Michael Wilson reviews outlining tools:  Inspiration, Mind Map Pro, and Tinderbox. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Wired.  An overview of the failure of 20% of UUNet's routers on Thursday.  This begs the question:  “Who is going to buy WorldCom?” [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

LawMeme (Yale) – Features: Law School in a Nutshell, Part II. Welcome back to Part II of Law School in a Nutshell, LawMeme's hacker-oriented introduction to reading legal documents and understanding the strange way in which lawyers look at the world. (You can go read Part I if you missed it at the time.) In… Continue reading LawMeme

LawMeme (Yale) – Features: Law School in a Nutshell, Part 1. Future lawyers spend three years in law school learning how to read and write legalese, but what serious geek has that kind of time to spare? This series will cover the basics of Legal; by the end of it, you should be ready to… Continue reading LawMeme

DRM Legislation As It Should Be. DRM Bill Proposed in US House “A bill introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives approaches digital rights management (DRM) from consumers' standpoint by ensuring that people who buy digital media can make backup copies and play them on whatever device they like without fear of breaking copyright… Continue reading DRM Legislation As It Should Be

Adaptive Path: User-Centered URL Design. Jesse James Garrett. But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools. They help orient users in your architecture, and can suggest whether other options are available. [Tomalak's Realm]

Tinderbox and NetNewsWire. Mark Bernstein: “Tinderbox’s default behavior is pretty good, but NetNewsWire has just added some new XML drag flavors that let Tinderbox understand whether you’re dragging a news feed (which you’d probably want to have updated automatically) or a news story (where you probably want to keep the summary in Tinderbox, and to… Continue reading Tinderbox and NetNewsWire

KM on a budget. (Is KM an allowed topic here?) Knowledge management has been knocked around in my organization for so long with so little understanding of what KM is. On the one hand, there is the belief that everything that transpires in your business is an archivable knowledge asset — hard copy ephemera such… Continue reading KM on a budget

Dilbert on interface design. xblog found these. Don't share them with your technology team. I designed the user interface myself. Mahjobbis Crappus [ia/ – news for information architects]

New York wireless zones. Anyone can sit in a corner connected to the world, thanks to a series of unobtrusive aerials throughout the park that allow anyone with a wireless enabled laptop to log on for an unlimited time. [Smart Mobs]