Month: October 2002

Digital Web Magazine – Keep It Simple: Client Centered Design. Quote: “Unfortunately there is no general rule for the task of keeping a client's expectations within reasonable limits. Some clients are easily convinced by someone who knows what he's talking about, while others will rigidly maintain their point of view, aided by their nephews who've… Continue reading Digital Web Magazine – Keep It Simple: Client Centered Design

Chicago Sun-Times Mentions RSS: RSS File Can Help Keep Your Surfing Up to Date “An RSS file is simply a text file located on a Web server and is openly readable by any app that knows its location. It contains a sophisticated database that summarizes a Web site's content. Usually, the file is created and… Continue reading Chicago Sun-Times Mentions RSS

Security Alert: eBay Prevents Musician from Selling Own CD-Rs “George Ziemann, an independent musician, made an album with his band and like many small operators, he then produced copies of the the album on CD-R and attempted to sell them on the Web. He listed copies on his own Web page, on MP3.COM, on garageband.com,… Continue reading Security Alert: eBay Prevents Musician from Selling Own CD-Rs

ICANN Nixes At-Large Reps. The organization that governs Internet conventions votes overwhelmingly to pass a reform package, eliminating five representatives in the process. By Steve Kettmann. [Wired News]

Measuring the Return on Knowledge Management. Andrew brought to my attention the LLRX article by Kingsley Martin, Justifying knowledge management ROI in law firms. James says on Column Two, that it's a “comprehensive article on measuring the return on KM” and is “serves as a model for other industries”. [ia/ – news for information architects]

I just got around to reading Jim McGee's article “Knowledge work as craft work” which is an excellent discussion of visibility in the knowledge management process. McGee gives a great example of how visibility of knowledge has gone away since the arrival of desktop computing. In the pre-PC age, paper documents and deliverables (and the… Continue reading “Knowledge work as craft work”

Top Ten Digital Photography Tips. You've heard this before: Digital cameras do all the work. You just push the button and great pictures magically appear… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

Andy Hertzfeld: “Vista is an experimental prototype whose purpose is to quickly explore various design and feature ideas for Chandler, our networked personal information manager.” [Scripting News]

Visual Studio Magazine ran an interview with Alan Cooper, author of About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum.  The interview focuses on the topic of software construction, which I've been pondering recently (see October 14).  I don't agree with everything that Cooper says in the article, but… Continue reading Visual Studio Magazine

Using PHP at Yahoo: Excellent presentation that clearly outlines why Yahoo has decided to use PHP over many of the other scripting languages available. This is great stuff. [Via rc3.org via Anil and Camworld]