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2013-06-17 08:12:18 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hooray for ubiquitous sensors, #HumanWeb, and whatnot, with absolutely no potential for abuse.

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/spotsquad-parking-violation-app-2013-06-13

2013-06-16 13:58:53 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Yes, after being a genre for centuries and consuming 1/3 of all Internet bandwidth, it will be an academic journal that normalizes porn. 

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/15/sex-studies-journal-editors-accused-of-normalizing-porn/

2013-06-12 14:14:28 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Well, if that isn't a kick to some egos...

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/06/11/stroumboulopoulos-premiere-on-cnn-ranks-as-second-lowest-telecast-in-timeslot-for-2013/186816/

2013-06-06 09:38:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://www.angrymath.com/2013/06/facebook-removes-downloads-of-your-posts.html

2013-06-03 07:43:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Your public open data resource does not have a feature to export data in any structured format. Do you: c) make sure that it supports datasets documented in Imperial Aramaic and Old Irish.

(No offense intended to anyone who was banging out XML on their tablets before the Holy Roman Empire...)

2013-05-20 08:28:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

From a manuscript I'm proofreading:

"Besides the fact that people were always in good spirits at the meetings, at every meeting there were refreshments that further supported the atmosphere."

2013-05-16 17:55:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Foreign investors are throwing money into questionably lawful regiemes all over the world that more or less inhibit repatriation of profits. See China.

If the well governed liberal democracy of the UK can't extract enough value from foreign investment attracted by generous repatriation carrots, it may not be a good idea to invest in the UK with or without carrots.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22549434

2013-05-16 10:50:11 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 10 +1s)

Haha, I kid because I love. :)

#GoodOldDays  

2013-05-15 19:47:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In case anyone is missing out on the #zpanel  drama...

http://imgur.com/a/lzRuo

2013-05-07 13:50:38 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Look for a bumper crop of substitutes based on Canvas and SVG within the next 12 months. And another shortly after as people discover that those come with animation built in, unlike PhotoShop and Illuatrator/InDesign.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57582735-92/adobe-kills-creative-suite-goes-subscription-only/

2013-05-02 16:42:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

No need for Google Glass to visualize this #ifihadglass  

http://minoritieswearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com

2013-05-02 13:27:54 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The root cause of the Boston Marathon attack: *Actors*, apparently...

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/01/new-documents-reveal-homeland-security-deeply-involved-in-boston-bombing/

2013-05-02 08:36:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

An authorless and (almost?) unfindable +Computerworld  article from 1999 is apparently one of the most (re-)cited sources in #ERP research:

"Crucial success factors in an ERP makeover, Computerworld, November 29 (1999) 45."

2013-04-27 17:12:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Definitely not Glass...

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Game_(episode)

2013-04-27 13:16:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

My response is usually "Where do you think I'm from?"

http://www.racialicious.com/2012/08/20/the-where-are-you-really-from-power-dynamic/

2013-04-22 18:13:14 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

It appears that we've passed peak soil.

(from a current project)

2013-04-17 12:52:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

As a well-funded start-up investment firm, +McRockCapital can afford the finest in Microsoft Office PowerPoint technology to produce a report that's not visually jarring at all.

http://www.mcrockcapital.com/uploads/1/0/9/6/10961847/the_pheonix_report_2013_final.pdf

2013-04-17 08:06:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

TIL: Bilingual HTML comments exist on many Government of Canada websites

2013-04-16 11:36:31 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#Drupal people:

Is biblio's XML export function brain-damaged by design (no schema?!?) or am I just dealing with (someone else's) misconfiguration?

2013-04-08 16:38:20 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

It's been 20 years since we discussed business process reengineering. Since social media now looks like a routine and dull a business process, it's time for someone to make a few kilobux on "social media reengineering".

2013-04-08 07:30:02 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Dear +Apple (who are too shy to be on G+):  #uxfail  

To display this message, Finder needed to have compared the proposed file name with specific rules. Why not tell the user which specific rule a name violates, and offer to remove the offending characters for the user? Or at least let the user edit the proposed file name, rather than deleting all the user's input (as was shown SATIRICALLY, not as a design recommendation, in the Jetsons)? 

Also: "Punctuation marks" include periods, hyphens, and apostrophes, which are all valid characters in a file name. Why does your message box lie to the user?

2013-04-02 10:04:34 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

I wish more #smartphone engineers who understand UX and have thought about this woud work at Google.

2013-03-17 18:12:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

With apologies to the several smart and not visibly brain-damaged lawyers I know.

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2227155

2013-03-12 14:59:19 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

#MSOffice  Crash reporter crashed... #meta  

2013-03-11 09:40:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Hello Monday. #MSOffice

2013-03-01 11:11:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Columns can be sorted by double clicking the almost invisible
square next to the column headline"

Slide 19/40 explaining a form in a new module in a multi-million-euro SAP system... #uxfail.

2013-02-27 09:16:49 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

TIL: GNU memos override international IP treaties.

"Since GPL prevents proprietary appropriation of work in the public domain..." -Rolandsson et al. (2011)

2013-02-26 22:23:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Sure, I can send you a high-res version of an image from five books ago...

2013-02-24 13:55:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What are some good browsers for OSX that do not get their proxy configurations from System Preferences, and have a sane way to handle self-signed and other non-public certificates? 

+Mozilla Firefox used to be good for this kind of development, until they nerfed the security configuration settings.

2013-02-23 16:59:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In someone else's published paper:

"For users, ease of mastery is linked to user-friendly and familiar design and commandos"

2013-02-21 23:42:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Booths cashier at T3 had never seen one before. They could be stingy, but I'd prefer to think that +British Airways rarely mess up badly enough to need to issue these since I've had nothing but great experiences with BA.

2013-02-20 19:51:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#ifihadglass I would visualize relationships in the world's ecological data to enable scientists, policy-makers, stakeholders, and the public to all see what we know, and, more importantly, discover what's next.

2013-02-20 09:09:49 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

A colleague wrote in another channel:

Why, at 12:45am do I make the ridiculous mistake of pressing 'no' to MS word's question "do you want to save this document before closing?" Why oh why oh why do I do these things...

A better question might be: Why does Word (and almost every other application) give users the option to so easily lose work, when it costs so little to save a temporary copy when quitting? Smarter applications save a copy to a different file when they quit by crashing, why not save such a copy when quitting under any circumstance?

#ux

2013-02-19 20:58:39 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Word's blank menu and spinning beach ball of death are probably signs that I should take a break from this document.

2013-02-18 20:50:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Economics poetry.

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2207353

2013-02-13 20:00:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Seems legit.

2013-02-08 12:49:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Hey, Mekentosj +Papers iOS, what interaction does this combination of elements seek from me?

2013-02-07 12:45:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

GB 2312 and grep. Never again.

2013-02-07 10:26:06 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Really, OS X Calendar? How did you parse a 25,000-year event from that text?

2013-02-06 17:14:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I wonder who funded this?

http://www.mailaletter.com/

2013-02-06 13:03:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Mendeley looks like a bust for this project. It can't even open Chinese script PDFs correctly. Off to try mekentosj +Papers iOS next.

2013-02-01 19:25:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Hey, +GIMP. It's time we had the talk. You know how you always believed that Comic Sans is a serious typeface for grown-up stuff? Well, it's not. We've been letting you call many other typefaces "Comic Sans" because you're just not very good at telling typefaces apart.

You'll learn, someday. You just need to try harder.

2013-01-31 21:53:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Outsource call screening to India. Problem solved, for a time.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/print/82275

2013-01-31 12:37:02 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Dear +GIMP developers: Knowing that your app is about to spend minutes on something, do you: c) get the splash screen out of the way so I can do some useful work. #userhostile

2013-01-29 07:05:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Dear Globe and Mail: Literally inflammatory headlines like this harm political discourse.

Few Canadians want to 'ignite' any debate about anything. Most can debate like reasoning human beings. 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/canadians-dont-want-abortion-debate-reignited-poll-finds/article7902348/

2013-01-28 20:04:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-surpasses-Twitter-to-take-number-2-social-network-after-Facebook_id39150

2013-01-25 12:04:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Awesome. Trying +GIMP for the first time in years, and it somehow ate or crashed Finder and refuses to get out of the way of other application windows. Can't even cmd+tab to Terminal to shut this down cleanly...

2013-01-24 10:53:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The Internet is broken:
It's 2013. Why do I have to print web pages as PDF representations of pieces of paper in order to make durable and portable annotations?

2013-01-09 22:29:07 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Can't tell if The Onion....

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/obert-madondo/chief-theresa-spences-her_b_2408049.html

2013-01-01 04:02:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Glad to be troubleshooting database connections on NYE so that the IT director can enjoy his new grandchild in another city. Congrats!