Dustin Curtis - Latest Comments

Re: You should follow me on twitter

Ahnnastaysia — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:08:56 -0000

I honestly have to wonder if the clickthrough rate changed simply because more people learned about your site. Maybe that's too simple but, it seems like it might have something to do with it... You never said how many on average, I.P.'s visited your site...

Re: A Tour of my Brain

Beatriz González Ortuño — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:12:59 -0000

thank you for sharing this amazing and didactic trip!
I completly enjoyed it as a neuropsychologist! I came to your blog because I was looking for Broca´s area, as is aphasiology my expertise...Congratulations from México city!

Re: Create the Filter | Dustin Curtis

Jon Guerrera — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:47:11 -0000

Well written article! I had no idea that the "siesta" could shave so much time off of your sleep requirements. Considering my body screams for 9.25 hours every night, I will make every attempt to do a "siesta" whenever possible.

I also hear that 20 minutes of meditation functions in the same way.

Great article!

Re: The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X

Interfolio — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:55:44 -0000

Oops, I didn't mean to post here.

Re: You should follow me on twitter

BoaterExam.com — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:59:57 -0000

It would be interesting to see what the click through rates are when the link is within a larger paragraph. ie: You Addendum paragraph... All I see is the link "here", so I need to read the entire paragraph to see where that link goes. Whereas if you had the entire sentence "follow me on twitter" linked, then the user automatically knows where that link is heading.

Re: The Death of Files

Tyler Hayes — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:29:00 -0000

As per Gruber today, Chris Clark wants a Services menu for the iPhone OS. This would alleviate a ton of the problems people seem to continually discuss on this post.

http://releasecandidateone....

Re: The Death of Files

Jonathan — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:25:59 -0000

Sorry Dustin, but your agument just doesn't sway me.

In app-centric world simplicity is achieved by limiting the user's range of options. For devices such as the iPhone or iPad, which are all about consuming content, this might be fine. But as soon as a user wants to do something more with their data (edit an image, print it, post it on a blog, email it, and so forth) the limitations of the app become all to apparent.

It sounds a lot like you are advocating vendor lock-in: files that only work in one context (application). That's something that makes me very uneasy, because I believe it entials an innevitable tradoff between simplicity and empowerment.

Re: Public Fried Chicken by Scott Banister

Theteardropcollector — Sun, 30 May 2010 09:31:19 -0000

I see portfolios with scroll-right layouts, and I find it off-putting, but I think it's even more disruptive when you're reading. Interesting. Do you do this often, or is this a test?

Re: Create the Filter | Dustin Curtis

Tyus — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:21:50 -0000

wow, good stuff. I don't know if I can do it but I may have to try. I love working so to be able to cut back on my sleep would be great. Maybe you could comment on how long it takes for these methods to kick in and your body adjusts.

Re: Hiring & The Sixth Sense of Expertise

seankelly — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:55:36 -0000

Always hire people WAY smarter than you are.

Re: The Clear War

caitlin — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:29:04 -0000

Is Kevin Mattice the American Airlines guy who you inadvertently got fired? His website is cool. I imagine Dustin felt bad for getting him fired and then helped him design his website. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm just so curious.

Re: Create the Filter | Dustin Curtis

AndrewNoNumbers — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:33:44 -0000

Well, I also go to bed at midnight and wake up at 6am yet I don't take any naps and I'm still healthy. =]

Re: Create the Filter | Dustin Curtis

AndrewNoNumbers — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:25:16 -0000

DAMN, this is the most fascinating thing I've read in a long time! If this really works, there could be so much work done in the world!

Re: The Death of Files

electricvishnu — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:57:50 -0000

but can we completely ignore the fact that this setup tends more towards the closed than an open system: i.e. my father asking "why can't i just go and grab the songs that i put on my ipod?
me asking "what does this mean in the context of DRM?"

i like where you're going with the idea, but shouldn't we question how it will impact openness of data as these paradigms shift?

Re: The Death of Files

Jimmy.G — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:51:13 -0000

Files = content. Folder = container.
Food = content. Fridge = container.
Photo = content. Album = container.
All one and the same, are they not?
Is it the death of files we are talking about? Or just alternative ways of accessing our content?

Re: Public Fried Chicken by Scott Banister

dcurtis — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:51:50 -0000

test

Re: The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X

Tim — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:40:27 -0000

No offence, but as the CEO munches his way through lunch over a delightful Coonawarra Shiraz, or perhaps something from Heathcote, I'll be he really gives a sh!t.

Oh wait. No he doesn't.

Crying about AA is like crying over spilt milk. They don't give a sh!t and its only through the apathy and ignorance of the masses that they survive.

Re: The Death of Files

Clemens Gleich — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:50:13 -0000

As many people pointed out: app-centric has its uses and its own problems. 200.000 apps? Mm-hm. How many of these are just duplicates of one and the same eBook? Death of files? I don't think so. More like the rise of intelligent data organisation.

Re: The Death of Files

lcornea — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:14:02 -0000

Because it is insulated from the user, dose not mean that they are not there, and personally i think that people will always want to be able to control where the information is on their computers, so beginners no files, advanced people have files(sounds like Windows XP).

Besides a file is a block of information, no matter how you change the system, the information will be stored in blocks to witch people will refer to as files.

Files will not die because they are a concept, and the fact that most of the population will not know about them will not change anything. If 99% of the population dose not know about the concept of session fraud, that dose not mean that it is not there, it just means that they don't know about it.

Re: The Death of Files

Paweł W — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:51:46 -0000

I also percieve things in my computer as task. But music contains lyrics and notes.. so it could be sound, image and text in one time. I think that concept of Tags is the closest to real life.

Re: The Death of Files

senshikaze — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:49:37 -0000

This sounds great and all, but this is completely the wrong way to go. Locking files into a program doesn't help the user at all. What happens if 5 years later your Some.app doesn't work with Iphone Mark 8, or whatever? You lose your files. you lose you photos, your documents, everything. the difference between a radio and my pc is that the radio just translates outside forces into music, it doesn't "store" anything. It breaks, you can get a replacement for cheap. if your iphone takes a dive you are screwed(of course, hopefully you have backed it up, but we all know users generally don't).
If my pc is hosed, I can pop out the HDD and move my files at will. No problems. just something to think about.

Re: The Death of Files

GuyverXT9 — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:09:55 -0000

Whoops... quite a reaction...

Re: The Death of Files

yurash — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:05:16 -0000

Firstly, this is completely not "a new model for organizing things on computers". This model was already used many years ago in Palm OS. And this OS is dead now - because of this hard-to-use application databases instead of usual files, too. In Windows Mobile and Vista there are some features in this direction, but they are fortunately easily could be bypassed.

Second, it actually does NOT "much more closely emulates the way people do things in the real world". When I want to listen to music, I should find this music - on some CD, flash disk, computer etc. And I want to put this music in any player I want - music center, PC, laptop or my car player. It would be terrible if my favourite CD gets stuck in some concrete device. And also photos, videos etc - I want to have them and look at in any place, not just in any one viewer. When I want to eat, I have to get some food - this is the point! - it does not matter is it stored in my refrigerator or brought by some delivery service.

I need a thing, I don't need a "service". Give me what I need and get out: I myself know what to do with this thing, and I will use the tool I want, one today and other tomorrow. Files are much more appropriate for my model. So I hate all this ugly interfaces that robs me of my own things.

So, all this iPhone inventions are good only maybe for some "casual computer users", but not for all literate people...

Re: The Death of Files

Harry Mueller — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:05:27 -0000

It's funny - Apple (among others) invented "document centric computing": Place your "things" on a worktop and "just use them". When the context menu came, this was really what everyone expects: "Do something with this" ... And now we go (back?!) to "you must know your process(or)"???

Re: The Death of Files

asterix — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:31:16 -0000

Ok, but what's the next big idea for visual organizing data?