When I look at thecadmus.com, I realize that @responses are an under utilized feature. There are really very few @replies – even to celebrities and twitter-brities. My take away is that twitter is seen as a place where you talk and you listen, but you don’t talk back as much. This is a little startling (perhaps [...]
Why do I Retweet? Sometimes, I retweet to bookmark things I like. Sometimes, I retweet to establish that I am interested in a topic. And sometimes, I retweet to pass along something I find interesting to people who may not have seen the original tweet. But truth be told, RT is my way of connecting, [...]
People add their thoughts to the internet. A blog, a tweet, a status message, an image, a photo some music. “These thoughts, this music, this image, this joke was inside me, now it is with you” , they say. This expression to an external audience is at times a necessary step to the creative process. [...]
I was at the IxDA redux event today and was listening to Ben Fullerton speak. The central thesis of his talk was: ” … really good ideas and things have been the direct outcome of people working in solitude, and yet we are designing products that make it difficult to attain that very state of [...]
Over the course of the last few weeks, this distinction between types of design approaches has come up in public blogs and private conversations almost half a dozen times: “Some people design keeping in mind the best possible solution for the customer, others design starting from the existing product and work to continuously improve it.” [...]