AWS and Blockchain, Tim Bray
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain
And then there was the other faction, all about number-go-up-we’ll-get-rich; these were the days of ICOs, each sketchier than the last. There was still a gaping hole when we asked “What useful thing does it do?”
“The leaked New York Times innovation report…” Nieman Lab 2014: http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-of-this-media-age/
- Don’t rely on front-page changes.
- Promote great archival content.
- Add coherent, consistent structured-data: tagging, collections, etc..
- Offer template choices for better, more versatile presentations.
- Learn from users; make changes based on what they do (analytics) and say (surveys).
- Learn from similar sites.
“The Making of Medium.com” Teehan+Lax 2014: http://www.teehanlax.com/story/medium/
“Prototypes allowed us to see things in one of two ways: Things that don’t work, and things that need work.”
“The Internet With A Human Face” Maciej Cegłowski 2014: http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm
Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference Talk
“The first half is this incredibly dark rant about how the Internet is alienating and inhuman, how it’s turning us all into lonely monsters. But in the second half, I’ll turn it around and present my vision of an alternative future. I’ll get the audience fired up like a proper American motivational speaker. After the big finish, we’ll burst out of the conference hall into the streets of Düsseldorf, hoist the black flag, and change the world… As I was preparing this talk, however, I found it getting longer and longer. In the interests of time, I’m afraid I’m only going to be able to present the first half.” “‘Big data’ has this intoxicating effect. We start collecting it out of fear, but then it seduces us into thinking that it will give us power. In the end, it’s just a mirror, reflecting whatever assumptions we approach it with.” “It’s not just possible, but fairly common for someone to visit a Google website from a Google device, using Google DNS servers and a Google browser on the way. This is a level of of end-to-end control that would have caused us to riot in the streets if Microsoft had attempted it in 1999. But times have changed.” “Investor storytime is a cancer on our industry. Because to make it work, to keep the edifice of promises from tumbling down, companies have to constantly find ways to make advertising more invasive and ubiquitous.”
“Telling stories about screens for screens” Matthew Latkiewicz 2014: https://medium.com/@mattlatmatt/telling-stories-about-screens-for-screens-4f380faecd3f
“TheFutureOfInteractionDesign” Bret Victor 2011: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/
“In the Beginning was the Command Line” Neal Stephenson 1999: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
“Information Management: A Proposal” Tim Berners-Lee 1989: http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html
What Is Code?
BUSINESSWEEK JUNE 11, 2015 BY PAUL FORD
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/
“PowerPoint Is Evil” Edward Tufte 2003: https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
“PowerPoint Does Rocket Science–and Better Techniques for Technical Reports“: https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB
“Wireframes are Works of Fantasy” Jonathan Kahn 2010: http://lucidplot.com/2010/07/19/wireframes-fantasy/
“How A Story From World War II Shapes Facebook Today” Mark Wilson 2012: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671172/how-a-story-from-world-war-ii-shapes-facebook-today
“Modern Medicine” Jonathan Harris 2012: http://farmerandfarmer.org/medicine/index.html
“Effective Web Experimentation as a Homo Narrans” Dan McKinley 2013: http://mcfunley.com/effective-web-experimentation-as-a-homo-narrans
“The Cathedral and the Bazaar” Eric Steven Raymond 1997: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
“Groupthink: The brainstorming myth.” Jonah Llehrer 2012: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer
“Profiling Doesn’t Work? More Profiling!” Nathaniel Burney 2011: http://burneylawfirm.com/blog/2011/04/23/profiling-doesnt-work-solution-more-profiling/
“Chaos Monkey Released Into The Wild” Neflix 2012: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-chaos-monkey.html: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-into-wild.html
https://blog.codinghorror.com/working-with-the-chaos-monkey/
Raise your hand if where you work, someone deployed a daemon or service that randomly kills servers and processes in your server farm. Now raise your other hand if that person is still employed.
Jacob Neilson
maybe:: “We’ve been trained to make paper” Ben Balter
something by Zeldman
maybe include some financial stuff like the rewrite of the Times article: about the FB IPO, and the WSJ editors -net conflations, -inter & -ether.
“Not invented here” syndrome is not unique to the IT world” POUL-HENNING KAMP 2013: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2559901
“Blindly deciding that information technology will be substituted for humans is unenlightened. IT is not a magic potion that makes unpleasant or inconvenient things disappear.”
What was that other one about how Healthcare.gov, : and all .gov projects, are crippled from the start.: The guy had bidded on a .gov project: His team estimated $400K,: so he doubled that and bid $800K. He didn’t get the contract.: The firm that did billed $19M
While cooling your heels in SD,: we should assemble a list of these seminal IT/Web docs: (mostly blog posts it seems) that shape how we thing, like:
“Institutional memory and reverse smuggling” An engineer 2011: http://wrttn.in/04af1a
https://web.archive.org/web/20120103184430/http://wrttn.in/04af1a
“Google Platforms Rant” Steve Yegge 2011: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
“What Screens Want” Frank Chimero 2013: http://frankchimero.com/what-screens-want/
“Seven ways to think like the web” Jon Udell 2011: http://blog.jonudell.net/2011/01/24/seven-ways-to-think-like-the-web/
“Life Below 600px” Paddy Donnelly 2009: http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
“Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags” Clay Shirky 2005: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
“Web Discussions: Flat by Design” Jeff Atwood 2012: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/12/web-discussions-flat-by-design.html
Discourse: http://www.discourse.org/about/
The New, Convoluted Life Cycle Of A Newspaper Story
By Lauren Rabaino on November 18, 2011 2:37 PM
https://web.archive.org/web/20111227091900/http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/the-new-convoluted-life-cycle-of-a-newspaper-story_b8552
“The Making of Medium” teehan+lax (2013): http://www.teehanlax.com/story/medium/
The problem is that we are trying to predict what people want and deliver it for them. You can’t do that. Not really. Not reliably. There have been precious few people in the world, over the entire history of computing, who have been able to do it reliably. Steve Jobs was one of them. We don’t have a Steve Jobs here. I’m sorry, but we don’t.
Source: Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about six and a half years,…
Tom Coates Is the pace of change really such a shock?
There’s nothing rapid about this transition at all. It’s been happening in the background for fifteen years. So let me rephrase it in ways that I understand. Shock revelation! A new set of technologies has started to displace older technologies and will continue to do so at a fairly slow rate over the next ten to thirty years!… My sense of these media organisations that use this argument of incredibly rapid technology change is that they’re screaming that they’re being pursued by a snail and yet they cannot get away! ‘The snail! The snail!’, they cry. ‘How can we possibly escape!?… There’s hard work to be done, but it’s not in observing the trends or trying to work out what to do, it’s in just getting on with the work of sorting out rights and data and digitisation and keeping in touch with ideas from the ground. This should be the minimum a media organisation should do, not some terrifying new world of fear!… I think this is the most important thing that these organisations need to recognise now – not that change is dramatic and scary and that they have to suddenly pull themselves together to confront a new threat, but that they’ve been simply ignoring the world around them for decades. We don’t needpeople standing up and panicking and shouting the bloody obvious. We need people to watch the industries that could have an impact upon them, take them seriously, don’t freak out and observe what’s moving in their direction and then just do the basic work to be ready for it. The only way that snails catch you up is if you’re too self-absorbed to see them coming.
Content:
The Discipline of Content Strategy
by Kristina Halvorson December 16, 2008
http://alistapart.com/article/thedisciplineofcontentstrategy
Does the rise of ephemeral content spell the death of archives?
By Melody Kramer • June 16, 2015
http://www.poynter.org/2015/does-the-rise-of-ephemeral-content-spell-the-death-of-archives/351053/
18F Digital Services Delivery
Content debt: What it is, where to find it, and how to prevent it in the first place
May 19, 2016
by Melody Kramer
https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/05/19/content-debt-what-it-is-where-to-find-it-and-how-to-prevent-it-in-the-first-place/
Six years in the Valley
https://www.economist.com/business/2009/03/19/six-years-in-the-valley
Perhaps most dangerously, Web 2.0 still had only one business model, advertising, and the Valley was refusing to admit that only one company (Google) with only one of its products (search advertising) had proved that the model really worked.