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Easy Does It. Scott W. Ambler talks about simple tools like index cards and white boards for software development — when they are valuable, when not, and how to combine with formal tools. Appears in Software Development Magazine. Simple tools are inclusive—with them, even your project stakeholders can actively participate in your project. Simple tools… Continue reading Easy Does It

Cool Design Won't Save a Dud Product. Interesting article in Business 2.0 about industrial design. Discusses the flagrant use of design, post-iMac, to pretty up products that lack well-conceived design or to sell designy products that are inappropriate for a brand. No amount of fancy design work can save a product that has too many… Continue reading Cool Design Won't Save a Dud Product

Boxes and Arrows. B&A launches! Boxes and Arrows is the definitive source for the complex task of bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape. There are various titles and professions associated with this undertaking—information architecture, information design, interaction design, interface design—but when we looked at the work that we were actually doing, we found… Continue reading Boxes and Arrows

Microsoft re-architects Windows for Personal Knowledge Mgmt. [Article] Microsoft is gutting its OS to be more like a huge SQL database of data & documents, so eventually someone can (for example) search for all interactions with a client across email, receipts, timesheets and Word files, and get relevant results. Who said search is dead? (…… Continue reading Microsoft re-architects Windows for Personal Knowledge Mgmt

New York Times – Editorial Op-Ed: by Anthony Lewis free registration required Taking Our Liberties. The war against terrorism will go on indefinitely, President Bush has warned, seeking the enemy around the world. Already American forces are committed to the Philippines, Georgia and Yemen. Iraq may be next. Heavy fighting continues in Afghanistan. War without… Continue reading New York Times

Windows Installer for jabberd Server. The open-source jabberd server now has an installer for win32 systems. [JabberCentral]

Globe and Mail: Intranets become 'intramess'. Many intranets fail to live up to their potential because they don't have the content that is supposed to help people perform their work, and users often can't find what they're looking for even if it's on the sites, says Bobbie Merilees, a Vancouver-based consultant who advises companies on… Continue reading Intranets become 'intramess'

digitalMASS: Antipiracy bill a high-tech threat. Millions of people already steal their products with digital assistance, and the problem is getting worse. But the proposed alternative would turn our personal computers, and all our other personal technologies, into digital busybodies that probably would forbid even legal copying. [Tomalak's Realm]

McGee's graduate level KM course. Quote: “I'm introducing a course on Knowledge Management at the Kellogg School in April. You can see the syllabus here, which is part of a Manila site I am using to manage most of the course development. One item that I thought would be of more general interest is my… Continue reading McGee's graduate level KM course

Lies. Who cares who is in charge? Your papers, please? [Mark Bernstein]