Author: Vince Kimball

TypePad's gone all personal(ized). Awesome! After promising it as one of the upselling features of the Pro- and Plus-level accounts, Six Apart has delivered TypePad's domain mapping feature. (You can see it in action at alaina.org.) Now, maybe it's time to convert this entire website over to TypePad… something to think about, indeed. At least… Continue reading TypePad's gone all personal(ized)

Dartmouth's wireless wonderland. Over at VentureBlog, Naval Ravikant wrote up his experience using Dartmouth's amazing wireless network. Wired ran a piece last October about the university's plans to build out a universally-available, open network that encourages both educational use and recreational tinkering, and from Naval's piece, it looks as if it's working. Students are using… Continue reading Dartmouth's wireless wonderland

Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites. “Not long ago, I found myself at a newspaper with a Web team who wanted my usability services for a new entertainment site they were building. Our first meeting involved a spirited discussion about the site the team had long envisioned. As the talk of this… Continue reading Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites

Ancient World Mapping Center. “The Ancient World Mapping Center exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies. The staff and affiliates of the Center work to advance the study of the ancient world through innovative and collaborative research, teaching, and community outreach activities using cartography, geographic… Continue reading Ancient World Mapping Center

How to Make Your Telecommute Work. Working from home is the future, and I am among its staunchest advocates. I not only report on this trend, I live it. By Lisa Belkin. [New York Times: Technology]

Back from Florida.  Had a great time!

Off to visit friends and family in Florida for the weekend!

Slugging Broadband out of the Central Office. US Wireless Online starts serving a big chunk of Louisville, Kentucky: The broadband wireless provider is offering 256 to 384 Kbps upload and 2 Mpbs download for $40 per month residential (including a modem rental of $10/month), and $90 per month or higher for business service. They expect… Continue reading Slugging Broadband out of the Central Office

My note to Susan. I ran into an old colleague (old as in we worked together on Guts in 1990, so don't tell me you've been online a long time, okay?). Susan is a very talented web designer, and like most web designers, she's sort of in between the “oh boy, we need a website, let's… Continue reading My note to Susan

Free hot spots are a Purple Cow.. Free hot spots pay dividends – Computerworld “That means Wi-Fi service brings in more than $100,000 per year per outlet in return for an investment of about $8,000 per restaurant for wireless infrastructure, Wooley says.” [Seth's Blog]