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The Rise of the Mobile-Only User – Karen McGrane – Harvard Business Review Mobile-only users aren’t some strange new breed of customer, signaling their desire for different messages, content, and services through their choice of screen size and form factor. They’re just your customer. You can and should speak to them in same way you […]

How to design a responsive HTML email | Webdesigner Depot Guide to creating a responsive HTML email

The thing and the whole of the thing: on DRM in HTML | as days pass by Stuart Langridge on DRM in HTML. (via Jeremy Keith)

The Space Between the Notes | Jason Santa Maria Jason Santa Maria, looking forward to the expected announcement of iOS 7 next week, discusses skeuomorphism and flat design. Instead, skeuomorphism is a mode of design and a metaphor for function. It’s a spectrum, not a binary between being either “skeuomorphic” or “not skeuomorphic.” This is […]

First Wave at Omaha Beach – S. L. A. Marshall S. L. A. Marshall was a combat historian during World War II. This essay is taken from his notes of the Normandy invasion: Unlike what happens to other great battles, the passing of the years and the retelling of the story have softened the horror […]

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction […]

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: […]

The White House is defending the practice of gathering telephone records from American citizens while neither confirming nor denying a report that the National Security Agency is collecting records from Verizon customers. NBC File under newspeak.

cameronmoll: Kelly Sutton: Launches … are a poor representation of how great software today is built. It’s a holdover from the days of boxed software, where supply chains had to be managed and masters golded. The same that is true then is still true now: great software is the result of continuous refinement. The only […]

Deep dive into the murky waters of script loading – HTML5 Rocks Jake Archibald explores the arcane world of script loading and execution

It’s not that a G rating gets in the way of making money. Pixar-Disney has figured out the formula. They’ve had the top-ranked G-rated film every year but one in the past decade — from Ratatouille and Wall-E to The Princess and the Frog and Tangled. But other studios aiming at kids’ audiences have done […]