The Economist says Fire Rummy. There's no shortage of news articles about abuses of prisoners in Iraq. And now several publications, including the New York Times and The Economist are calling for the resignation of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The Economist's op-ed, Resign, Rumsfeld has a clear premise, “Responsibility for errors and indiscipline… Continue reading The Economist says Fire Rummy
Month: May 2004
Peter Morville goes on the road this Fall
Peter Morville goes on the road this Fall. Information Architecture and Findability is Peter Morville’s contribution to the UX roadshow circuit. Boston, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. will all be Fall stops – $695 US for the day for early registration (reasonable compared to IA Summit workshops, still spendy for students and folks out of… Continue reading Peter Morville goes on the road this Fall
IMAP and protocol sniffing
IMAP and protocol sniffing. My recent columns (here and here) about struggling with various combinations of the Treo 600, Notes, and Outlook using IMAP clients spurred some very practical reader feedback, a lot of it focused on my reference to protocol sniffing — something that perhaps shouldn't be a last resort as I described in… Continue reading IMAP and protocol sniffing
Frog Design's Chief Technologist blogs
Frog Design's Chief Technologist blogs. Mason Hale, Chief Technologist at Frog Design, has started a blog. I can't wait to read more. Frog Design is a very respected design house. Here's more about Mason. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
Books I'm reading
Books I'm reading. I'm reading several books right now. Bob Reselman's Coding Slave. So far it's an interesting read, have more to say when I'm done. Bob's show on .NET Rocks, by the way, simply rocked. Check out Rory Blyth's account. Dan Appleman's Always Use Protection, a Teen's Guide to Safe Computing. This book is… Continue reading Books I'm reading
The accidental arbiter
Christian Science Monitor: The accidental arbiter. An unelected official, he's in charge of regulating what people see and hear, and how. His purview ranges from new technology – using the Internet as a telephone, for example – to old debates with new heat, such as how much profanity seeps into TV programs. [Tomalak's Realm]
Scorning the Law
Scorning the Law. Anthony Lewis: A President Beyond the Law. The question tears at all of us, regardless of party or ideology: How could American men and women treat Iraqi prisoners with such cruelty — and laugh at their humiliation? We are told that there was a failure of military leadership. Officers in the field… Continue reading Scorning the Law
How Much Does Information Technology Matter?
How Much Does Information Technology Matter?: Commoditizing it does not necessarily mean innovation slows. If anything, it could accelerate as more and more innovators experiment and tinker with those cheap, ubiquitous information technology commodities. Source: New York Times: Technology [As we see every day… but it does change the marketplace. A word to the wise.]… Continue reading How Much Does Information Technology Matter?
Vivisimo
Vivisimo. Another resource that Mr. Price pointed out at the BayNet meeting…. Vivísimo is a clustering search engine. What does that mean, you might ask? The search engine automatically clusters search results into categories that are selected from the words and phrases in the search results themselves. The interface is intuitive and the clusters are… Continue reading Vivisimo
Adobe Designer 6.0 preview
Adobe Designer 6.0 preview. A more descriptive name for Adobe Designer 6.0 might be “InfoPath for PDF.” The concept is brilliant: exploit Microsoft's failure to make InfoPath ubiquitous by putting interactivity and XML smarts into Adobe's free PDF viewer, and by offering a forms builder that targets both Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Announced last summer,… Continue reading Adobe Designer 6.0 preview