editor – Ewan Spence

Just hide the features, don’t strip them out

Posted on April 4, 2013April 4, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Nicole Simon on the loss of ‘expert’ mode: What happened to proper tools in the expert mode and ‘simplified interfaces’ as defaults? I am all for dumbing down interfaces for helping people get a grasp on them (think duplos in little kids hands versus legos) but why on earth do we have left out the expert modes? The lego mindstorm stuff which actually some people know how to use and work with because they are not toddlers anymore? Google’s new compose window goes along the same lines. “People are confused how to do mail, so we want to ‘subtlety encourage

The AP on how to handle a fast moving news story

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Ewan Spence

“We both agreed, again like [Saturday] night, with something this high stakes we would rather be behind and be right than be ahead and be wrong,” Anthony said. In this case it was on the death of Joe Paterno, but can we have more of this, and less of “first!” please?

Time for AOL to show their hand over TechCrunch

Posted on September 2, 2011September 2, 2011 by Ewan Spence

There’s going to be lots of suppressing and covering fire over Michael Arrington’s new investment fun, but I’m watching AOL to see who’s chosen as the new TechCrunch editor. Whether they go for an AOL’er to take the chair, an internal promotion, or poach someone from outside, that’s going to tell us a lot about the upcoming direction of one of the tent pole technology sites on the internet.