Six Tips for Improving Your Design Documentation. “If you are a designer or product planner, you probably create documents of some kind to capture your design decisions and solutions. Documentation is a crucial component of successful product planning and implementation, so it's important that it communicates as effectively as possible. Good organization, complete information, and… Continue reading Six Tips for Improving Your Design Documentation
Month: May 2003
Harry Potter at the Witching Hour
Harry Potter at the Witching Hour. Plan to Potter Around Oak Park Next Month “But you don't have to be a wizard, and you don't have to be in London to pay a visit to that fabled alley. Just go to Oak Park Avenue and Lake Street in west suburban Oak Park on Friday, June… Continue reading Harry Potter at the Witching Hour
NY Times
NY Times on White House theatrics. They hired people from ABC and Fox to stage events for them. The pic of Bush in front of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt at Mt Rushmore is beautiful, and frightening. [Scripting News]
Weblogs and knowledge management
Weblogs and knowledge management. Weblogs and knowledge management Another stream of recent posts has focused on weblogs as a tool for knowledge management both to capture and share knowledge. They include a mix of posts focusing on individual knowledge workers and on knowledge workers within organizations. [via McGee's Musings] Jim – great job summarizing some… Continue reading Weblogs and knowledge management
ACLU Releases Report on Suppression of Dissent in a Post 9/11 America
American Civil Liberties Union : Press Release – ACLU Releases Report on Suppression of Dissent in a Post 9/11 America . Taking their cue from the Bush Administration, law enforcement officials across the country have interrogated, detained and prosecuted hundreds of people for exercising their First Amendment freedoms of speech and assembly, according to a… Continue reading ACLU Releases Report on Suppression of Dissent in a Post 9/11 America
The Scoop on Nestle/Dreyer's
Nestle announced last year that it would acquire Dreyer's Grand
The Scoop on Nestle/Dreyer's Nestle announced last year that it would acquire Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream. That's Dreyer's, not to be confused with Breyers, a brand owned by Unilever. Dreyer's is the number one manufacturer of premium ice cream in the United States, under the brand names Edy's (in the East) and Dreyer's (in the… Continue reading
The Scoop on Nestle/Dreyer's
Nestle announced last year that it would acquire Dreyer's Grand
Other News: Open Mail Relays
Other News: Open Mail Relays. The FTC and others try to tame the spam problem by asking people to close open mail relays. [MacInTouch]
Apple: Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v74)
Apple: Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v74). The new browser release “improves how Safari validates the authenticity of websites that use SSL certificates.” [MacInTouch]
Apple: Darwin 6.6 source code
Apple: Darwin 6.6 source code. Apple released the Darwin 6.6 source code, corresponding to Mac OS X 10.2.6. [MacInTouch]
Ranking Universities on how they honor cyber-liberties
Ranking Universities on how they honor cyber-liberties. Wired Magazine's latest edition (page 36 of the hard copy, which won't be online til 5/20) ranks the “nation's top 50 research universities” and grades the best 5 and worst 5 when it comes to cyber-liberties. Of local interst, Tulane was ranked 2nd worst with the comment that… Continue reading Ranking Universities on how they honor cyber-liberties