from http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/02/lol-pixar-vs-dreamworks/...
Aza Raskin on Usability and Interface
From Google TechTalks YouTube channel: Good quotes: "To the user, the interface is the product." "If you notice the interface, that means you're thinking about the interface and not the thing you're trying to do." "The perfect interface for a...
Buzz Marketing in 1953 Iran
A lot has been written in the past few days about how social media and technology has been at the center of the developments in Iran. But I'd like to go a few decades back. Something rather startling happened...
Anatomy of a Domain Name
Had this half-completed on my hard drive. Sitting here waiting for the dance show to come on and finished it:...
Reminder to Athletes: Always Think of the Sponsor
Dexia reminds the athletes they sponsor the correct way to celebrate victory:http://www.wikimaniacs.com/think-of-your-sponsor/...
What is an API?
An API is a way for website or service to talk to another website or service. APIs let you mix information and media from other services into your own site or application. API stands for 'application programming interface' but...
Adding Social Sharing Buttons to Your Newsletter or Ezine
MarketingSherpa has a case study on a newsletter publisher that used social media sharing buttons in their newsletter. Here' a few nuggets:They asked their subscribers which networks they used.They checked inbound traffic to see where content was already being poseted.They...
When Your Favorite Show Gets Cancelled
Yes it is heart-breaking when your favorite TV show gets cancelled - but imagine the agony when you are the executive producer. Josh Friedman, the creative brain behind the recently-canceled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles lets us inside his disappointment:Losing...
How Twitter Kills Communities
I don't completely agree with this angle but a thread on Metafilter offers some insights into Twitter and its effect on online communities:It's for people who want to post innocuous, witty, generally self-promoting, usually uninformative things about themselves. ... Basically,...
7 Basic Principles of Magic (Penn and Teller)
Part of this Wired article on neuroscience and illusion...
Back Away From the Muffin
From my contact form:Matt writes:why is there a totally different guy on the front page of your site and in the Media Room?That old black and white photo is from my theatre days and was used in the dust jacket...
Microsoft Hates Their Customers
I'm sure that Microsoft is packed full with immensely talented developers and engineers and designers and other smarty-pantses. But whoever makes strategic decisions like these clearly hates their customers:A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens...
Google Wave Obliterates Everything
It is rare that I get excited about a keynote for a developer conference. I even forced Ron to wake up as I started watching this because it is completely blowing my mind. Email, instant messaging, wikis, forums, blogs, mobile,...
User-Friendly Zombie Apocalypse
A fascinating deck of slides from Valve software company illustrating how they use artificial intelligence to ratchet dramatic tension up and down: Replayable Cooperate Game Design in Left 4 Dead (several more sets of slides from the Valve guys)....
Profanity in Business Blogging
From my contact form:Can't believe that Michael Port suggested this as a good example of a blog in his book Book Yourself Solid. The foul language is something I'd hear from a prepubescent kid and quite frankly made me question...
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