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[ ] Your normal people do use Mac OS X Leopare [X] Your normal people do not use Mac OS X Leopard

Time Machine is the solution: everyone gets it (at least the normal people I introduced it to).

By any means: use the visibility you gain from this for your PR/advertising game! Now is the time for a smart play, get the public behind you (in terms of: target audience goes Plurk 'cause it's cool). Granted, this is not 'the solution but an opportunity you can manage to get a win out of this. (Remember, PG wrote the $$ he spent on PR was worth it.)

1. I agree with all your points.

2nd, as someone who makes his dough with writing copy, let me tell you this: the really good writers do use those tricks of the trade without you noticing it. It is similiar to good typography: it doesn't get into the way.

You may want to check out the writings of Gary Halbert or John Carlton to see it in action.

But are there really only four of those?

To know that I am not the only one with such fantasies makes me feel more... more stable? adult? something like that. Thanks for posting it!

My guess is the average non-geek does not think his emails stay private, but they do not think about it at all. Email is something like a hydrant, it's just there, so what?

Videos are value-add when the presentation is well done (in terms of 'stagecraft and being able to see the slides). Merely listening endless ramble designed to keep you on the hook looses against speed-reading the transcript.

> Consider also the absurdity... ..inherently insecure communications channel... This is not only absurd but also irresponsible, irresponsible in a sense that could be made valid in court.

Bad usability not only sucks in a "this sucks, but let suck it up anyway" way, bad usability sucks in a big way, like "this sucks!". It's only bad culture that lets you esteem otherwise.

The idea is to forward your tweet via email to people who only have email adress not a twitter account or facebook or so.

And since when providing 'fadware (for lack of a better term) is an inherently bad thing? People are having fun with theire device, for a couple of bucks. Are we geeks critisizing anyone for /that/? C'om on.

I got a similiar impression from watching a few Carsonified vids, off course one has to be careful with judging too fast. I wonder why Joel wrote the articel that way? He s basically saying in public: Ryan screwed it up but I could wing it because I memorised my speech.

The author tells how he stepped in using the "5 whys?" method. I recall reading that Jeff Bezos used to do the same thing at some point.

To make sure we upvote it because its from Joel.

Sorting dir listings by ASCII (or how this is called) big Names befor lowercas names; that would be a useful feature for me at least. I don't know how much I would trust an app to essentially taking over my system though.

there are some sites marketing paid video tutorials, maybe you could team up there?

My people (the Germans) have this reputation for being impolite. I tend to think this is because we have the tendecy to be brutally direct when we want to be honest. We like to be honest, in that sense anyway, regarding matters of work. This comes off as rude to members of the civilized world (say, the British or Japanese). (I am writing this after +6 years of experience living in foreign countries.)

Another observation: the heroism around doing ones work is strong in Germany, we have that in common with the Americans (in the West, don't ask certain Asians). Yes, certainly there are many French (for instance) fellows, who like theire work. But the Germans (and Americans) have that tendency to get "macho" about it.

> how do we push guidelines out to all web publishers?

By setting an example wherever we go. Be the change, that you want to see on the web.

The best way to disagree is already possible: reply to a comment by stating your opinion. Off course that can have negative effects on signal/noise ratio (or not?).

You are distinguishing between "legacy" and "legacy problem" and thus rendering your own opening 'thesis as moot.

Validating a datapoint as useless/useful is a later step and does not disqualify the collection of data either case.

Yeah, I guess the writer mixed up Seth Godin's and Anderson's writings and felt prey to a misconception. That's quality journalism for you.

Is your username meant as a recursive joke?

Additionally, if you do b2b:

* Charge more.

Finally someone gets it. The model Apple uses at the moment does scale, though. In a point in future you could approve not for a single app but for a whole app store.

Delicious-Library guy said: half of traffic to his site comes from his blog. (I would give URL If I could, this is just me remembering.)

I disagree. There is a contract. What is written in it? That counts. (I am not saying bad customer service is smart business.)

You will do many unpaid or very lowly paid internships in studios with a "name" before you do get a job "designing cool buildings".

There is not much industry organizations in IT. Small shops should found stuff.