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getting the message out…
Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives
by Anna Kaley on June 30, 2019
Summary: Whether modal or not, most overlays appear at the wrong time, interrupt users during critical tasks, use poor language, and contribute to user disorientation.
The Nielsen Norman Group explains it well. Again.
By Alfie Kohn
Opinion | Why Can’t Everyone Get A’s? – The New York Times
For a generation now, school reform has meant top-down mandates for what students must be taught, enforced by high-stakes standardized tests and justified by macho rhetoric — “rigor,” “raising the bar,” “tougher standards.”
Next time you wonder why New York Times people get so defensive, read this. – PressThink:
The readers of the New York Times have more power now. They have more power because they have more choices. And because the internet, where most of the reading happens, is inherently two-way. Also because Times journalists are now exposed to opinion and reaction on social media. And especially because readers are paying more of the costs. Their direct payments are keeping the Times afloat. This will be increasingly so in the future, as the advertising business gets absorbed by the tech industry. The Times depends on its readers’ support more than it ever has.
Libraries Considered Hazardous | February 2019 | Communications of the ACM:
All this tells us is that persistent accumulation of knowledge requires care and curation over time. One might even imagine that digital online libraries might have the ability to update themselves as new knowledge is added. John McCarthyb once said to me, “Do you know, 100 years from now they will say, ‘100 years ago they had books that didn’t talk to each other!'” It will be an enormous task to devise methods to accumulate and curate digital content and its relevant metadata including provenance and validity. Will computer, information, and library science be up to the task? We can but try.
Books that don’t talk to each other? Who knew?
Almost all of my writing in blogs is happening at
Spending a whole lot of time buried in manuals trying to self-teach. Not easy. I grew up this way.
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testing micro.blog
I need to get better at doing this. In theory this post to my blog should mirror to micro.blog – excelsiorz
Comparing City Street Orientations – Geoff Boeing
We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860
The art of data analysis.
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Red Sweater Blog
MarsEdit 4.1.2 is now available for download from the MarsEdit home page and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.
Seems like a good way to test the Safari extension.