Month: May 2002

Kingtinued: The Greatest Elvis Songs You've Never Heard “Over two hours of music on 2-full length CDs! Check out all these top hits… done Elvis style!: Disc One La Vida Loca Tears in Heaven Smooth Jump Jive and Wail Graceland England's Rose (Memorial to Princess Diana) How Do I Live Can't Get Enough of Your… Continue reading Kingtinued: The Greatest Elvis Songs You've Never Heard

Power Naps Boost Work Performance “Taking a 'power nap' during the working day may well help us perform better, suggests new research. Scientists found that when volunteers slept 60 minutes midway through a series of gruelling tests, their performance dramatically improved compared to their wakeful counterparts.” [New Scientist] [The Shifted Librarian]

“Borders to Let Publishers Pay to Manage Its Categories “Publisher's Weekly Daily earlier this week reported that 'Borders will divide its book inventory into 250 categories and invite publishers to co-manage, or 'captain' the category. The captain will 'influence' Borders' buying decisions, including which titles, the number to be bought, and how the books get… Continue reading Borders to Let Publishers Pay to Manage Its Categories

“Washington Post: Visions Of a Wild and Wireless Future. To get a few clues as to what may come, I went out this week to a little brick office park in Reston to talk with Kahn, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols, the language that is the foundation of the Internet.” [Tomalak's Realm via The Shifted… Continue reading Visions Of a Wild and Wireless Future

Interview with the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf. In the end, what I think set PHP apart in the early days, and still does today, is that it always tries to find the shortest path to solving the web problem. It does not try to be a general-purpose scripting language and anybody looking to solve… Continue reading Interview with the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf

A List Apart: Simple Content Management. The simple content management tool described in A List Apart this week looks like a mixture of Wiki and Bento. [More Like This WebLog]

School Blogs.  Marcus Mauller.  Why doesn't each student get an iPod or equivalent to store all their work, and more importantly Radio?  That would allow students to roam with their published work, personal music, and docs etc from shared computer to shared computer.  A storage device is less expensive and more robust than a laptop, particularly for… Continue reading School Blogs

Cooper Interaction Design: Don't get burned by bad mapping. You may be surprised to learn that your digital products may suffer from the same fundamental problem that makes these stoves annoying and counterintuitive. The problem with these stoves is poor or unnatural mapping. [Tomalak's Realm]

Mark Hurst: Managing Incoming E-mail: What Every User Needs to Know “Incoming e-mail, if not managed properly, can become a significant drain on productivity. As users become distracted by messages piling up, they are more likely to lose track of important messages and fall further behind in their work. An inbox full of dozens or… Continue reading Managing Incoming E-mail: What Every User Needs to Know

Co-Creation is the future. Though not strictly ia-related, this is a pretty important concept that successful IA can't do without. Strategy+Business magazine has an article explaining in depth the principles behind consumer-created value, and how the Internet has rendered obsolete the old corporate mentality of not having to deal with the consumer. “Consumers appreciate and… Continue reading Co-Creation is the future