Boxes and Arrows: Defining Information Architecture Deliverables – WebmasterBase.com. Quote: “One of the hottest topics these days in Information Architecture circles is documentation. This is probably partly because the IA's role is so ill defined. Our jobs sit perched between engineering and graphic design: go too far in one direction, we're doing the coding, go [...]

A few comments about John Robb's liking of digital dashboards. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]

PARC Solutions: Enhanced Thumbnails. Enhanced Thumbnails is a proprietary visualization technique that makes it easier to find relevant content quickly within documents and document collections… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

'The Great Tax Wars': Birth, Death and the Other One. Steven R. Weisman has reconstructed the largely forgotten history of the progressive income tax, which only came into existence in the modern era. By Robert J. Samuelson. [New York Times: Books]

Jevon MacDonald has developed a digital dashboard mock-up that he likes. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Newsday (LI New York) – Now They Check the Books You Read. The Bush administration's reliance on acronyms with public-relations punch was apparent as early as last October when, still reeling from the events of Sept. 11, it proposed and Congress swiftly passed the USA Patriot Act (“The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate [...]

Orlando Sentinel: “After investing $273 million, NASA is canceling a cutting-edge launch-control computer system for the space shuttle that is over budget, behind schedule and too expensive to operate.” (A few paragraphs later) “The CLCS program began in 1997 as an effort to upgrade KSC's 1970s-vintage system.” Here's my question. In the 1970s, computers didn't [...]

“Rajesh has a mock-up of a digital dashboard available.  You can see where this is going.  A portal of one.  All data on the desktop.  Simple, easy to customize, and powerful.” [John Robb's Radio Weblog] Excellent! I've needed a mock-up of a digital dashboard in order to illustrate some of my ideas for the SLS [...]

On Building Software Product Sites. Since I’ve been working on the website for NetNewsWire Lite (soon to go 1.0), I’ve been thinking about how to build sites for software products. My current thinking—which may be completely off the wall, thoroughly nuts—I’ve written up in On Building Software Product Sites. [inessential.com]

Why I develop for Mac OS X. The other day, Joel Spolsky wrote about the economics of developing for Macintosh. I don’t think Joel is wrong about anything he says. It’s true, for instance, that “if your Windows product appeals to 1 in 100 Windows users, you have to appeal to 25 in 100 Mac [...]