Wilson Miner: When We Build

Posted on January 25, 2012

“Design is the choices we make about the world we want to live in.”

Data Data Everywhere and Not a Drop of Value

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Posted on January 5, 2012

Data, big, medium or small, has no value in and of itself. The value of data is unlocked through context and presentation.

Bryce Roberts — Data Data Everywhere and Not a Drop of Value.

WordPress.com idea: Nothing but custom CSS page template

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For those who have the custom design upgrade enabled on WordPress.com, it would be neat if we offered a bare, stripped to the basics page template you could style to your hearts delight. For instance, if I do a year in review post, it might be nice to prepare a unique design for that. Dustin Curtis is notable for producing custom layouts for each post.

Obviously you can do this now, but you first need to reset a lot of design first. If you switch themes, there’s no guarantee your resets will still work.

Google Reader redesign: terrible decision or worst decision?

Posted on November 14, 2011

Google’s current “bet everything on social now because we missed the boat” movement feels a lot like Microsoft’s “bet everything on the internet because we missed the boat” movement in 1997.

Marco Arment — Google Reader redesign: terrible decision or worst decision?

Google Reader’s new web interface is unusable for me. Good thing I have Reeder (for now).