McGee's Musings

McGee's Musings. Quote: “To a large extent Beck and Cooper spend most of their time in this conversation talking past each other. Cooper nails the design problem when he points out that we don't have anyone operating in the role that a real-world architect adopts in bridging between the vague and ill-formed needs of a… Continue reading McGee's Musings

A Primer for Accessible Web Pages

A Primer for Accessible Web Pages. O'Reilly: A Primer for Accessible Web Pages “On December 21, 2000, the Access Board, a committee created by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), published regulations regarding the accessibility of Internet sites. These new regulations require that any web site built or procured by the Federal government must be accessible… Continue reading A Primer for Accessible Web Pages

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Things seem to be working properly now.

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Still Testing . . .  have to fix my FTP settings.

Business 2.0 – Magazine Article – The Case Against Knowledge Management

Business 2.0 – Magazine Article – The Case Against Knowledge Management. Quote: “Companies waste billions on knowledge management because they fail to figure out what knowledge they need, or how to manage it. In his latest book, Thomas A. Stewart explains how to answer both questions.” Comment: Nice piece actually. [Serious Instructional Technology]

Jeff Duntemann

Jeff Duntemann – Apple seems not to understand their real miracle: They tamed Unix and made it fit the consumer desktop. Instead of porting it as quickly as possible to the highly standard and cheap Intel PC hardware platform, Apple pisses its cash away creating oddball computers that look like postmodern toasters or (in this… Continue reading

Jeff Duntemann

Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor: “Steve Jobs and Apple Computer got most of the attention yesterday with their new-version iMac launch in San Francisco, but Microsoft's Bill Gates showed more interesting technology in his Consumer Electronics Show keynote in Las Vegas.” [Scripting News]

San Francisco Gate

San Francisco Gate – Editorial Op-Ed – On the Public's Right to Know /The day Ashcroft censored Freedom of Information. The president didn't ask the networks for television time. The attorney general didn't hold a press conference. The media didn't report any dramatic change in governmental policy. As a result, most Americans had no idea… Continue reading San Francisco Gate

showed off Mira today

More Future Tech – So Bill showed off Mira today, and Dave is speculating that Steve Jobs iMac announcement was not the end of the story. If you read the Quittner story, you'll remember Jobs talking about how the design of the new iMac was meant to fulfill the screen's “desire to be free”. If… Continue reading showed off Mira today