Month: August 2003

Urbane Planning. Company of Friends member Christian Young recently emailed the Knowledge Management CoF about the work of UK-based David Gurteen. A recent entry in Gurteen's blog caught my eye. Gurteen brings up the idea of a knowledge city … [Fast Company Now]

MSN Messenger Lockdown Started. Microsoft is locking third parties out of its MSN Messenger service on October 15th by changing the service so that only its latest version of the official MSN Messenger can connect. I use Fire which is a multi-service chat client… [An Architect's View]

Kuniavsky in the house. Adaptive Path's Mike Kuniavsky has started a blog over at Orange Cone, and that reminded me of all the links I've been saving up about his new book Observing the User Experience. Ian Alexander's practical review compares OtUE with Designing Collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to Ethnography. Crafting a User Research… Continue reading Kuniavsky in the house

Free Forrester Paper – web usability downfalls; personas; more. Forrester Research has made their TechStrategy Brief Web Sites Continue to Fail the Usability Test available for guest users on the site. For the price of your time signing up for a guest account, you'll get a 7 page article they would normally charge $200 or… Continue reading Free Forrester Paper – web usability downfalls; personas; more

Back to the Future: New Wi-Fi Bridges Use 1999 Standard. Wireless bridging comes in two forms: 1) the Wi-Fi signal bridged via an internal router in an access point or gateway to a wired network, and 2) wireless-to-wireless bridging using the Wireless Distribution System (WDS). Glenn Fleishman brings you up-to-speed on the evolution of this… Continue reading Back to the Future: New Wi-Fi Bridges Use 1999 Standard

Today's song: “The West Coast has the sunshine, and the girls all get so tan..” [Scripting News]

More on Howard Dean. His candidacy appears to be picking up steam. He's polling above Kerry now. The Nation has an article about his appeal and his campaign: Right now, Dean is the only viable candidate who speaks to the anger, fear and loathing a large number of ordinary citizens feel about the direction Bush… Continue reading More on Howard Dean

The World is Changed. Remember the opening sequence of Fellowship of the Ring? The narration goes, “The world is changed. I feel it in the earth. I feel it in the water. I smell it in the air.” This began as a comment on… [Democrats WatchBlog]

Howard Dean's Start-up Syndrome. Presidential candidate Howard Dean is hot right now. He's just got one problem: How can he transform a sudden burst of success into long-term momentum (Hmmm, that sounds familiar)? Anyhow, that's the question posed in a great New York Times… [Fast Company Now]

LISNews Goes Wireless and Bill Drew Promotes LibraryLookup to His Users. Bill Drew: “I am pleased to announce the creation of a new blog for and about Libraries with WLANs, LISnews.Com: Wireless at http://wireless.lisnews.com. I am proud of the fact that Blake Carver believes this is important enough to set up this special section of… Continue reading LISNews Goes Wireless and Bill Drew Promotes LibraryLookup to His Users