Movable Type templates tutorial. Be sure to check out Dorothea Salo's ongoing series on Movable Type templates and configuration. Also, my own Movable Type templates.  [dive into mark]

Teaching in the Wireless Cloud. Students equipped with mobile and wireless devices are reshaping the classroom environment. Spaces structured by static rows of computer desks, with screens or bulky monitors blocking views, are increasingly obsolete. Instead students can sit where they like, depending on the instructor's flexibility. A class can change quickly from a lecture… Continue reading Teaching in the Wireless Cloud

Card-based Classification Evaluation method. Donna Maurer shares her technique for evaluating classification schemes over at Boxes and Arrows. Ten minutes from twenty users means that it's pragmatic, and it addresses classification specifically, instead of being part of a prototype with other issues to evaluate. Here's what you need to do this kind of evaluation: A… Continue reading Card-based Classification Evaluation method

How to create a Controlled Vocabulary. Over at Boxes and Arrows, Karl Fast, Fred Leise, and Mike Steckel deliver a great “how-to” tutorial on creating controlled vocabularies. It's one thing to talk about how great CVs are, it's even better to show how to build them. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Ten Taxonomy Myths. The Montague Institute offers ten myths that need to be dispelled before embarking on a taxonomy project. They've got a *really* broad definition of taxonomy (think “classification system”) but the myths are still useful to deflate before your client or boss goes taxonomy-happy. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Teaching taxonomies: a hands-on approach. If you happen to have a Montague Institute membership, you might want to check out this article (full text with screenshots only available to members) discussing how to get a diverse team of professionals thinking about taxonomies. The full article features some excellent examples from their learning lab that show… Continue reading Teaching taxonomies: a hands-on approach

News.Com: Yahoo alights on new search site. The redesigned graphical interface and search service, called Yahoo Search, will have newfound prominence across the Web portal's collection of sites and will be marketed widely in traditional and online media starting Monday, according to Jeff Weiner, Yahoo's vice president of search. [Tomalak's Realm]

Redirecting the mob. I love the last bit of this piece by Mark Cooper that I'm quoting it extensively: The responsibilities of the peace movement are far too weighty to be squandered in sputtering and ultimately politically irrelevant feel-good acts of blocking traffic or ripping down fences at military bases. As war breaks out, the… Continue reading Redirecting the mob

Using PHP With LDAP. One of the reasons for PHP's immense popularity is its support for a wide variety of different Internet technologies. It is this support, coupled with the speed with which new language extensions get added to the source tree, that keeps PHP ahead of other competing languages in the same category, and… Continue reading Using PHP With LDAP

Blogs, scopes, and human routers. Back before there were blogs, my groupthink laboratory was the NNTP protocol, which I used at roughly four levels: workgroup (my new media development team at BYTE Magazine), department (the BYTE editorial team), company (all of BYTE), and world (BYTE's public newsgroups). I learned something then that was, and still… Continue reading Blogs, scopes, and human routers