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Joel Spolsky

Apple Fonts Are Target; Microsoft Fonts Are Walmart

Where does your brand fall on the practicality vs. style spectrum?

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Tagging Scheme For Organizing Feeds In Google Reader

Google Reader is the primary tool I use to read blogs. Here is how I use tags to organize the feeds I’m following.

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What we’re reading: Joel Spolsky’s User Interface Design for Programmers

A user will stop and ponder each option presented to him wondering “What is this? Do I need this?” And in that split-second, your offer can lose its grip on that user’s attention.

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Usability Standing On One Foot

Recommended for your web developers: Joel Spolsky’s little book on usability, “User Interface Design for Programmers.”

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Unpurple Cows: On Paying For Posts, For Links, For Buzz

Call me old fashioned, but I agree with Godin’s purple cow thesis: the right way to capture attention, mindshare, word-of-mouth, buzz, and links is by having a remarkable product or service.

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What We’re Reading: IT

I’m a big fan of scattering great books around the office. It’s a cheap way to circulate fantastic ideas. Here are three outstanding books to toss into the IT bat-cave: Software Engineering For Internet Applications, Joel on Software, and Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age.

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Bureaucratic Tales from Yahoo, Microsoft

Bureaucracy: Stewart Butterfield on Yahoo, Moishe Lettvin on Microsoft

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Blogetiquette

Two tidbits of wisdom from A-list bloggers.

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  • Cory Grassell: What are your thoughts on stats that suggest consumers are more apt to click on organic search results than PPC results? As a...
  • George Michie: Kevin, Marc, thanks for your comments. Help is coming, but not the solution. There are a number of instances when the CTR on the...
  • Marc Adelman: George, You have been an advocate of “the advanced control option” for years now. Depressing right YEARS! Eh…listen...
  • Kevin Hill: Is what they really need is a fourth match type. Here’s google’s help documentation on broad match: This is the default...
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  • George Michie: Melissa, you’re right, it’s always happened to varying degrees, particularly since the advent of extended broad match....

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