by Tom | Mar 18, 2001 | General
Yet another great article by Clay ShirkyInteroperability, Not Standards. The message is that you’ve got to have a play / test / iterate period first before you define standards. This way you can really test alternatives. Otherwise you’re purely in the...
by Tom | Mar 15, 2001 | General
Interesting thought: You Own Your Own Metadata.Great article about Zipf’s Law, Heavy Tails, and the Death of Personalization. What is the Internet Genome Project? Very interesting, if it works. But like all DRM technologies it is pretty likely to be breakable....
by Tom | Mar 7, 2001 | General
Fascinating – the US army has one of the largest procurement exchanges already working online: Military Maneuvers.An extraordinary waste of time, but I can follow my old route to work in the DizzyCity. I always thought it was the big apple?Fascinating discussion...
by Tom | Mar 4, 2001 | General
Bizarrely slightly out of date, but still OK list of information architecture resources.Interesting 101: the Yale Style Manual.The good old WDVL comes up trumps on navigation as well. I haven’t used this since 1998.Very good article on information design....
by Tom | Feb 25, 2001 | General
Amazing that PayPal can get away with it. The US normally regulates this kind of stuff – amazing that it’s slipped under the radar.Gartner have definitely got the point about the internet and large companies. You ain’t seen nothing yet. Hype and...
