Psychological research has proven again and again that anonymity increases unethical behavior.
Tag Archives: internet
The Wilderness Downtown
I’ve never had so much fun with the Internet as The Wilderness Downtown.
Decisions cost time and distract people from their own tasks.
Twitter Etiquette
If you use Twitter, you should read this: Red Sweater Blog – Elements Of Twitter Style
Map of the Internet
…we noticed that users are always on specific missions when they come to sites. With only one exception, users never visit a site “just to see what it has.” (The one exception? Web designers.)
That’s me. So true. Read more
Single Serving Sites
Just what I’ve been waiting for. Fantastic.
The other day I called up a web-based software company that provides reusable content for one of my clients sites. I asked them why a certain page was showing a login instead of the content. As they tried to track down the problem, the browser that I was using came up, and they said “You have to use IE, Firefox is not supported.” Even though that had nothing to do with the issues I was encountering, and the site works perfectly well in Firefox, they were only willing to help me if I was using the proper browser.
Lame, clearly. When did the business world become so homogenized.
Classic Links
I saw a couple old links today and they made me laugh again. And so I post them here for you to laugh too. Well, if you are a geek or you know me, maybe you’ll laugh.