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Links for March 30th
- The iPad and Innovation Theory « Scott Berkun
- "If they do use it, what will they be using it instead of? This is an interesting exercise for designers and makers – it focuses you on people’s behavior, or how you imagine them behaving, rather than getting lost in the abstract wonders of devices and technologies…"
- A List Apart: Articles: Contrast is King
- Understanding color contrast, especially in light of accessibility issues such as colorblindness.
- How to use HTML5 in your client work right now | HTML5 Doctor
- Great overview of what we can do with HTML5 in client work right now, while still being sure that things work for IE users without JavaScript, for example.
Links for March 28th
- Anti-Slavery
- "Anti-Slavery International is the only UK charity working to eradicate modern slavery, and is the world's oldest international human rights organisation."
Links for March 26th
- 10 Principles of UX – 52 Weeks of UX
- List of 10 principles of UX. In addition to the fact that they are just really good to know, I'm struck by the resonance that many of these have with theological and ecclesiological thought that I think we need to be engaging in as part of this Theology After Google discussion.
Links for March 25th
- YouTube – Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek
- Brilliant video preview of a feature that is coming in Photoshop CS5. I really look forward to upgrading.
Links for March 24th
- The hgroup element | HTML5 Doctor
- This examines the hgroup element in HTML5, and when and why we can use it.
- Economic Scene – In Health Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality – NYTimes.com
- Wonderful observation that the healthcare bill is "the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago." This helps explain why, though I wish the bill had things like a public option, it is still a deeply important bill and I'm deeply grateful that it passed.
Links for March 22nd
- User-Centered Innovation Is Not Sustainable – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review
- On the limitations of user-centered design. "Only leaders and designers who are driven by a vision and who explicitly search a priori for those sustainable behaviors can tune out the unsustainable needs of 99% of users and focus on the few exceptions." It's important to notice what this article does not say: that user insights are not precious and necessary. They are. But here, they are necessary within the context of a vision, and in this example there is focus on users who are needles of sustainability in the haystacks of consumption.
Links for March 21st
- Robert Paterson's Weblog: Why our problems are complex – Why our current institutions cannot cope
- Great, though quick and necessarily broad, read on Emergence theory and the shifting of our power institutions.
Links for March 19th
- Michelle Obama’s Health Campaign | onehandclapping
- Julie Clawson reflects upon MIchelle Obama's attempts to end childhood obesity, and specifically the statement that the government shouldn't be telling folks what to do. Julie observes that it is, in fact, the government's financial subsidies that are in part the cause of so much of the problem.
- An Absolution Revolution blog » The irony of progress
- "However else it may be defined, it is generally agreed that a (if not the) major feature of modernity is the pervasiveness of the myth of progress." Reflection upon the modern myth of progress, and the ways in which it is still alive and affecting us.
- Ezekiel 20:25-26 and the Condesending God » Blog » Greg Boyd (Christus Victor Ministries)
- Greg Boyd examines a text in Ezekiel, and what it says about how God works in the world. Compelling observations that make me really exited about the upcoming book he mentions.
Links for March 18th
- Solidarity and Resistance in Community 4: A Death to Death | the Jesus Manifesto
- Fourth part of a series that investigates solidarity and resistance in community. This part examines what resistance actually means, and deals with hard questions regarding the results of nonviolent resistance when compared to its more violent counterparts. I'm not sure there are any satisfactory answers to these questions, but they are important ones.
- To Create OR To Aggregate, That is The Question. | The Connected Marketer
- Great thoughts on the concept of content creation, and the balance involved in creating a balanced user experience that includes original content and other kinds, such as user-generated content.
- "No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame
- Simple piece of ecommerce and overall form usability that is overlooked far too often. There's no reason to force the entry of credit card numbers, phone numbers, etc. in a specific manner as far as spaces, dashes, parentheses, and so on; we can strip out all of these when we process the forms.
Links for March 17th
- 24-7 Prayer International // Features // Prayer and Justice by Alana Wiens
- Great thoughts from 24-7 Prayer on justice – its links to prayer and action, and also the differences between charity and justice.
- Solidarity and Resistance in Community 3: On Private Property | the Jesus Manifesto
- Third part of a series that investigates solidarity and resistance in community. This part examines the concept of private property, and what kind of effects it can have on people and what should be done about it. I'm not sure that I agree with any of the options that are put forth, but it's the kind of language that can cause us to think, and I do agree that this is necessary.
- Using HTML5 elements in WordPress post content – Nicolas Gallagher — Blog & Ephemera
- Using HTML5 in WordPress post content. Without these options, WordPress tries to add all kinds of unnecessary HTML, so this is incredibly helpful whether one is using HTML5 or even XHTML.
- Cameron Moll: Designer, Speaker, Author New Design, New Host, and Tumblr: How, Why
- Cameron Moll writes about the methods and reasons for his new blog's design. I'm really interested in his thoughts on combining external links with longer articles, and have pondered doing that with this site. We'll see.
- Pentecostal Scholars Call for Academic Freedom | Sexuality & Gender | ReligionDispatches
- The former president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies reflects upon her resignation, the culture wars that rage within the society, and a new academic study that will try to avoid the “echo chamber” of the SPS.
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