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Software Apartheid
The obnoxious behavior and obscure interaction that software-based products exhibit is institutionalizing what I call “software apartheid,” where otherwise normal people are fobidden from entering the job market and participating in society because they cannot use computers effectively. In our enlightened society, social activists are working hard to break down race and class barriers while…
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Save the Internet!
Is this a Sci-Fi horror story? Nope, it doesn’t look like it. In fact, congress is voting next week on the issue of Net Neutrality which, despite its difficult to decipher name, is a vital issue to everyone who uses the internet today. Here’s the deal: AT&T and other big telephone companies who transfer internet…
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Flickr got a new face!
flickrFace Originally uploaded by josh.ev9. And boy do I like it! They’ve switched from disorganized links all over the place to simple drop-down menus. Noice…now maybe I’ll be able to find links. They could still use a little work on the information architecture at the bottom of the screen, but they did make that significantly…