To start with, content is becoming increasingly resource-intensive. This has a lot to do with the growing importance of video, but a similar trend can be observed among websites. The size of the average web page (defined as the average page size of the 500,000 most popular domains) increased from 0.45 megabytes (MB) in 2010 to 1.7 megabytes in June... See more
[...] it comes down to, you're not going to change people's diets. You're not going to change people's food preferences, not on any reasonable time scale. It's been tried a million times. Never works. And that meant that it's a technology problem. The way to solve the problem is to make it a losing proposition to be using this technology to produce... See more
The name infinite canvas, whether that's a category or component. And it's one that I have some mixed feelings about. Because, on one hand, Mark uses the term multimedia canvas. More commonly, we called Muse a spatial canvas, in kind of 1.0 positioning. And I also like the term open canvas — we actually do use that a bit on our web site, talking ab... See more
Sometimes you don’t want a website that you’ll have to maintain. You have other things to do. Why not consider your website a beautiful rock with a unique shape which you spent hours finding, only to throw it into the water until it hits the ocean floor? You will never know when it hits the floor, and you won’t care.
Information will not be pushed to the user unless they intentionally ask for it. Mercury’s intention-as-context architecture vaccinates the user against the unintentional consumption of information.
The irony here is that to be technological is to be profoundly human. Humanity controls its fate by using tools and materials to survive and to self-realize. The human species developed by gradually accumulating complex, adaptive technologies passed on through cultural transmission, giving us essential tools. Not only does human life and survival d... See more
You can tune an ITE to be exactly what you need it to be for particular kinds of knowledge work. With a few different plugins, templates, and automations, one ITE can be transformed into many different specialized tools.