I’ve been working on a UI redesign, so have been thinking a lot about User interfaces lately. I thought I’d throw a few of them together on a SlideShare presentation.
Enjoy!
The Streisand Effect is what happens when you try and shut something down online and as a result everyone finds out about it and loads more people see it than would have if you’d kept your mouth shut. It’s origins come from Babs’ suing of a photographer over an aerial photo of her house.
Via Crackunit
It’s easy to get overexcited about the near term potential of the medium — and for cynics, it’s easy to be dismissive about things with quirky names like ‘Twitter’ and ‘blog.’ But something important is going on and though we’re too close to the beginning to know how it unfolds, we’re far enough along to realize it will reshape us.
The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding – via The Huffington Post
When the Guardian asked Jeff Jarvis to comment on news that Rupert Murdoch plans to charge for content, He pulled over off the road on his way home and wrote this:
Newspapers have had 15 years since the launch of the internet browser to reimagine and rebuild themselves for the reality of the post-Guttenberg age. But they didn’t. Now they are trying to reclaim old business models for a new media economy — a link economy, I call it, in which links give content value. Cut yourself off from links, behind pay walls, and you cut yourself off from the internet and its real value.
