Month: December 2002

Jennifer Klyse: “I want to build a service that allows individuals to monitor, on a daily or weekly basis, all official activity of their elected officials in Washington.” Amen. [Scripting News]

Snowstorm Sweeps Up East Coast. Snow and sleet fell on the eastern United States today, slowing the engines of commerce and transportation from the South to New England. By David Stout. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Boston Church Panel Will Allow Archdiocese to Weigh Bankruptcy. In order to deal with the lawsuits it faces over abuse by priests, a finance panel of the Archdiocese of Boston voted to allow the church to file for bankruptcy. By Pam Belluck. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Information Needs Analysis. Lou talks about selecting IA components to fulfill information needs. [ia/ – information architecture news]

The Go Game: San Francisco Urban Wireless Adventure. The Go Game is an all-out urban adventure game, a technology-fueled, reality-based experience that encourages hard play and a keen eye for the weird, the beautiful, or the faintly out-of-the-ordinary. The “rule book” is reality, the “board” is your city, and the “pieces” are the players —… Continue reading The Go Game: San Francisco Urban Wireless Adventure

Mikel continues to push forward Radio's ability to serve as an easy to customize digital dashboard with his tool:   myRadio Nuggets.  With this tool you can make posts (or publish a stand-alone page using Radio's “stories” menu) that include stock quotes, weather data, ebay auction data, and Fedex tracking info (he promises that more is… Continue reading myRadio Nuggets

“The Matrix and Philosophy” by William Irwin, ed.. Philosophers tackle the mind-bending questions posed by the science-fiction hit “The Matrix,” and come up with some surprisingly deep thoughts. [Salon.com]

Libraries: A shelter in the storm. – “It was a dark and stormy night. The first rainstorm of the season pounded hard on the roof of the Menlo Park Public Library. The wind howled and tree branches fell. I settled in for a quiet shift at the reference desk –planning to read back issues of… Continue reading Libraries: A shelter in the storm

Enemies of Usability. Pay no heed to the enemy propaganda. Things are not as bleak as they may seem… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

The Best IA Tool You Never Heard Of. Sadly, tools for conceptually laying out sites have remained fairly rudimentary… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]