User Interfaces for Physical Spaces. MAYA Design and the IA Institute are hosting a day long workshop User Interfaces for Physical Spaces on Monday, December 12 in Pittsburgh. The workshop will showcase MAYA's work redesigning the physical and information space of the Carnegie Library…if you haven't had the chance to look at MAYA's slides from… Continue reading User Interfaces for Physical Spaces

Recordings from the IA Summit Redux in Washington, DC. This Saturday the DC-IA group organized an IA Summit Redux where many summit sessions were reviewed and discussed. You may download complete audio recordings of the discussions (on tagging, deliverables, theory and web 2.0) from livlab.com. Many thanks to Dan Brown and the DC area IAs… Continue reading Recordings from the IA Summit Redux in Washington, DC

Diebold Doesn't Get It. This quote sums up nicely why Diebold should not be trusted to secure election machines: David Bear, a spokesman for Diebold Election Systems, said the potential risk existed because the company's technicians had intentionally built the machines in such a way that election officials would be able to update their systems… Continue reading Diebold Doesn't Get It

The politics of presentation software. Presentation software has been stuck in neutral forever. Web applications, however, are firing on all cylinders. Some say Word and Excel are about to be Web 2.0 roadkill. Not me. The browser can't yet substitute for those applications. But for PowerPoint? Any day now. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] [Jon's Radio]

Google celebrates the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Robert Quattlebaum: XMPP Client Daemon. There are many Jabber clients out there for just about every platform imaginable. This is often cited as one of the strengths of Jabber, but it does have serious drawbacks; namely end-user confusion. I'm starting to think that the approach that nearly all of these programs take is incorrect. .… Continue reading Robert Quattlebaum: XMPP Client Daemon

Barbaro seems to be doing well so far, after his surgery today.

A Desperate Effort to Save a Derby-Winning Colt. Barbaro's racing career is over, but a valiant and costly effort was made Sunday to repair his right hind leg. By JOE DRAPE. [NYT > Home Page]

$4b later, drugs still flow in Colombia. TUMACO, Colombia — Six years and $4 billion into the US-backed campaign to wipe out cocaine at its source, Colombia appears to be producing more coca than when the campaign started, according to US government estimates. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

I thought this was a cute picture, and especially apropos with our recent rains.