Ross • 10th Jun 2010 • Thinking • apple, design, google, internet, tech, technology, web
Fear of Google’s knowledge about our every purchase, every web click, every move in the physical world was trumped by the public’s craving for information about anything, anywhere. It was an uneasy truce with the devil: give them your innermost secrets, and you can find anything your heart desires.
That’s from a great essay comparing Google to Apple.
Ross • 7th Oct 2009 • Living • design, internet, web design
It’s not 1998. So if you design websites for a living, how about promoting yourself neatly and succinctly, like this or this, not like that. Why do so many web design outfits have such utterly cruddy web presences. If they can’t make it work for themselves, what hope is there for their clients?