Scripting News: How future-safe was the first Harvard blogging site?
A cautionary tale from Dave Winer of not considering digital preservation from the outside. We must learn the past. We must.
Archive: July 10th, 2012
A Ship Aground
This is how London looked on my birthday, as recorded by the stationary meatspace protrusion of James’s Ship Adrift.
oldtweets - Laughing Meme
Kellan explains the tech behind Old Tweets …and also the thinking behind it:
I think our history is what makes us human, and the push to ephemerality and disposability “as a feature” is misguided. And a key piece of our personal histories is becoming “the story we want to remember”, aka what we’ve shared.
Mobile > Local « Karen McGrane
Yes, yes, yes! Karen drives home the difference between mobile and local (and there’s more about the myth of the mobile context).
If you’re making an argument for delivering different content to mobile users, or prioritizing content differently based on their context of use, stop for a minute and ask yourself if you mean local content. And if you do mean local content, then say that. Claiming that your travel example extends to cover the “mobile use case” leaves out millions of tasks and users.
Just to belabor this point: people use mobile devices in every location, in every context. Just because you know what type of device someone is using or where she is doesn’t tell you anything about her intention.
Grids, Design Guidelines, Broken Rules, and the Streets of New York City (Global Moxie)
Josh writes about the importance of using rules and systems as tools without being bound by them.
Great Works of Fiction Presents: The Mobile Context | The Haystack.
A really great article from Stephen on how we are mistakenly making assumptions about what users want. He means it, man!