This is Jamie Quint's blog covering technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else interesting.
I attended the Edward Tufte conference last Friday in San Francisco and found it to be not merely entertaining, but an excellent learning experience as well. All conference attendees received his books (Student Conference Rate = $180, Cost of Book Set = $150, Actual Conference Cost $30!) which his talk was structured around. He managed […]
I’ve already talked about the film and music industry doing this, but now it seems that phone companies want to jump on the bandwagon too. TracPhone has claimed that by unlocking your cell phone for use on any compatible carrier you are a criminal who is hurting the poor and subsidizing terrorism. They claim that […]
I have been paying a lot more attention to design lately, and its interesting to see how the small things seem to make the biggest difference. Edward Tufte has a theory called “smallest effective difference” which talks about making visual distinctions small yet effective. I noticed a great example of this today in OS X.
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