I’ve decided to drop all my subdomain blogs and post only through mled.me
I wrote this post to kick start the move and explain my reasons for starting from scratch.
If you’d like to continue to follow this blog, you’ll need to follow mled.me from now.
Thank you and goodnight.
please please please can you all stop publishing books. take up blogging instead!
hear me out:
students currently pay extortionate amounts of money for books that give them back, neck and shoulder problems in later life. these books took you so long to write that by the time you publish, the content is outdated and actually disadvantages the reader. we have to go to google and grab the latest from a blog.
consider your alternative:
you start a blog, you post nice and regularly with wise critique on your specialist field and students worldwide benefit. you earn money that you would have got from publishing through ad revenue and / or donations. your blog attracts the attention of industry who hire you as a consultant – more money! and as an added bonus, you’re not responsible for the killing of quite so many trees.
please please please can you all stop publishing books. take up blogging instead!
hear me out:
students currently pay extortionate amounts of money for books that give them back, neck and shoulder problems in later life. these books took you so long to write that by the time you publish, the content is outdated and actually disadvantages the reader. we have to go to google and grab the latest from a blog.
consider your alternative:
you start a blog, you post nice and regularly with wise critique on your specialist field and students worldwide benefit. you earn money that you would have got from publishing through ad revenue and / or donations. your blog attracts the attention of industry who hire you as a consultant – more money! and as an added bonus, you’re not responsible for the killing of quite so many trees.
tumblr is much smarter about this, and “freezes” your dashboard as you read through it. when you navigate to the next page, you see the next group of posts without repeats. new posts don’t show up (and “push” everything down) until you refresh the dashboard home.
this is what the big numbers in dashboard page urls are for (/dashboard/2/80000000). i always love the (rare) times when people notice this because it was my baby. david hates ugly urls, so this was one of those ideas i couldn’t just bring up while brainstorming — instead, i just implemented it one afternoon in development and said, “hey, let me show you something cool.”
it’s one of the little things we’ve picked up over time, like aggressively giving every checkbox a clickable <label> or letting the registration form behave like a login form (go ahead, try it), that so many web apps should do if they can. it’s all about the little things.
we need a place to find and share these sorts of ideas.
i wish that more app makers looked to increase the simplicity of their services in such detail. the handful of successful ones, including tumblr and posterous, are produced by those prepared to invest the time and effort in lowering the entry barriers, the learning curve, and the annoying clumsy habits.
i think the biggest problem is that a lot of developers don’t actually use and live with their creations. this is certainly the case with software developed away from the web. i’ve witnessed first hand the “us and them” attitude or the developers being locked away in dark rooms a million miles from the end users and there being an expectation that problems should be formally reported or lived with.
living and working on the web is so enticing because those two activities go hand in hand – you work on something, then you live with it.
i’d like a feature added to tumblr – once a post has been published, if you had unticked the “post to twitter” box then return to it to edit it there’s no tick box to decide to post it to twitter.
what tumblr needs is something in between launchpad and brainstorm
tumblr is much smarter about this, and “freezes” your dashboard as you read through it. when you navigate to the next page, you see the next group of posts without repeats. new posts don’t show up (and “push” everything down) until you refresh the dashboard home.
this is what the big numbers in dashboard page urls are for (/dashboard/2/80000000). i always love the (rare) times when people notice this because it was my baby. david hates ugly urls, so this was one of those ideas i couldn’t just bring up while brainstorming — instead, i just implemented it one afternoon in development and said, “hey, let me show you something cool.”
it’s one of the little things we’ve picked up over time, like aggressively giving every checkbox a clickable <label> or letting the registration form behave like a login form (go ahead, try it), that so many web apps should do if they can. it’s all about the little things.
we need a place to find and share these sorts of ideas.
i wish that more app makers looked to increase the simplicity of their services in such detail. the handful of successful ones, including tumblr and posterous, are produced by those prepared to invest the time and effort in lowering the entry barriers, the learning curve, and the annoying clumsy habits.
i think the biggest problem is that a lot of developers don’t actually use and live with their creations. this is certainly the case with software developed away from the web. i’ve witnessed first hand the “us and them” attitude or the developers being locked away in dark rooms a million miles from the end users and there being an expectation that problems should be formally reported or lived with.
living and working on the web is so enticing because those two activities go hand in hand – you work on something, then you live with it.
i’d like a feature added to tumblr – once a post has been published, if you had unticked the “post to twitter” box then return to it to edit it there’s no tick box to decide to post it to twitter.
what tumblr needs is something in between launchpad and brainstorm
woo! i’m making another blog!
it’s for @decisionsx2 again. unlike the #launch48 event tumblr blog though, it’s going to be using wordpress.
we’re going to be using the blog as our vehicle for marketing, feedback and superb pr campaign(s).
at the moment i’ve put it up on ddwp.mled.me. once it looks vaguely respectable, i’ll get the theme moved to its real home.
woo! i’m making another blog!
it’s for @decisionsx2 again. unlike the #launch48 event tumblr blog though, it’s going to be using wordpress.
we’re going to be using the blog as our vehicle for marketing, feedback and superb pr campaign(s).
at the moment i’ve put it up on ddwp.mled.me. once it looks vaguely respectable, i’ll get the theme moved to its real home.
last night i entered (successfully) for #launch48, or rather launch48.com, which is this weekend. i’m really scared that the snow will cause me problems getting there, but i can only hope for the best.
i’ve been brainstorming ideas, and have come up with an idea away from some of my favourite startup ideas that i accrued and collected during my bachelors. it’s an idea that’s definitely outside my comfort zone in terms of my knowledge of the product – women’s fashion, or more specifically shoes.
i don’t think that matters though. the key to my business model is delivery of the product, and i think it’s a powerful plan because it could be leveraged to market products other than shoes. i’m hoping that the folks at #launch48 will see the opportunity that this concept provides for the long term because it’s a business that could prosper and grow far beyond the weekend.
we shall see.
i’ve had a couple of successes with the inq1 phone today, which i’m going to go blog about over on my inq1 blog. i’ve not really launched that blog yet in the sense that this is the first public mention of it. i’m not sure if i ever will formally release the blog because i don’t want it to be the focus. i plan to write a great review on inq1 for thinkabouttech.com, so for the moment this post and a mention of the blog in the finished article are to be (in my mind) the only mentions of it.
last night i entered (successfully) for #launch48, or rather launch48.com, which is this weekend. i’m really scared that the snow will cause me problems getting there, but i can only hope for the best.
i’ve been brainstorming ideas, and have come up with an idea away from some of my favourite startup ideas that i accrued and collected during my bachelors. it’s an idea that’s definitely outside my comfort zone in terms of my knowledge of the product – women’s fashion, or more specifically shoes.
i don’t think that matters though. the key to my business model is delivery of the product, and i think it’s a powerful plan because it could be leveraged to market products other than shoes. i’m hoping that the folks at #launch48 will see the opportunity that this concept provides for the long term because it’s a business that could prosper and grow far beyond the weekend.
we shall see.
i’ve had a couple of successes with the inq1 phone today, which i’m going to go blog about over on my inq1 blog. i’ve not really launched that blog yet in the sense that this is the first public mention of it. i’m not sure if i ever will formally release the blog because i don’t want it to be the focus. i plan to write a great review on inq1 for thinkabouttech.com, so for the moment this post and a mention of the blog in the finished article are to be (in my mind) the only mentions of it.
having *.me is cool, apparently. i got this email today:
We have listed your site in our extensive dot.ME Directory, where you may view and compare other dot.me domains.
Linking back to us will help promote dot.me domains and will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Mark Kolb
@dot_me_websites
www.dotmewebsites.com
awesome. so there you go. get [whatever].me and you can be cool too.