Cartoons - ReadWrite http://readwrite.com en Copyright 2012 SAY Media, Inc. readwriteweb@gmail.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:00:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Cartoon: Okay, So One iPhone Prediction Was A Little Off]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/09/13/cartoon-okay-so-one-iphone-prediction-was-a-little-off http://readwrite.com/2012/09/13/cartoon-okay-so-one-iphone-prediction-was-a-little-off Cartoons Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: Runtime Error]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/09/07/cartoon-runtime-error http://readwrite.com/2012/09/07/cartoon-runtime-error Cartoons Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: Lights, Cameras... User Testing!]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/08/30/cartoon-lights-cameras-user-testing http://readwrite.com/2012/08/30/cartoon-lights-cameras-user-testing Cartoons Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: Mars Needs Megapixels!]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/08/24/cartoon-mars-needs-megapixels http://readwrite.com/2012/08/24/cartoon-mars-needs-megapixels Cartoons Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: Certified!]]>  
]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/08/10/cartoon-certified http://readwrite.com/2012/08/10/cartoon-certified Cartoons Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:43:47 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: The iPad Is Ready for Working by Hand]]>

A few months ago, Jon Mitchell wrote a great piece that stirred up a lot of discussion about the viability of creating art on tablets with your hands. Although I commented at the time, I've finally drawn a more complete response.

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/08/01/cartoon-the-ipad-is-ready-for-working-by-hand http://readwrite.com/2012/08/01/cartoon-the-ipad-is-ready-for-working-by-hand Cartoons Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[[Cartoon] Last Place in the Hacker Olympics ]]> Bad software developers, like bad athletes, have bad habits. And that can be a whole lot of bad. Do you copy and paste someone else’s code into your designs? Or maybe you spend all night debugging bad code that should have been more carefully written in the first place. The cartoon below, courtesy of the software analysis firm CAST, campares athletes who finish last with developers who can't resist a shortcut to failure. 

]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/07/25/cartoon-last-place-in-the-hacker-olympics http://readwrite.com/2012/07/25/cartoon-last-place-in-the-hacker-olympics Cartoons Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:30:00 -0700 Dan Rowinski <![CDATA[Cartoon: A Thief in the Night ]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/07/18/cartoon-a-thief-in-the-night http://readwrite.com/2012/07/18/cartoon-a-thief-in-the-night Cartoons Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: A Need-to-Know Basis]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/07/12/cartoon-a-need-to-know-basis http://readwrite.com/2012/07/12/cartoon-a-need-to-know-basis Cartoons Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:30:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: "Hello World" Problems]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/07/04/cartoon-hello-world-problems http://readwrite.com/2012/07/04/cartoon-hello-world-problems Cartoons Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: Consulting Secrets REVEALED!]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/06/27/cartoon-consulting-secrets-revealed http://readwrite.com/2012/06/27/cartoon-consulting-secrets-revealed Cartoons Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: This Family Has Certain Standards]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/06/20/cartoon-this-family-has-certain-standards http://readwrite.com/2012/06/20/cartoon-this-family-has-certain-standards Cartoons Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: For Instance, It Makes You Multitask]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/06/13/cartoon-for-instance-it-makes-you-multitask http://readwrite.com/2012/06/13/cartoon-for-instance-it-makes-you-multitask Cartoons Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[We Are All Webmakers Now]]>


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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/06/05/we-are-all-webmakers-now http://readwrite.com/2012/06/05/we-are-all-webmakers-now Cartoons Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:30:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: ROTF in Melancholy Despair]]>


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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/05/27/cartoon-rotf-in-melancholy-despair http://readwrite.com/2012/05/27/cartoon-rotf-in-melancholy-despair Cartoons Sun, 27 May 2012 12:20:39 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: Why Social Media Matters for Your Customers ]]> It is time for another look at enterprise IT from our friends Chief and Chuck. If your management still thinks Facebook and Twitter are fads, then perhaps this cartoon will hit home. After all, if we could only just not be bothered all the time from our customers when they have problems, right? One way is to just ignore them, and the message from this cartoon is clear: You do so at your own peril.

We've written many articles on the need for using social media to engage your customers, including the analysis of Oracle's acquisition of Vitrue earlier this week and this infographic we linked to last year that shows customers want to use social media for support. Maybe it is time you re-examined your own policies to make these tools both easier and more popular in your enterprise.

CA Technologies' CHIEF & CHUCK is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at http://www.ca.com/cdit.

]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/05/24/cartoon-why-social-media-matters-for-your-customers http://readwrite.com/2012/05/24/cartoon-why-social-media-matters-for-your-customers Cartoons Thu, 24 May 2012 10:00:00 -0700 David Strom <![CDATA[Cartoon: Hold Your Horses There, Zuckerberg]]>


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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/05/20/cartoon-hold-your-horses-there-zuckerberg http://readwrite.com/2012/05/20/cartoon-hold-your-horses-there-zuckerberg Cartoons Sun, 20 May 2012 11:00:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: Pinterest for Dummies]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/04/29/cartoon-pinterest-for-dummies http://readwrite.com/2012/04/29/cartoon-pinterest-for-dummies Cartoons Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:01:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: That's Your Strategy?]]>

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/04/15/cartoon_thats_your_strategy http://readwrite.com/2012/04/15/cartoon_thats_your_strategy Cartoons Sun, 15 Apr 2012 04:02:00 -0700 Rob Cottingham <![CDATA[Cartoon: Notification Center]]> I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point my laptop and smartphone stopped being places of work, creativity, conversation and leisure, and started being the dashboard of a highly-strung car.

Suddenly, I'm surrounded by notifications. Three new email messages. Five things just happened on Facebook. Four people have mentioned, DM'd or retweeted me on twitter. Six Google+ alerts. LinkedIn on the iPhone now feels the need to notify me that I can always check it to see what my contacts are up to. (That has to be the ultimate meta-reminder: an app reminding you that it still exists.)

And if I still don't feel like I have the pulse of my system at my fingertips, I can install a shareware utility to notify me of all sorts of involuntary muscle movements on the part of my operating system and applications: "Backup complete." "Word just updated itself." "Photoshop just completed peristalsis."

And it's all too much. Because every one of those notifications conveys the same red-badged "deal-with-me-NOW" sense of extreme urgency, whether it's a DM that my house is on fire and I should do something about it, or the announcement of the new Rabid Parakeet in Angry Birds. When everything's important, nothing's important.

The first few times I experienced notifications, I felt like the Terminator, with that cool heads-up display constantly alerting me to my surroundings, feeding me tactical data. After a while, though, it just feels like being 10 years old in the back seat with a pesky sibling who keeps poking you in the side.

Besides, once I have badges on my iPhone apps with numbers like "62" on them, the game is lost anyway, and all that those notifications are doing is rubbing salt into the wound.

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]]> http://readwrite.com/2012/03/25/cartoon_notification_center http://readwrite.com/2012/03/25/cartoon_notification_center Cartoons Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:00:24 -0700 Rob Cottingham