Month: May 2003

Maybe usability is rocket science, after all.. The Usability Engineering Team at NASA's Glenn Research Center have a site that offers help to teams adopting user centered design. Highlights include: Templates 10 great reasons to do usability User-Centered Design process with checklist. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Who pays for discovery of E-mail?. Lexis One is reporting on a story that is likely to be of interest to litigators who deal with discovery of electronic mail: “UBS Warburg was ordered this week to pay for the search and recovery of e-mail messages requested by a plaintiff, giving aggrieved investors a new legal… Continue reading Who pays for discovery of E-mail?

Lessig on Howard Dean. “Howard Dean says at least two important and true things here: (1) “The way to deal with a leader is to be another leader, and to be strong in your views and present the American people with a choice”; (2) “For me, when the Cumulus Corporation, which owns a lot of… Continue reading Lessig on Howard Dean

New Law Blog. Dennis Kennedy nabs this one: “Legal marketing maven, Larry Bodine, has joined the blogging world (with XML feed).”   Dennis says his “Law Marketing Portal is a fabulous resource on legal marketing.”  Adjust your browser bookmarks and RSS aggregators accordingly. [Ernie the Attorney]

What sort of Information Technology does the CIA have?. Here's one account that is pretty interesting.  Here's an excerpt regarding how the Directorate of Intelligence analysts do their job: “an important part of a DI analyst’s tradecraft is building an informal source network. A good analyst either knows someone, or “knows someone who knows someone,”… Continue reading What sort of Information Technology does the CIA have?

Other News: Why Things Don't Work: Business 2.0 talks with Donald Norman about usability, discussing Microsoft, IBM and Dell. * [Archipelago]

Slimp3.  One of our favorite recent toys has been the Slimp3. It's a very simple device – about the size of a rolled up magazine, with ports for power, Ethernet, and amplifier. It's job is to take mp3 files streamed from a server and play them through the amplifier. The nice thing about it is… Continue reading Slimp3

LanguageForLearningObjects If I want to teach people object-orientation, which language should I use? For the last couple of years the first choice language for learning about objects has been Java. There's many good reasons to use Java. It's widely known It uses a C based syntax which is becoming the dominant style. Free, high quality… Continue reading LanguageForLearningObjects

Bliki. Martin Fowler (Refactoring guru) has started a tech-rich bliki, a cross between weblog and wiki as a repository of ideas on software development. [Mark Bernstein]

Intel's Handheld Personal Server. The personal server mounts on any PC that can recognize wireless devices: “Any computer becomes your computer,” said Want. MP3 enthusiasts can sidle up to any computer that recognizes wireless devices, and exchange files using the host computer's keyboard, mouse and screen. Other potential applications for the personal server include sensor… Continue reading Intel's Handheld Personal Server