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Entries from November 2005

Bloat is good?!

November 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Dave Winer:

Hello. Earth to developers. You’re not supposed to take features out. Products are supposed to bloat, not disappear.

I think the world would be a better place if more developers would start taking features out of their software. I recently abandoned my experiments with the Eclipse editor because it has too many features. […]

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User research and the web: from lab usability to remote user testing

November 18th, 2005 · No Comments

I just posted a comment on Designing for the Sandbox about lab usability versus remote testing on the web, and I wanted to expound a little more.

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Here there be DRM

November 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Rafe Colburn brings up a scary thought:

If I fear that any CD I buy will silently install a bunch of crap on my computer, Apple’s DRM doesn’t sound quite so bad. At least I know what I’m getting.

I hadn’t realized it until I read this, but I honestly fear buying CDs these days. […]

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JCDL 2006 Website

November 6th, 2005 · Comments Off

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Weird Spam Part II

November 4th, 2005 · No Comments

More weird spam. This time weblog comment spam where every link (all 500 of them) was tagged as “nofollow.”

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