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Fixing the “five-star” rating system

by Dirk April 28, 2010

I’ve long been a fan of the five-star rating system online: users are familiar with it, it is very straightforward, and in theory provides a nice gradation of results. In theory. Today I think my affinity for the five-star system has been permanently squelched. cnn.com ran a story today about the top 50 restaurants in [...]

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Group behaviour

by Dirk March 12, 2009

My buddy Lou tweeted into the ether a few minutes ago, trying to get an impromptu little meet-up of people who happen to be on the same flight as he, heading down to the South by Southwest conference. Assuming there is modest response, I can envision half a dozen or so design industry-related souls happily [...]

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Credit and reputation

by Dirk March 12, 2009

While my wading into Twitter has largely amounted to just keeping a single toe in the water – opening the client once or twice a day, glancing at it for a few seconds, and closing it again – just a moment ago I saw something that made me think of a bigger issue. I saw [...]

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Twitter: early returns

by Dirk February 27, 2009

I’m not a big fan, at least yet. There’s certainly potential: some of the people I’m following post interesting, thoughtful things. Some post the right amount of relevance and interest about their daily lives that I like it and don’t think its Spammy. Other people use it as this weird business/marketing megaphone – in a [...]

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To Tweet or not to Tweet?

by Dirk February 18, 2009

I’ve been aware of Twitter pretty much since it began. I signed up for an account (being in software, it is my Sworn Duty to sign up and check out Hot New Services to stay current), and watched it become a geek mainstay with some level of bemusement. At its most ridiculous level, I did [...]

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The virtue of this website

by Dirk January 8, 2008

Despite the fact that I do not regularly post here anymore, this website continues to be an amazingly effective mechanism for creating new relationships, and for forging closer relationships with people new and old. Over the past few years I’ve met multiple “long lost” first cousins, people who are interested in archival information about my [...]

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Facebook Follies

by Dirk August 23, 2007

I’m a passive user of Facebook, which is to say that I have an account, have spent 10 minutes or so filling out profile info, but otherwise only use it to accept Friend requests that other people make of me. So it was today that, for whatever reason, I ended up on my main Facebook [...]

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Design Futures

by Dirk August 23, 2006

Originally published atLukeW In July 2006, a group of designers with nearly 50 cumulative years of experience designing products for companies like Apple, eBay, Macromedia, Nike, Palm, and Yahoo got together to talk about the future of design. We weren’t looking to predict what’s next but instead to discuss the patterns and trends affecting the [...]

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