Author: Vince Kimball

Knemeyer on Information Design. Dirk Knemeyer writes a great primer on Information Design and how it relates to Web design and development. From the article: More than its value to business, information is also the principle component to human knowledge and progress. By experiencing information — through any of the available senses — people are… Continue reading Knemeyer on Information Design

APIs, protocols, and rogue plumbers. The inexorable logic of Web services sets aside APIs in favor of protocols. XML messages flowing through the pipes enact those protocols. Anyone with authorized access to that plumbing will be able to monitor and inject messages quite easily, and everyone will know that's true. If B or S or… Continue reading APIs, protocols, and rogue plumbers

Cisco's General Counsel is willing to pay lawyers to do something new. Pssstt!  Hey lawyers, the General Counsel of a large technology company is willing to pay you to do something new.  For more information, read this. [Ernie the Attorney]

Phone Companies See Their Future in Flat-Rate Plans. Every telephone call in the world may soon become a local call, thanks to increasing competition and technological advances. By Nicholas Thompson. [New York Times: Technology]

Song Airlines getting ready to fly out of Tampa.  Song Airlines is beginning flights from Tampa to New York and Boston. The airline features video games, satellite television, digital audio and what it calls fun flight attendants.  [10 News via Moreover]

Article: Advantages of Blogs for Legal Marketing. I'm pleased to have gotten great feedback on my LLRX article explaining the advantages of using blogs for law firm marketing. I thought it was important to write an article like this, because many of the most important blog advantages are not apparent at all to casual observers and require… Continue reading Article: Advantages of Blogs for Legal Marketing

Blogging at Work: The right tool for the job. Quote: “[…]in my experience, once institutions shell out boatloads of money for an 'enterprise solution' like.. oh, for instance… Blackboard, all too often they end up trying to justify the massive outlay of resources by trying to use it for lots of things it's not very… Continue reading Blogging at Work: The right tool for the job

Tim Bray: The Death of Scholarship?. Quote: “I'm not against Web search; I use Google several times per day myself. But I think somebody really needs to get out there and exercise some leadership and dress up the world's scholarly information sources, including by the way most of our intellectual history, so that ordinary people… Continue reading Tim Bray: The Death of Scholarship?

Here come the tribes. Teen Tribes. Interesting stuff … and quite global in its depictions.  Check out the descriptions for each … you just might start understanding your neighbour's child better ….            Tribal Alliances. When Teenage Tribes Attack Which tribe do you (or your kids) belong to? As a new… Continue reading Here come the tribes

WebOutliner in Vienna. WebOutliner and Other New Tools. Marc Barrot is demonstrating the extraordinary WebOutliner at the BlogTalk conference. It's one of several new tools in a BOF session, and they're worth a posting all their own. The potential for this thing is significant, even if outlining is not a native notion to most folks.… Continue reading WebOutliner in Vienna