Daniel Brent Patton

Product Content Strategy & UX Writing

On the Passing of Steve Jobs

I worry that with his passing too many people will want to turn him into some sort of mythical creature capable of no wrong. I suppose that beats worrying that no one will. Ultimately, the Steve Jobs story will be a complex and insightful one — recounted in...

Child “Ear”-ing in the Keitai Age

While some parents have a tough time navigating their cell phone for writing e-mails to their children, the children who grew up with cell phone will become parents themselves before long. Then, the cell phone will be used within families more commonly and frequently....

Fare and Ballast Reporting?

Edward Wasserman, of The Miami Herald, adds a chapter to the Big Blur saga. What’s news? What’s entertainment? Who’s being paid and how? I wonder increasingly: who’ll nod to the business realities driving this trend to murkiness? During Friends...