How not to provide feedback

Justin Williams on how you shouldn’t be a dick just because you’re on the Internet, or how not to provide feedback to just about anyone who has poured in heart and soul into their work:

Here is a tip for all the non-developers out there. When you email your favorite developer with a feature request or bug report never, ever, ever use the word useless to describe their product. Useless is kryptonite to developers and puts us on the defensive instantly…

The Internet makes it really easy to be a jerk to someone because you don’t have to insult their product to their face and can instead shoot it off to an email address in the sky without any idea or care about who is on the other end.

Posting to Twitter is like throwing valuable things into a junk drawer…

Justin Williams on the Twitter’s Great Migration:

Hopefully those new product offerings include giving me full access to the 15,290 tweets I have written since joining the service five years ago. That data silo is one of the major reasons I am so gunshy of posting content I care about to Twitter anymore. At least with this site, I know I can instantly access everything I’ve written.

I’ve always wondered why nobody else is complaining that it’s just so damn difficult to find anything more than a day old in Twitter.

Bragging about stuff that doesn’t matter

Joshua Topolsky for Engadget:

In a post-PC world, the experience of the product is central and significant above all else. It’s not the RAM or CPU speed, screen resolution or number of ports which dictate whether a product is valuable; it becomes purely about the experience of using the device.

Ever notice it’s always the anti-Apple and pro-Samsung/HTC/Android/Nokia friends always bragging about RAM, CPU, etc? Stuff that don’t matter, basically.