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Today's five-star site: Avalon Project

Today's five-star site: Avalon Project. Yale Law School’s Avalon Project publishes on the Web historical documents from the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Materials span ancient Greece to contemporary times, and include such pre-Eighteenth Century documents as the Athenian Constitution by Aristotle, the Code of Hammurabi and the Magna Carta. Documents are… Continue reading Today's five-star site: Avalon Project

Touch points

Touch points. Some notes around strategies for yellowpages that may help. I have found the IAWiki to be a useful resource. Related concepts you may wish to visit are expertise mapping, taxonomy and ontology. The key issues here as I see them are: * getting all users to buy-in on central domain categories and issues,… Continue reading Touch points

Knowledge lost

Knowledge lost. The loss of knowledge and ways to mitigate this disruption is a key KM topic and practice. Here are some thoughts after reading “Lost knowledge” a new book by David DeLong, 2004. Demographics Clearly we are at the start of the baby-boomer exit from the active workforce – a subtle demographics driver, whose… Continue reading Knowledge lost

Soup-to-Nuts Spam and Virus Protection for SMBs

Soup-to-Nuts Spam and Virus Protection for SMBs. One comprehensive program, no IT required and 24/7 tech support–Trend Micro makes it easy for SMBs to avoid spam and viruses. [Datamation Product News]

Collection of IA related research

Collection of IA related research. Peter Morville spent some time in the library this summer looking for research related to information architecture. He just published a list of freely available papers, categorized by broad topics like navigation and search. Useful stuff, but heavy reading at times. [ia/ blogs]

Preparing for the Holiday Shopping Season

Useit.Com: Preparing for the Holiday Shopping Season. Many B2C sites make a disproportionate share of their profits in Q4. If the holiday shopping season is important to your company, the following seven last-chance tips can help you get your site in shape for the holidays while there's still time. [Tomalak's Realm]

Usability / Workspace Quality

Usability / Workspace Quality. My Latest Article Software in the 1980s, when usability was “invented,” was all about computer-human interaction. A lot of software still is. But the Internet brings us a new kind of software: software that's about human-human interaction. When you're writing software that mediates between people, after you get the usability right,… Continue reading Usability / Workspace Quality

2nd Hurricane Deepens Wounds in Stricken Florida

2nd Hurricane Deepens Wounds in Stricken Florida. Millions were left without power and hundreds of thousands without ready access to gasoline, groceries or other daily staples. By  FELICITY BARRINGER. [The New York Times > Home Page]