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You're Athletes, Not Journalists. Olympians can do media interviews but they'd better not blog. The International Olympic Committee, interested in protecting lucrative broadcasting contracts, forbids any activity that might upset the networks. [Wired News]

Cooper Interaction Design: Well-designed products. A common affliction plaguing many of us interaction designers is the propensity to complain and kvetch about every piece of software on our computers, cell-phones and cars. And it's true–there is a lot of bad software out there. To offset this sometimes irritating tendency to critique and redesign everything we… Continue reading Well-designed products

OneNote Virtual Printer PowerToy. I love OneNote and have grown dependent on it. However, one of my biggest complaints has been the lack of a virtual printer. (See my previous article Three Missing Features in OneNote.) Unlike Windows Journal, GoBinder, or TabletPlanner, there's not been an easy way to get an external document into OneNote.… Continue reading OneNote Virtual Printer PowerToy

Tips for IA job hunters. Michael Angeles has a boatload of excellent advice for information architects looking for work. If you’re in the market for an IA job, particularly if you’re new in the field, go read it now. Caroline Jarrett’s recent take on how not to get a job in usability has similar themes… Continue reading Tips for IA job hunters

IA Heuristics. Lou Rosenfeld offers up his set of heuristics for information architecture. Much more useful for evaluating findability than Jakob and Rolf’s original usability heuristics that were developed in DOS days. [ia/ blogs]

Knowledge at a bargain. Overstock.com has lots of developer books at discounts of 40% and higher, much cheaper than Amazon. Not just “old junk”, but quality books like Fritz Onion's Essential ASP.NET for $25 and Jeffrey Richter's Applied .NET Framework Programming for $29. [Live @ Sax.net]

Resume Tips. Noting this for myself, and any other IT folks who might be looking for something new. Jeremy Wright gathered up a bunch of resume tips. [Life of a one-man IT department]

Removing Spyware. A much more detailed article about removing spyware than any of the random bits of information I've talked about here. A good thing to keep handy, and pass around! Link via Lockergnome. [Life of a one-man IT department]

Readers Anonymous. I've mentioned before that I feel this strange emotional attachment to books. They're, like, you know, lovely wonderful things that I can't ever imagine parting with. The fact is, though, that I think I am somewhat addicted to them. I buy books, even when I don't have time to read them and can't… Continue reading Readers Anonymous

Search Training Pays Off. Strategic Legal Technology :: August :: 2004 has some interesting thoughts by Ron Friedmann on search engine use: A relatively small investment in the mechanics of searching can have a big pay-off. I recently had the chance to visit with a large firm where I was suprised to see that lawyers… Continue reading Search Training Pays Off