Links published on June 5, 2008

7 links published on this date. See also: all links published in June 2008, latest links.

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Eric has turned out an awfully useful-looking little app, and it follows a design aesthetic that I very much like :)

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Building a local news site from scratch

We have a paper that recently went from weekly print editions to online-only. Should be interesting to see how it plays out.

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Administrative Debris

Thinking about doing something very similar here in the near future.

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KDE 4 UI critique

The new KDE launcher is a gynecologist interface: There you are, sitting in front of a 20” screen, but the programmer has dictated that you have to do everything by poking around in a small box.

This phrase is an instant classic.

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Facebook Apps: The Facebook Trap

It might make a lot of sense to leverage social networking applications for business purposes, but it definitely doesn’t make a lot of sense to do so in a way that locks you into any one particular social network.

Old, but bears repeating in this modern age.

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Do you own trees?

Many businesses act as if they have a stake in their suppliers and other vendors. Instead of scaling the part of their business that can move quickly and well, they defend the part they don’t even own.

Listen to this man. Please.

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See No Evil: How Internet Filters Affect the Search for Online Health Information

As filters are set at higher levels they block access to a substantial amount of health information, with only a minimal increase in blocked pornographic content.

Which comes as a surprise to absolutely no one who actually knows how these things work.

danah boyd

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Links published on June 8, 2008

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