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What is Wrong with the Tech Journalism

The problem is with the journalists who write about the web, with their understanding of the subject and literacy of the web in general. The final drop of encouragement for writing this essay was an...

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Now It’s Your Turn Journalist

This article was inspired by an email conversation with Donnacha DeLong, and is a reply to the following articles: Shane Richmond, The NUJ’s blinkered approach to online Jeff Jarvis, The new collective...

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Finally Some Critical Writing About the Web

After writing the previous article ‘What is Wrong with the Tech Journalism’ and thinking more about the portrayal of the Web by off/online journalists, I have finally found a few great articles that...

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Usage of the Term ‘Web 2.0’

Note: In the previous article I suggested that some writers should avoid using the term ‘web 2.0’, and thus probably wrongly implied that they don’t know what web is. The following is an explanation of...

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Time Magazine’s Blind Love for Apple

What do you think is the Invention Of the Year according to the Time Magazine and it’s Best inventions team that has been arguing about the nominees and speaking to the actual inventors since the...

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How Graphic is the Web Design, and How Web is the Graphic Design

Sorry for such a long heading, but it is the question which by itself is an answer to those trying to understand how the web design is different from the graphic design. Designer and writer Armin Vit...

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Browser Version Targeting vs. the Web Standards

The following articles in the latest issue of the A List Apart magazine explain the necessity of browser targeting with the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8, which is expected to be the most...

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Web Design Critique: Consistency and Homogeneity of the Blog Layout

Blogherald.com is a blog featuring news from all around the blogosphere since 2003, and is run by a dozen of contributors and writers. It was founded by Duncan Riley from Australia and is now owned by...

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Is iPhone 3G "S" Slow or Small?

Is Apple really going in the footsteps of Microsoft by creating more and more version of essentially the same product? When seeing iPhone 3G S for the first time I immediately associated “S” with size...

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Building Medium

The making of Medium.com is a truly great insight into how a team of paid designers and developers lead by one vision and visionary try to build a modern day publishing platform. While the idea behind...

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Stop pushing the web forward

Native apps will always be much better at native than a browser. Instead, we should focus on the web’s strengths: simplicity, URLs and reach. The innovation machine is running at full speed in the...

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WordPress.com User Experience

I’m embellishing a bit here, and experienced WordPress users may think the Admin Dashboard is obvious, but try to imagine how this process feels to someone who’s never used WordPress? How would they...

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WordPress.com Usability Issues

Every few month I need to use WordPress.com to create or update a site for a friend. And every time I get frustrated with how confusing and convoluted the user interface is. “Reader” is the default...

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