Home Nets: Keeping Up With the Joneses “Home networking is evolving from being deployed only by technically-included early adopters and is starting to be deployed by virtually all segments of the population, according to survey results released Wednesday by In-Stat/MDR. The survey found that 42 percent of those who already have home networks said that… Continue reading Home Nets: Keeping Up With the Joneses

Taxonomy's Role in Content Management. Article in eContent discussing the role of taxonomies for classifying content in a CMS. Interesting observations about what makes a good taxonomy: A good taxonomy, according to Weinstein, is one in which content is distributed evenly across the classification scheme. “The depth of the taxonomy should be relatively uniform,” he… Continue reading Taxonomy's Role in Content Management

Interface design bad practices. In Anti-Simplification – How to Make Life Harder for Users, SAP Design Guild shows some examples of unnecessarily complicated, careless, and incomplete designs in order to illustrate the kind of mistakes to avoid in UI design. Thanks, CrocoLyle [ia/ – news for information architects]

I'm getting some push back on the BooksIsFree idea. First, Eric noted he was already thinking of doing something similar using Movable Type, especially after he found a tutorial for MT explaining how the author of What Do I Know “uses categories to automate the display of the Featured and Recent book reviews”. I still think… Continue reading BooksIsFree

Speaking of NetGens and two-way communications, Memo to Brands: Surrender: “Empowered viewers armed with digital video recorders are zapping through Academy Award speeches, opening credits, and thousands of TV commercials — giggling all the way. And that is only the beginning of the end, says Laurie Coots, chief marketing officer at TBWAChiatDay. Disruptive advertising is… Continue reading Memo to Brands: Surrender

Robots Make the Rounds To Ease Hospitals' Costs. “Whenever a new patient is admitted to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center here, a four-foot eight-inch talking robot rolls up to the nurses' station nearest to the patient's room, bringing doses of whatever drugs the doctor has ordered…. 'When you look at the nursing and pharmacy labor… Continue reading Robots Make the Rounds To Ease Hospitals' Costs

Apache 2.0 Goes Live. The Apache Group Saturday capped three years of development and one year of beta with its release of the first generally available version of Apache 2.0. Key enhancements in Apache 2.0 include the capability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode, support for filtered I/O, IPv6 support, and a new… Continue reading Apache 2.0 Goes Live

New Radio feature:  shortcuts.  I updated Radio by right clicking on the Radio icon in the tray and selecting “update Radio.root”  I then went into prefs and enabled shortcuts.  I then went into the new menu items called “shortcuts” and put some items in.  This is the best way to include stories and major posts in… Continue reading Dave Winer

In response to the news that Oprah will be scaling back her book club, Steven over at Library Stuff has this to say: “Impact on libraries? I think that Oprah turned many ex-readers onto and non-readers back to the printed word. Even though she is not doing her thing anymore, many of her followers will… Continue reading Oprah will be scaling back her book club

I didn’t know about PHPBeginner.com until today. Looks pretty good. [inessential.com]