$100 Million Donation Helps to Establish a Genome Institute. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will establish an institute intended to apply knowledge of the human genome to the practice of medicine. By Andrew Pollack. [New York Times: Technology]

Practical IT Portfolio Management. My favorite approach to technology planning, with a link to a good primer on the subject. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Who gets what. iTunes: Death of Record Companies. Check out this short Business 2.0 piece showing how each dollar collected per song is divided up.  Artists get 12 cents out of a dollar.  The music download service (i.e. Apple) gets 40 cents.  That leaves 48 cents up for grab as music download industry emerges, expands, and… Continue reading Who gets what

Chris Collison: Making KM Practical.  Chris Collison, Centrica A key to successful KM is leadership behaviours.  These will determine whether organisational culture can change and whether it can be sustained without the centre. Chris' wife is a school teacher working in a primary school which has adapted accelerated learning techniques.  This involves a morning “brain gym”… Continue reading Chris Collison: Making KM Practical

Jon Thorne: Resourcing your knowledge intiative. Jon's session was very hands-on, group activity based so I don't really have notes.  This will be from memory. Jon's thesis is that it is much easier to get a KM initiative funded if you focus on the benefits of your work rather than the approaches used or the… Continue reading Jon Thorne: Resourcing your knowledge intiative

AIfIA Job Board. Looking for a job? The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture will soon be announcing the launch of its new Job Board. Here's a description: The AIfIA Job Board serves as a clearinghouse for position postings relating to information architecture and more broadly to information design, interaction design, and HCI. The Job Board… Continue reading AIfIA Job Board

Notes from Special Libaries 2003 Conference. I posted my notes from the SLA 2003 conference. It's rather lengthy and may only be of interest to those interested in what's happening with library information systems and services. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Unnecessary UI.  Jason Fried likes this dialog from OmniWeb 4.5 : I have to disagree. I think it's a nice feature that shouldn't be advertising itself, it should just happen automatically and silently. It's a permanent redirect, that's what it means, and designers of web browsers know that a lot better than users, so why… Continue reading Unnecessary UI

Good Experience: The Most Important User Experience Method. If you really want to become a better user experience practitioner, learn how to work with and change the organization. This is in contrast to most UX books and events, which are endless discussions of *methods*… [Tomalak's Realm]

Here we go again: .Net and standards. The platform may be based on XML (a web standard), but .NET's built-in controls and assistants apparently generate broken, mangled, noncompliant XHTML and CSS. There's a workaround, but it's useless. The platform must change. You can help. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]