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I can't wait for angry ranting to go out of fashion.

• henning 18y ago
  For now, it's an easy way to get traffic. People like it when you're willing to call it like you see it and skewer the mediocre things that surround us. As an alternative, what's a forceful way to critique the central problem Zed discusses in his rant, namely the practice of blindly copying a (questionable) UI metaphor from another application category, email, without resorting to ranting? In general, lengthy writing on the web works best when you have a story with a conflict and resolution -- Zed is frustrated by all the products he encounters, and he finally finds one that matches what he wants. Joel Spolsky uses this heavily. The way to promote a product these days, I guess, is to make the story about you, the potential customer, who has a problem the product solves (hooray!). An angry rant fits into that well enough that it's a tempting, easy route.
• pchristensen 18y ago
  Do you have a comfortable chair and an umbrella drink?
• icey 18y ago
  Since the day man discovered how to string the letters "F, U, C and K" together to form a word, angry ranting has been in fashion. Historical trends are against you here, I'm afraid.
• deleted 18y ago
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• jazj 18y ago
  u mad? Respond to the content, not the form.