Virgina Postrel on user experience: Virginia was the editor of Reason magazine for many years, and is now an author and blogger. In this interview with the American Graphics Institute she talks mostly about how general design affects the user experience, but the ideas apply to design of web publications and applications as well. The [...]

Nice paper on usability on the web – Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability) – Great paper on usability. There are a lot of nuggets here that are worth taking to heart. The topics covered go down to where on the page most people are expecting to see links. Print copy is available. [...]

I've been reading a great (and out of print) book : By Design, by Ralph Caplan. The author does a wonderful job of communicating the potential of design in a simple and direct fashion. Recommended reading, and it's a short read too — those of us trying to define IA to others could learn a [...]

Bad Spam Filters  Spam is getting worse and worse. My incoming spam ratio is well over 50% by now. SpamAssassin catches and tags most of it; these are automatically shuttled into a “Spam” folder. About once a week, it takes me 15 seconds to make sure there's nothing important in there and throw it out. [...]

Cornell.  Amit Lal gets a prototype of a nuclear micro-generator working.  A generator of this type could power a small device for a decade.  This is some of the most exciting technology in play today. The prototype shown in August was gigantic by comparison with the latest versions, Lal said. An entire device, including a [...]

Delta gets it. About six months ago, the passenger to my right informs me, Delta Airlines installed the new information system that I just experienced for the first time at La Guardia airport this morning. It's one of the most effective uses of information technology I have ever seen. Even if you don't usually fly [...]

I'm doing an interesting project to backup a Radio installation into the cloud. Eventually this will allow people to synchronize work between office and home, a common feature request. In the process, I found a new use for RSS, as an interchange format for weblog software. Almost everything we store about a weblog post is [...]

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Dan Bricklin reviews the TabletPC. You know, my experience with the Tablet is much like Dan's. I won't buy another laptop. It's over. The Tablet has already changed my life that much. And, yes, I need to wait until next year to get one of the NEC's (which are, by the way, about half the [...]

Safire on Poindexter's Panopticon. WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade [...]