Judges Blast Library Filtering

Wired News: Judges Blast Library Filtering. The U.S. Congress' third assault on Internet pornography appears likely to meet the same ignoble end as the previous two. A two-week trial over library filtering ended Thursday with a trio of judges criticizing the CIPA as an unreasonable intrusion into the rights of Americans to view legal material… Continue reading Judges Blast Library Filtering

The story behind Usability.gov

Boxes and Arrows: The story behind Usability.gov. Today, Usability.gov has earned a following among technology professionals. For the uninitiated, Usability.gov is a one-stop source for government web designers to learn how to make websites more usable, useful, and accessible. [Tomalak's Realm]

Law Is Free

Law Is Free “After following the initial progress of the Radio community, I've come to believe that this type of web publishing will have a widespread and drastic effect on the development of the law. By changing the way court opinions are published, I believe the law itself can be transformed in the same way… Continue reading Law Is Free

“7. Librarians: A Keystone Species
In this chapter, we recount our anthropological studies of reference librarians, some of our favorite people. We discuss the hidden work they do, and we show how they are a “keystone species” in many of today's information ecologies. We feel librarians are more needed than ever as the volume and diversity of information on the Internet grows.”

The above is from a book called Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart

“7. Librarians: A Keystone SpeciesIn this chapter, we recount our anthropological studies of reference librarians, some of our favorite people. We discuss the hidden work they do, and we show how they are a “keystone species” in many of today's information ecologies. We feel librarians are more needed than ever as the volume and diversity… Continue reading

“7. Librarians: A Keystone Species
In this chapter, we recount our anthropological studies of reference librarians, some of our favorite people. We discuss the hidden work they do, and we show how they are a “keystone species” in many of today's information ecologies. We feel librarians are more needed than ever as the volume and diversity of information on the Internet grows.”

The above is from a book called Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL. Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL offers web developers a mixture of theoretical and practical information on creating web database applications. Using PHP and MySQL, two open source technologies that are often combined to develop web applications, the book offers detailed information on designing relational databases and… Continue reading Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL

Joel on Software

Joel on Software. “Whenever somebody gives you a spec for some new technology, if you can't understand the spec, don't worry too much. Nobody else is going to understand it, either, and it's probably not going to be important. This is the lesson of SGML, which hardly anyone used, until Tim Berners-Lee dumbed it down… Continue reading Joel on Software

Paolo

Paolo at eVectors wrote up his deployment of the Radio Community Server.  Every person at his company uses Radio on the desktop.  They publish personal weblogs to the Intranet via an RSS server.  They use Radio categories to publish topic specific weblogs.  Their Intranet server aggregates RSS feeds from the multiple employee weblogs (both their… Continue reading Paolo

Top Research Laboratories in Human-Computer Interaction

Useit.Com: Top Research Laboratories in Human-Computer Interaction. A core group of elite corporate research labs (and a few universities) defined the field of human-computer interaction and established much of whatever ease of use we now enjoy. With big labs disappearing, the future of HCI research is in jeopardy. [Tomalak's Realm]

Top 10 Tips For Usable Flash

Top 10 Tips For Usable Flash. Stephanie Reindel, ao-author of Flash 99% Good, summarizes her tips. Flash in and of itself is not the problem. After all, Flash is merely a tool, and a powerful tool at that. When used wisely, Flash can be an effective tool for engaging and retaining users. With it, designers… Continue reading Top 10 Tips For Usable Flash