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This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. " [ Home Articles Account People Projects FAQ ] Recent blog entries 10 Jul 2009 mako » (Master) Voice I saw Lewis Lapham give a talk a couple months ago at the Boston Athenaeum on new media, the Internet, and civic discourse. My one sentence summary: The problem with giving everyone the ability to raise their voices online is that it makes people less likely to raise their voices, or their fists, in the streets. Syndicated 2009-07-09 23:34:14 from Benjamin Mako Hill 9 Jul 2009 sness » (Journeyer) alpha hubris Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces Great article, with this fantastic quote: "For serious UI geeks, one way to see an intelligent control interface is as a false affordance - like a knob that cannot be turned, or a chair that cannot be sat in. The worst kind of false affordance is an unreliable affordance - a knob that can be turned except when it can't, a chair that's a cozy place to sit except when it rams a hidden metal spike deep into your tender parts." LOL Syndicated 2009-07-09 22:06:00 from sness 9 Jul 2009 Stevey » (Master) Why do you keep torturing yourself? Recently I came to realise that my planning and memory skills weren't adequate to keeping track of what I want to do, and what I need to do. For a while I've been fooling myself into thinking than " emacs ~/TODO " was a good way to keep track of tasks. It really isn't - especially if you work upon multiple machines throughout the week. So I figured I needed something "always available", which these days mostly means an online application / website. Over the years I've looked at many multi-user online "todo-list" applications, and inevitably they all suck. Mostly they suck because they're either too rigid or don't meet my particular way of working, living, and doing "stuff". To my mind : A todo-list should above all make it easy to add ta" .... read entire page
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