I’ve been thinking about the conflict between marketing and developers for some time, and then yesterday, I read an article by Don Norman about the death of simplicity that goes right to my point. Here’s a snippet:
It appears that marketing won the day. And I suspect marketing was right. Would you pay more [...]
Read this and then read this.
I am on a mailing list with some friends from college, and a year or two ago, someone finally got up the gumption to make a list of everyone’s addresses, anniversaries, birthdays, kids’ names, and so forth. That list took the form of an Excel spreadsheet, which gets emailed around periodically and updated sporadically. [...]
Google has finally enabled Gmail to fetch mail from other accounts. I use Gmail for a lot of my email, but if you send mail to some of my addresses, it still goes to my own server, and I download it with Thunderbird. Unfortunately, the accounts on that server get about 1000 spam messages [...]
Last week, over on the link blog, I pointed to a kottke.org blog post that in turn pointed to a New York Times article about email sign-offs. For some reason, that article has been bumping around in my brain since then, because it relates to a topic that has been much on my mind for [...]
I got an email yesterday offering me 1500 bucks if I’d put ten text links to “sponsors” for one year in the sidebar of this site. Lots of other sites have gone this route, so there’s not really any novelty here, other than that I’ve never gotten such an offer, and I never knew [...]
A wry commentator on office life, he may be, but he should probably reserve his opinions on politics. His assessment of the Presidency:
I doubt Bill Gates is considering a run for president right now, largely because it’s so hard to make a difference from that job.
You’d think that Adams had been living under [...]