Author: Vince Kimball

Fred Rogers, Host of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' Dies at 74. The thoughtful television “neighbor,” who helped generations of children learn to get along in this world, died this morning. By Daniel Lewis. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Archbishop of Canterbury Is Enthroned. CANTERBURY, England, Feb. 27 With its narrow lanes, Roman ruins, timbered pubs named for friars and pilgrims and its namesake tales, Canterbury is a place of lasting antiquity. Today it turned its sturdy ancient face to a lively, if less certain, future. By Warren Hoge. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Librarians Towards the Top of the Information Technology Food Chain!. Blog Publishers Stealing Web Limelight “Dave Winer, a pioneering Silicon Valley-based software programmer who is widely credited with spearheading the self-publishing movement, sees blogging following a well-worn path into the mainstream. 'At first the geeks go for a new information technology. It is required for… Continue reading Librarians Towards the Top of the Information Technology Food Chain!

Aggregating Your Life into One Page. Will Richardson is starting to “get” it: More RSS Thinking “I think I'm starting to understand why Jenny and so many others are really hot on RSS and its potential. The more I mull over the scenarios of how it might work in the classroom, the more interested I… Continue reading Aggregating Your Life into One Page

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Preparing for Computer Disasters. Most colleges have some sort of plan to protect their computer information, although few have faced the kind of disaster that would demonstrate whether those plans actually worked. Experts say staging a mock computer disaster can highlight a preparedness plan's shortcomings, but such tests happen only… Continue reading Preparing for Computer Disasters

How do you know who you know?. Knowledge Management, or KM as it is often called, seeks to address the problem of managing knowledge in an organization.  There is a lot of knowledge inside the heads and documents of people that work in an organizations. The question is how to tap into that knowledge. Similarly,… Continue reading How do you know who you know?

Hail the Well Designed Legal Website!. DennisKennedy praises MyShingle as the perfect example of what a law website should be.  The thing I like most about it is that it has an RSS feed, so I've added to list of law blogs with RSS feeds. [Ernie the Attorney]

Law Firm Word Processor Smackdown. The endless debate over which word processing program, Word or WordPerfect, best suits lawyers continues.  It appears that WordPerfect is the winner in this episode. [Ernie the Attorney]

Taxing Internet sales is a bad idea. Read this column by John Dvorak.  I don't like the guy and I think he's a blowhard, but he makes some good points in this article. [Ernie the Attorney]

Practical Persona Creation. Keith Robinson has an interesting article on Evolt about Practical Persona Creation. If you've used personas before, there's not a lot new, but it's a good introduction for colleagues or others not familiar with the technique. He's also followed it up with a couple example personas. [ia/ – information architecture news]