November 2009
12 posts
Product Design Debt vs. Technical Debt →
@abtests
WatchGraffiti Animated: 5 Years of Art Outside Serge Gainsbourg’s Home William Gibson
The Memento Project: Time Machine for the Web →
A proposal to use HTTP content negotiation for retrieving archival versions of web pages. Nat Torkington
UPDATE: A New Scientist article on the Memento Project
301Works: Preserving your shortened links →
The Internet Archive has just announced 301Works.org, an initiative to maintain all our shortened URL links for posterity. Quite a few shortening services have joined the party, most notably industry *cough* leader bit.ly.
In short, each service regularly uploads their shortened URLs and their expanded counterparts to IA, who holds the data in escrow. Should any of these services cease...
For App Store pros, review *after* release →
A proposal by Michael Rose Daniel Jalkut
“If we can’t make clear why customers pay a lot of money to play games on...”
– Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo AppleInsider
“All experts are blind. Expertise means you become blind to everything else. You...”
– Osho, Indian mystic Dr. Detlef Reis
John Lasseter's 7 Rules for Creativity
Originally published in German newsmagazine Sueddeutsche Zeitung, John Lasseter of Pixar fame lays out his seven rules for creative work:
Never come up with just one idea
Remember the first laugh
Quality is a great business plan
It’s the team, stupid
Fun invokes creativity, not competition
Creative output always reflects the person on top
Surround yourself with creative people whom...
WatchWunderman’s GreenSaver shames you into turning off your monitor, by turning it into an energy-sucking appliance. Creativity Online
MUJI's Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics →
The Japanese knife adapts to the cook’s skill (not to the cook’s thumb). This is, in a nutshell, Japanese simplicity.
Making Privacy Policies Not Suck →
Taking inspiration from Creative Commons, can a simple visual language rescue privacy policies from lawyerese? Nat Torkington
The Green IP Commons: Pooling Patents for Planet... →