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From Daring Fireball:

April 1, 2004 by Michael Boyle

From Daring Fireball:

Ronco Spray-On Usability. Daring Fireball by John Gruber is an exceptionally well-written weblog on a variety of interesting subjects. In this case he takes a look at recent complaints about CUPS by the noted Linux evangelist Eric S Raymond.

I don’t know the first thing about Unix programming vs Mac or Windows programming, but the point Gruber makes – that you can’t just approach UI as a nice-to-have afterthought – applies equally well to web development. On the web, form doesn’t follow function. Rather, form and function (at least at a high level) are intertwined to the extent that they are indistinguishable. They are the same job.

Tags: Daring Fireball, Usability

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April 1, 2004 by Michael Boyle

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Floor Statement of Sen. Daschle on the Abuse of Government Power.

Tags: US Politics

We’re mad as hell,

April 1, 2004 by Michael Boyle

We’re mad as hell,

and we’re not gonna take it any more: March For Web Standards | Washington, DC.

Tags: Standards, Web Design

April Fools?

March 31, 2004 by Michael Boyle

April Fools?

It has all the hallmarks of an elaborate April Fool’s joke, but tonight multiple sources are reporting about Gmail, a Google-owned free email service to be launched tomorrow offering 1Gb of storage. So, true or not, Google is going to redefine something tomorrow – it’s just not certain if it’s email – or “well-executed prank” they’re redefining.

Tags: Email, Google

Visualizing news:

March 31, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Visualizing news:

Newsmap is a visual representation of Google News that was published yesterday. “Newsmap’s objective takes that goal [i.e., to visualize a huge amount of information] a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.”

Tags: Media

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