July 2009
39 posts
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bitquabit - The One in Which I Call Out Hacker... →
The next time you see an application you like, think very long and hard about all the user-oriented details that went into making it a pleasure to use, before decrying how you could trivially reimplement the entire damn thing in a weekend. Nine times out of ten, when you think an application was ridiculously easy to implement, you’re completely missing the user side of the story.
New York Times Considers Charging $5 Per Month For... →
In 2007, the New York Times ended a two-year experiment of charging users for some opinion and editorial content. At its peak, 200,000 users paid for the service, called Times Select, and it generated $10 million a year in revenue.
Charging a monthly subscription is absolutely necessary. Even with the amount of traffic NYT gets, $5 CPM ain’t gonna cut it. I’m surprised it...
Complex Blog » A History of Rappers Finding... →
I was pleasantly surprised to find Doug E. Fresh as a member of the Church of Scientology.
@font-face: The Potential of Web Typography →
Nice demo page, works great in FF 3.5 and Safari 4