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25th October 2005

Writing sensible email messages

“As we’ve seen before, getting your inbound email under control will give you a huge productivity boost, but what about all the emails you send? If you want to be a good email citizen and ensure the kind of results you’re looking for, you’ll need to craft messages that are concise and easy to deal with.”

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25th October 2005

Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes

“Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.”

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25th October 2005

design your life

“Design is a distinctive way of thinking, a tool kit for looking at life and deciding how to live it. This Web site is an invitation to people from all walks of life to share stories and evidence of how they use design in their everyday lives. People use design to solve problems, improve situations, and invent ideas and make them physically real. How do you use design at home, at work, and in your social world?”

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25th October 2005

Feeding the Iron Dinosaur

“The monster that will devour the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News isn’t even on the radar of the bosses at Knight-Ridder. And their plans to curtail news coverage and print more advertising will only make this creature more powerful. That monster is Google…”

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