things properly. This is why as a UX designer you need a good understanding of what it takes to implement a feature before you nod your head and write another bullet point.
Is ESPN causing the disaggregation of news content?
Writing at The Daily Dish Conor Friedersdorf writes of the announcement that ESPN will be creating local outlets for sports news:
The disaggregation of newspaper content is an inevitability. Was there civic utility in the fact that a guy going for the sports page happened to see what his local mayor was up to by virtue [...]