Author: Vince Kimball

Ten Taxonomy Myths. The Montague Institute offers ten myths that need to be dispelled before embarking on a taxonomy project. They've got a *really* broad definition of taxonomy (think “classification system”) but the myths are still useful to deflate before your client or boss goes taxonomy-happy. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Teaching taxonomies: a hands-on approach. If you happen to have a Montague Institute membership, you might want to check out this article (full text with screenshots only available to members) discussing how to get a diverse team of professionals thinking about taxonomies. The full article features some excellent examples from their learning lab that show… Continue reading Teaching taxonomies: a hands-on approach

News.Com: Yahoo alights on new search site. The redesigned graphical interface and search service, called Yahoo Search, will have newfound prominence across the Web portal's collection of sites and will be marketed widely in traditional and online media starting Monday, according to Jeff Weiner, Yahoo's vice president of search. [Tomalak's Realm]

Redirecting the mob. I love the last bit of this piece by Mark Cooper that I'm quoting it extensively: The responsibilities of the peace movement are far too weighty to be squandered in sputtering and ultimately politically irrelevant feel-good acts of blocking traffic or ripping down fences at military bases. As war breaks out, the… Continue reading Redirecting the mob

Using PHP With LDAP. One of the reasons for PHP's immense popularity is its support for a wide variety of different Internet technologies. It is this support, coupled with the speed with which new language extensions get added to the source tree, that keeps PHP ahead of other competing languages in the same category, and… Continue reading Using PHP With LDAP

Blogs, scopes, and human routers. Back before there were blogs, my groupthink laboratory was the NNTP protocol, which I used at roughly four levels: workgroup (my new media development team at BYTE Magazine), department (the BYTE editorial team), company (all of BYTE), and world (BYTE's public newsgroups). I learned something then that was, and still… Continue reading Blogs, scopes, and human routers

FireFly….  FireFly will be a fully Free Software Complete library system. It hopes to challenge Dynix with completness. It is still in the early development stages but is moving along quickly. If anyone would like some more information about the project or if someone would like to contribute information or help with the coding, please… Continue reading FireFly…

HotSpots grow, usage not nearly. More on Hot Spot Uptake Hot spots aren't seeing the numbers yet they need to survive: T-Mobile once again says they're not promoting their service, which is specious (see my earlier comments). The crux of the article is this: Wi-Fi use “is certainly not growing at the same pace as… Continue reading HotSpots grow, usage not nearly

10 things You Always Wanted To Know About Money (and can't afford not to ask). What are your chances of being audited? Could the economy function without bank machines? What's the one stock investment that you should have made when you were young? We answer 10 questions — some serious, some lighthearted, all eye-opening —… Continue reading 10 things You Always Wanted To Know About Money (and can't afford not to ask)

Wow, I've just reinstalled XP from scratch and I see there's 33 “critical updates and service packs” that I need to load and another 22 “Windows XP updates” and another three “driver updates.” Dang, I wish that Microsoft would release a new OS every three months or so that had all the fixes already loaded.… Continue reading

Wow, I've just reinstalled XP from scratch and I see there's 33 “critical updates and service packs” that I need to load and another 22 “Windows XP updates” and another three “driver updates.” Dang, I wish that Microsoft would release a new OS every three months or so that had all the fixes already loaded. That would save me a ton of time.

I bet that most people don't even bother to upgrade and patch their machines with the latest stuff.

I really hope that Microsoft makes some dramatic improvements to this system. It's just really cumbersome to load a new OS, and then spend the next five hours simply getting up to date and I haven't even started loading apps yet!  [The Scobleizer Weblog