Recent Links: January 11 to January 14

Amy Hoy's slide deck for her presentation "User Experience, pain-free".

"I offer a brief list of ways I’ve learned to improve my writing over the past year. "

"The SXSW Interactive Hub is your community space to discuss specific panels and events, rant about tech-related issues, wax philosophic, hookup with friends and talk about where to get some good BBQ.Whether or not you have already registered to attend SXSW, you are invited to help guide and develop this blog according to your needs and desires. "

"This November, the President, Vice President, one third of the Senate, and the entire House are up for election. Between now and then, we’ll see dozens of debates, thousands of ads, and hear mixed messages from various groups, pundits, candidates, their former co-workers, their third grade teachers, former lovers, and anyone else who can be pulled out of the woodwork to support or tear down a politician. So I figure this is a good time to review the 7 Common Propaganda Devices that were identified by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA) way back in 1937 and see if we can find them in use today."

BIL is...an open, self-organizing, and emergent science and technology conference.to TED, what BarCamp is to FooCamp.free for everyone.

Nicholas Felton's personal Annual Report for 2007.

Easy OpenID from your phone.Just:1. follow twauth on twitter 2. use http://twauth.ianloic.com/yourtwittername as your OpenID identity.We'll send you a direct message to verify who you are when you try to log in.

"Shelf is an app for MacOS that looks at the current foreground application, and tries to figure out if what you’re looking at corresponds to a person in your Address Book. Then it’ll tell you things about them."