Semantic search project for Moveable Type. From Ben and Mena Maciej Ceglowski has built a prototype for a semantic search engine. To adapt it to function as a Movable Type plugin, he needs sample content that he can test against. If successful, the search feature would let you do a keyword search, and get back… Continue reading Semantic search project for Moveable Type

Collaborative Knowledge Networks. Gunnar pointed me to Deloitte Consulting report, Collaborative Knowledge Networks: Driving Workforce Performance Through Web-enabled Communities, which I'm reading today. (Warning, lengthy regisration process to download the PDF). A lot of research reports available there for free if you register. This one is helping me with a KM article I'm writing presently.… Continue reading Collaborative Knowledge Networks

Tips for contextual interviews from Adaptive Path. Mike Kuniavsky offers practical advice on running a “nondirected interview” in his latest: Face to Face With Your Users: Running a Nondirected Interview. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Warren Buffett's revenge. A timely new book about the Sage of Omaha's management practices shows how, after Enron and the dot-com bubble, the multibillionaire was right about everything. [Salon.com]

The Scorecard of Evil. By the way, if you've been trying to keep track of the amazingly evil (and amazingly uncommented-on) doings of the Bush Restoration, check out The Wage Slave Scorecard of Evil One stop shopping for pointers to the execrable, the egregious, and the utterly outrageous. [Nobody Knows Anything]

Jef Raskin: direct interfaces: This link points to a text editor for Mac classic/native which illustrates interfaces principles from his recent writings. Here's the manual, a review, and the MacCentral column which hipped me to this. I haven't gotten deeply into it yet, but as we move into portable devices we need new approaches to… Continue reading Untitled

L.M. Orchard commits filesystem sacrilege. Here's Leslie Michael Orchard's heretical idea: I'll be burned at the next stake over from Charles when the time comes, for this filesystem heresy. Just the other night, a co-worker was asking me about how diligent I was in organizing my email. I told her, “Not at all. I leave… Continue reading L.M. Orchard commits filesystem sacrilege

the radicals at the economist: The flood of free content on the internet has shown that most creators do not need incentives that stretch across generations. To reward those who can attract a paying audience, and the firms that support them, much shorter copyrights would be enough. The 14-year term of the original 18th-century British… Continue reading Untitled

Business-centred design: Designing web sites that sell. When designing a persuasive architecture, we have to understand and account for every step in the buying process and design for effective calls to action, even if this action is simply to move on to the next step in the process… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

uiweb.com: How to run a design critique. In the early and middle phases of a project, teams need a way to understand and explore the current direction of the design. The challenge is to create the openness needed for good ideas to surface, while simultaneously cultivating the feedback and criticism necessary to resolve open issues.… Continue reading How to run a design critique