Looking for pricing guidelines and salary surveys? – There are a couple good places to look for guides on how to price your work and yourself. People ask for this all the time and I thought it would be worth having the links here. (Thanks JD) http://www.gag.org/pegs/http://www.emediastaffing.com/html/salary_guide.html [Matt Brown's Radio Weblog]
Month: October 2002
DonnaM's blog
DonnaM's blog. Donna Maurer, and IA from down under, has started an interesting blog where she is capturing thoughts that occur to her as she works through IA, interaction design, and usability problems on the job. I find it can be helpful to remember what I've been thinking while trying to solve problems on a… Continue reading DonnaM's blog
The difficulty of categorization
The difficulty of categorization. Philip C. Murray's KM Connection article, The difficulty of categorization discusses implications of using categorization in the enterprise. In it he, he cite's Bella Hass Weinberg's 1996 article from the ASIS Conference Proceedings, Complexity In Indexing Systems — Abandonment And Failure: Implications For Organizing The Internet, to bring up the issue… Continue reading The difficulty of categorization
Exchanging Exchange
Exchanging Exchange. Microsoft to detail new Exchange, Outlook “ The new version of Exchange, which handles e-mail, calendars and contact lists, will be released in mid-2003. It is the company's first major update to the product since releasing Exchange 2000 nearly two years ago. In the $1.6 billion e-mail and messaging market, Microsoft ranks first… Continue reading Exchanging Exchange
Lou Rosenfeld & Peter Morville Interview
since1968: Lou Rosenfeld & Peter Morville Interview. On the other hand, the search system may be incredibly usable, but poorly designed from an architectural perspective, and therefore doesn't help you find what you're looking for. Usability and findability are simply different aspects of design, and you can have one without the other. [Tomalak's Realm]
Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson reviews outlining tools: Inspiration, Mind Map Pro, and Tinderbox. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
Wired
Wired. An overview of the failure of 20% of UUNet's routers on Thursday. This begs the question: “Who is going to buy WorldCom?” [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
LawMeme
LawMeme (Yale) – Features: Law School in a Nutshell, Part II. Welcome back to Part II of Law School in a Nutshell, LawMeme's hacker-oriented introduction to reading legal documents and understanding the strange way in which lawyers look at the world. (You can go read Part I if you missed it at the time.) In… Continue reading LawMeme
LawMeme
LawMeme (Yale) – Features: Law School in a Nutshell, Part 1. Future lawyers spend three years in law school learning how to read and write legalese, but what serious geek has that kind of time to spare? This series will cover the basics of Legal; by the end of it, you should be ready to… Continue reading LawMeme
DRM Legislation As It Should Be
DRM Legislation As It Should Be. DRM Bill Proposed in US House “A bill introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives approaches digital rights management (DRM) from consumers' standpoint by ensuring that people who buy digital media can make backup copies and play them on whatever device they like without fear of breaking copyright… Continue reading DRM Legislation As It Should Be