http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/ is a weblog by Jack Shedd, a designer and a developer in the process of moving to Chicago, IL. Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:12:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-203 MicroFeed | Pasquale D'Silva Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:39:12 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-203 <p>[...] love shar­ing them.  Unfor­tu­nately, lots of other peo­ple love to do that as well, and it fills their blogs with junk. Reg­u­lar entries take a bit of thought, and hav­ing to cre­ate one each time some­thing is [...]</p> […] love shar­ing them.  Unfor­tu­nately, lots of other peo­ple love to do that as well, and it fills their blogs with junk. Reg­u­lar entries take a bit of thought, and hav­ing to cre­ate one each time some­thing is […]

]]> http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Design Intellection Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:47:03 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-170 <p>[...] Don't assume visitors will find your best content, lead them to it.Further reading:On clutter: http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/On findability: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/findabilityorphan Posted on July 16, [...]</p> […] Don’t assume visitors will find your best content, lead them to it.Further reading:On clutter: http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/On findability: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/findabilityorphan Posted on July 16, […]

]]> http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Pasquale D’Silva Interview | Inspiredology Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:13:43 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-167 <p>[...] to be scalable. We’ll hopefully see a cleaner web, without the need for meaningless fluff and debris to dress up [...]</p> […] to be scalable. We’ll hopefully see a cleaner web, without the need for meaningless fluff and debris to dress up […]

]]> http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-155 darkmotion - Animation & Illustration » Entry » What an Informative Web! Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:08:01 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-155 <p>[...] for large dollar corporations  and becoming less of a useful information architecture. We slap debris all over the place to force our ‘web presence’  down each other’s throats.  [...]</p> […] for large dollar corporations  and becoming less of a useful information architecture. We slap debris all over the place to force our ‘web presence’  down each other’s throats.  […]

]]> http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-116 How NOT to design | darkmotion Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:46:08 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-116 <p>[...] Tacking on every single profile link is going to make people want to leave your site, giving traffic to the others. Read this. [...]</p> […] Tacking on every single profile link is going to make people want to leave your site, giving traffic to the others. Read this. […]

]]> http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Food For Thought Links « Tape Noise Diary Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:34:34 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-50 <p>[...] Debris [...]</p> […] Debris […]

]]> http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-41 AttentionMax » Blog Archive » Social Media Debris Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:16:22 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-41 <p>[...] And go read Jacks’ full post here. [...]</p> […] And go read Jacks’ full post here. […]

]]> http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Magnetbox - links for 2008-07-08 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:31:02 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-35 <p>[...] Big Contrarian ? Debris. At some point, we just started throwing shit in. So many sites these days are filled with what can only be called “debris”. Useless remnants of other sites: things of no real use, yet there anyway. (tags: web design weblog usability) [...]</p> […] Big Contrarian ? Debris. At some point, we just started throwing shit in. So many sites these days are filled with what can only be called “debris”. Useless remnants of other sites: things of no real use, yet there anyway. (tags: web design weblog usability) […]

]]> http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Labnotes » Removing unnecessaries Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:11:49 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-27 <p>[...] Shedd writes an excellent blog, (Via John Gruber), and once again brings the point of unnecessary debris: So many sites these days are filled with what can only be called “debris”. Useless remnants of [...]</p> […] Shedd writes an excellent blog, (Via John Gruber), and once again brings the point of unnecessary debris: So many sites these days are filled with what can only be called “debris”. Useless remnants of […]

]]> http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/06/27/debris/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Joshua Jenkins | I agree on debris. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:06:42 +0000 http://www.bigcontrarian.com/?p=243#comment-24 <p>[...] has quickly become one of my new favorite sites to check out. A recent post on what he's calling debris struck me as something I would like to say but am not nearly eloquent enough to get out [...]</p> […] has quickly become one of my new favorite sites to check out. A recent post on what he’s calling debris struck me as something I would like to say but am not nearly eloquent enough to get out […]

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