Transit Cops Turn to Music to Fight Crime “Boston transit police have enlisted the late American composers George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa in their fight against crime. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police are piping in a mix of show tunes and marches at a city subway station in order to drive away the large… Continue reading Transit Cops Turn to Music to Fight Crime

Library Patrons As Mobile, Dynamic Communities. Here's an interesting point made by Anthony Townsend and based on a quote from Howard Rheingold that illustrates our current culture of information shifting. “There is some really interesting work being done. Howard Rheingold–who's known for his earlier work on virtual communities–referred to what's called 'swarming behavior.' This is the idea… Continue reading Library Patrons As Mobile, Dynamic Communities

Information architecture: using card sorting for web classification design: September 23, 2002 issue of New Thinking. Quote: “Card sorting is an excellent approach to help you choose your classifications. It can help shortcut long, tedious and often fruitless debate. It delivers classifications that people would actually choose, not what they say they would choose. Because… Continue reading Information architecture: using card sorting for web classification design: September 23, 2002 issue of New Thinking

Boxes and Arrows: Defining Information Architecture Deliverables – WebmasterBase.com. Quote: “One of the hottest topics these days in Information Architecture circles is documentation. This is probably partly because the IA's role is so ill defined. Our jobs sit perched between engineering and graphic design: go too far in one direction, we're doing the coding, go… Continue reading Boxes and Arrows: Defining Information Architecture Deliverables – WebmasterBase.com

A few comments about John Robb's liking of digital dashboards. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]

PARC Solutions: Enhanced Thumbnails. Enhanced Thumbnails is a proprietary visualization technique that makes it easier to find relevant content quickly within documents and document collections… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

'The Great Tax Wars': Birth, Death and the Other One. Steven R. Weisman has reconstructed the largely forgotten history of the progressive income tax, which only came into existence in the modern era. By Robert J. Samuelson. [New York Times: Books]

Jevon MacDonald has developed a digital dashboard mock-up that he likes. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Newsday (LI New York) – Now They Check the Books You Read. The Bush administration's reliance on acronyms with public-relations punch was apparent as early as last October when, still reeling from the events of Sept. 11, it proposed and Congress swiftly passed the USA Patriot Act (“The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate… Continue reading Now They Check the Books You Read

Orlando Sentinel: “After investing $273 million, NASA is canceling a cutting-edge launch-control computer system for the space shuttle that is over budget, behind schedule and too expensive to operate.” (A few paragraphs later) “The CLCS program began in 1997 as an effort to upgrade KSC's 1970s-vintage system.” Here's my question. In the 1970s, computers didn't… Continue reading Orlando Sentinel