The top 20 IT Mistakes to Avoid. Chad Dickerson and his Infoworld readers come with this list which is a bit uneven but includes common sense tips: 1. Botching your outsourcing strategy 2. Dismissing open source — or bowing before it 3. Offshoring with blinders on …. [Olivier Travers]
Month: November 2004
Undoing the Industrial Revolution
Useit.Com: Undoing the Industrial Revolution. We typically overestimate what can be done in the short term. Improvements seem so close we can smell them, but human behavior and social institutions are slow to change. At the same time, we underestimate what will happen in the long term, because changes accumulate and accelerate. [Tomalak's Realm]
Long Copy vs. Short Copy
Long Copy vs. Short Copy. MarketingExperiments.com recently set out to see what impact the length of sales copy has on a website's conversion rate. The results: long copy clearly outperformed short copy in all three of their tests. This is something we've wrestled with at BasecampHQ.com. We like to be as descriptive and informative as… Continue reading Long Copy vs. Short Copy
Not proven verdict under threat
Not proven verdict under threat. The “not proven” alternative to Scottish trial verdicts of “guilty” and “not guilty” could be scrapped under plans being drawn up by a Labour MSP. [The Scotsman]
More thoughts on government.
More thoughts on government.. I leave comments enabled so that people can tell me when I'm wrong. Because sometimes I am. I absolutely get off on a serious rant sometimes and forget to think about what I'm saying. and I appreciate it when people hold me accountable for what I say. But you know who… Continue reading More thoughts on government.
noted before
DVDs triumphant In an eye-opening article journalist Jon Gerner in the New York Times Magazine (“Box Office in A Box”, 11/14/2004) confirms a trend we have noted before; namely, that the DVD, not the theatrical release, has become the major profit center for the big Hollywood studios. He points out that this year “63 percent… Continue reading noted before
Some things, like…
Some things, like…. Some things, like the DeLay Rule, are outrageous but not that surprising. But what I'm about to describe is outrageous and almost literally unbelievable. As you've probably heard, the congress is pushing through a big omnibus spending bill this weekend. And at the last minute, Republican leaders tried to slip in a… Continue reading Some things, like…
Presentation Assistant
Presentation Assistant. New in the Tinderbox Public File Exchange, a fresh Tinderbox assistant that builds web-enabled a presentation framework. It's a tool for making Powerpoint-like presentations that are lightweight — you can download them quickly over the Web — and it's based on ubiquitous Web standards so you can present anywhere. It's all based on… Continue reading Presentation Assistant
Snippy begins to creak into motion
Snippy begins to creak into motion. I've started some serious thinking about Snippy design. Current ideas are visible on the Snippy features page. All comments welcome.I've written more complicated web applications before. I've solved harder information design problems before. It still looks like a lot of work.I've decided to rethink my choice of Python as… Continue reading Snippy begins to creak into motion
Hope v. Fear
Hope v. Fear. The perspicacious Lexington has some thoughts on why George Bush and the GOP won: Democrats need to realize that the Republicans didn't just beat them on fear. They clobbered them on hope. For the moment, the American right is better at talking about the future than the left. It is better at… Continue reading Hope v. Fear