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"You must think...in states — Forget the site or app, forget the screen [...] don't worry about transitions, for example, just limit yourself to states where the user is most likely to interact with the application." [Depends on purpose of documentation
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"I'm going to frame these as advice, but everyone should remember Buchheit's Law: "Advice = Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization""
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"draw on many other applications, devices, and services from the cutting edge of personal informatics, to identify patterns and principles that work for power-users and newbies alike"
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"senses which station the user just passed through and over time a permanent, ink-based map of the stations they have visited begins to emerge on their Oyster Card holder"
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"To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions."
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Great set of growing data sources on Show Us a Better Way, a great site (though cryptically named) for more publicly opening up data.
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Some good ideas. Links to Neighbourhood teams good, but Crimestoppers would need to be there too.
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Expect to see this page get bigger this year :)
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Instead of US-style sentencing grids, PRT recommends a NZ-style commission "Providing guidance to sentencers; Gathering and providing information and statistics for monitoring, planning and policy development; and Community engagement".
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Roo at OpenTech. Seem to recall its predecessors Notcon etc as interesting but blunt to the point of anti-social.
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Will make me use twitter properly, once Biddulph has magicked the natural language even more. Twitter, if only it worked consistently, is a good ui for vt.
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Some years ago I helped try start an experiment in direct democracy called Your Party. People trusted themselves to evalute a policy decision with proper and careful consideration, but not anyone else to do similarly. Thus it failed.
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"if you have a friendly interviewer, transcriber, editor and tough-love fellow traveler, then talking into a voice recorder may be a way for you to work through a bout of writer’s block too"
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Battersea as a Northern Line extension, one station from Kennington? (On the other hand, Battersea is cursed as a development.)
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London as Tokyo. See also: http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2006/04/out_of_place_mi.html
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