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How do you deploy?. The other day I was watching a webcast for all the new cool deployment tools of Vista for small to medium businesses… but there's one problem…. down here in the small biz space we don't buy the computers in a manner to deploy like we should. Hands up.. who has clients… Continue reading How do you deploy?

Web Credibility. On the heels of my Tale of 3 eCommerce Sites, I ran across an interesting article about building up your website’s credibility at The Conversion Chronicles. The author, Trenton Moss, highlights several steps to gaining web credibility for your website: 1. You must prove there’s a real organization behind your website The web… Continue reading Web Credibility

Give me books, twice. The point of PDF books isn't to throw away the paper ones, it's to get them delivered faster. [Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times]

Home costs are called a drag on state growth. High home prices are limiting the Boston area's ability to regain the jobs lost in the 2001 recession and sustain economic growth, according to two new studies being released today during a conference at Boston's Federal Reserve Bank. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

DEVONthink: An appreciation of smart groups�. Using Smart Groups I’ve recently gotten way back into DEVONthink as a means to capture, wrangle, and analyze all the reference material in my world. If you’re new to this amazing application — and at the risk of far exceeding my understanding of both the human brain and this… Continue reading DEVONthink: An appreciation of smart groups�

Getting To Done: De-stress yourself. by Keith Robinson If you're reading this chances are you've got some interest in making your life less stressed. I know it's a big deal for me. I'm a naturally stressed-out person and I'm trying more and more to keep my stress-level low. Lately it's been pretty high, and while… Continue reading Getting To Done: De-stress yourself

User Interfaces for Physical Spaces. MAYA Design and the IA Institute are hosting a day long workshop User Interfaces for Physical Spaces on Monday, December 12 in Pittsburgh. The workshop will showcase MAYA's work redesigning the physical and information space of the Carnegie Library…if you haven't had the chance to look at MAYA's slides from… Continue reading User Interfaces for Physical Spaces

Recordings from the IA Summit Redux in Washington, DC. This Saturday the DC-IA group organized an IA Summit Redux where many summit sessions were reviewed and discussed. You may download complete audio recordings of the discussions (on tagging, deliverables, theory and web 2.0) from livlab.com. Many thanks to Dan Brown and the DC area IAs… Continue reading Recordings from the IA Summit Redux in Washington, DC

Diebold Doesn't Get It. This quote sums up nicely why Diebold should not be trusted to secure election machines: David Bear, a spokesman for Diebold Election Systems, said the potential risk existed because the company's technicians had intentionally built the machines in such a way that election officials would be able to update their systems… Continue reading Diebold Doesn't Get It

The politics of presentation software. Presentation software has been stuck in neutral forever. Web applications, however, are firing on all cylinders. Some say Word and Excel are about to be Web 2.0 roadkill. Not me. The browser can't yet substitute for those applications. But for PowerPoint? Any day now. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] [Jon's Radio]