An empirical comparison of the usability for novice and expert searchers of a textual and a graphic interface to an art-resource database. Quote: “Differences between novices and experts approached significance . . . “ Comment: The article is interesting, but I believe that any statistician would tell you that such a statement is bunk. Something… Continue reading An empirical comparison of the usability for novice and expert searchers of a textual and a graphic interface to an art-resource database
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Linking Poor Performance to Working After School
Linking Poor Performance to Working After School. Quote: “The Third International Mathematics and Science Survey, where low exam scores of American students stir such great concern, found that 55 percent of American 12th graders work three hours or more on a normal school day. The proportion for other nations is 18 percent, on average. To… Continue reading Linking Poor Performance to Working After School
News Industry Text Format
News Industry Text Format. News Industry Text Format (NITF) is a XML language for news articles. The body of the article is a free-format using HTML-like tags for markup. NITF's main contribution is a format for article metadata. [More Like This WebLog]
Adam Curry
Adam Curry is on to something. George Gilder claimed that bandwidth would become the least expensive computing resource through a doubling rate of 12 months (mostly focused on advances in Fiber optics) as compared with Moore's 18 month doubling rate. Everything would be centralized George said. Java would rule. Sun would emerge dominant with its… Continue reading Adam Curry
Deconstructing Cisco.com
Internet World: Deconstructing Cisco.com. Louis Rosenfeld. There really is no way for someone like me to complete a purchase using the Cisco.com Web site and no explanation as to why this was the case. But there were lots of special cases and distinctions to confuse me. [Tomalak's Realm]
Techies vs. Telcos
Fortune: Techies vs. Telcos. There's no question something is wrong. The phone and cable companies are gatekeepers of Internet service now because they own the pipes coming into most of our businesses and homes. But they've done a poor job of turning those pipes into pipelines. [Tomalak's Realm]
Doc Searls notes
Doc Searls notes that MORE, a fourteen-year-old program (roughly) runs quite a bit faster on today's hardware. That of course is a demo of Moore's Law, our friend, as is the other big law that drives all computer and software development (it also begins with a M.) MORE has one of the more flexible product… Continue reading Doc Searls notes
OK Ray, I'll Bite…. One of my biggest complaints about Groove has been its closed architecture. Once you get in the “Groove,” it is hard to get in or out to any other arcthitecture. Some of that closed mentality changed today.
Today Groove announced
OK Ray, I'll Bite…. One of my biggest complaints about Groove has been its closed architecture. Once you get in the “Groove,” it is hard to get in or out to any other arcthitecture. Some of that closed mentality changed today. Today Groove announced it was going to allow Groove users to exchange instant messages… Continue reading OK Ray, I'll Bite…. One of my biggest complaints about Groove has been its closed architecture. Once you get in the “Groove,” it is hard to get in or out to any other arcthitecture. Some of that closed mentality changed today.
Today Groove announced
Shamelessly Lame Award: And the “Shamelessly Lame” award this week once again goes to Microsoft for the MSN lockout in the name of “standards.”
“Microsoft has said it has reopened the redesigned MSN site to rival browser makers, but as of Friday morning, the most recent browsers from Mozilla.org and Opera Software still could not access MSN. Netscape users also continued to report access problems.”
Here is what Dan Gillmore's
Shamelessly Lame Award: And the “Shamelessly Lame” award this week once again goes to Microsoft for the MSN lockout in the name of “standards.” “Microsoft has said it has reopened the redesigned MSN site to rival browser makers, but as of Friday morning, the most recent browsers from Mozilla.org and Opera Software still could not… Continue reading Shamelessly Lame Award: And the “Shamelessly Lame” award this week once again goes to Microsoft for the MSN lockout in the name of “standards.”
“Microsoft has said it has reopened the redesigned MSN site to rival browser makers, but as of Friday morning, the most recent browsers from Mozilla.org and Opera Software still could not access MSN. Netscape users also continued to report access problems.”
Here is what Dan Gillmore's
iPod-The 5 Gig Floppy Disk: Who gives a crap about syncing with iTunes? The whole point of the iPod is that it's a 5 Gig hard drive.
Just like a mobile hard drive I want to connect it to other computers, like my Sony Vaio, which has firewire built in just like my iBook and G4 Cube. I want to connect it to my car so I not only have my music on the road, but also ny phone book that will be used by the car's cellphone, my GPS maps with my preferred routes are stored on it as well. Most of all I want to connect to other iPod's. I'm sure we can find a way to turn the 'jog wheel' into a useful interface for whatever software we'll have to hack apart on the inside.
I live 5 minutes walk from my office
iPod-The 5 Gig Floppy Disk: Who gives a crap about syncing with iTunes? The whole point of the iPod is that it's a 5 Gig hard drive. Just like a mobile hard drive I want to connect it to other computers, like my Sony Vaio, which has firewire built in just like my iBook and… Continue reading iPod-The 5 Gig Floppy Disk: Who gives a crap about syncing with iTunes? The whole point of the iPod is that it's a 5 Gig hard drive.
Just like a mobile hard drive I want to connect it to other computers, like my Sony Vaio, which has firewire built in just like my iBook and G4 Cube. I want to connect it to my car so I not only have my music on the road, but also ny phone book that will be used by the car's cellphone, my GPS maps with my preferred routes are stored on it as well. Most of all I want to connect to other iPod's. I'm sure we can find a way to turn the 'jog wheel' into a useful interface for whatever software we'll have to hack apart on the inside.
I live 5 minutes walk from my office