Sink design: commom ux failure
The faucet is often too close to the back of the basin, causing water to go everywhere. The basin is beautiful and large, but the position of the faucet renders it significantly less useful.
Hyperlinking in Canadian journalism (Case study, IPBES report)
If news orgs are serious about being good partners in mitigating misinformation, they need to link…
Style guides, notes on “jihad”
https://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-islamophobia-edition/ Guardian Reuters
Trudi Lynn Smith is the best
Sunday was coffee with a luminous being studying to be an even more powerful jedi. Art…
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…
Martin Speckter, type design, and the interrobang
99% Invisible did an episode on the interrobang recently. I was interested to learn that early…
The dominant press is a giant inertia machine
But here’s an old idea: what if dominant journalism, by and large and in the long…
Journalism is the business of influence
Good journalists do what they do because they care. They have interests. The organizations that employ…
How to stop increasing the reach and impact of hate (and misinformation) on Twitter
Some thoughts on how not to amplify hate accounts on Twitter.