Thursday linkfest
Linkfest for Thursday: This week in science podcast. If you want your science news infused with a sense of…
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Is Google ‘white bread for young minds’?
The Times Online has a short piece about the dangers of Google dominance for education, called White bread for…
Podcast/Slides from Web Directions 07 finally up
This was a special talk for two reasons. First, as my opening story explains, I delivered a special surprise…
The untold story of the i-phone
There’s a very good piece in Wired on how the i-phone was made. Unlike most coverage of the i-phone…
Thursday linkfest
Here’s the good stuff I’ve found this week: Conversations on cell phones cause traffic jams. Not a surprise, but…
Comment lottery winners are…
A few weeks ago I posted about a comment lottery, an experiment in rewarding participation on the site –…
Why revision should feel like torture
Reading my first book is infuriating at times, yet I’m happy about it. How can this be? Given the…
Any artofpm corrections?
The revision of Making things happen (formerly known as the art of project management) is wrapping up. As a…
More upcomming speaking
The calendar for this year is filling up, here’s what’s on the calendar for the next few months: January…
Speaking in Vancouver BC, Tue 1/22
I’ll be at VanUE, the Vancouver UX chapter, speaking about creative thinking hacks. Here’s the excerpt: Creative Thinking Hacks…
Thursday linkfest
Innovative minds don’t think alike. I have a love / hate relationship with this article. Can you count the…
The trashing of zen: a rant
George Orwell wrote about what happens when we misuse words. A core theme in the novel 1984 is how…
Stop Saying Innovation – Here’s Why
[Update: an edited version of this post was published at The Economist] I’m confident in this advice: Stop using the word…
Thursday linkfest
Updated list of online games with good UX design. The folks at goodexperience update this list of games with…
What is your dangerous idea?
The folks over at Edge annually pick an interesting question and let leading scientists and notables offer short essays…
Learning from London’s speakers’ corner
On my first trip to London in 1996, on a whim from a blurb in some guidebook, I checked…
Video/podcast from my talk at Lunch 2.0
The talk I did at Lunch 2.0 a few weeks ago at the F5 office in downtown Seattle is…
Usability review #4: Simplygoogle
#4 on the free review list is SimplyGoogle a utility page, exploding out many of the google options onto…
Usability review #3: Ginablack.net
#3 on the free review list is a site for the writer Gina Black. It’s a simple site and…