by Tom | Apr 9, 2002 | General
Don’t Buy Hollywood’s Broadband Script. Good debunking of the Hollywood anti-digital stand. Hollywood declared videos illegal when they first came on the scene. They now take $11bn a year, around half the industry’s revenues. The same will happen...
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
The whole grid computing initiative, e.g. the Globus Project, is very much a large-scale way of utilising the enormous quantity of wasted resources within BigCos. It might just work.
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
Boxes and Arrows: Taking the “you” out of user: My experience using personas. Thoughtful piece about using personas to ensure that the end-user of the system is accurately designed, rather than some cheerleader or devils advocate of any particular piece of...
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
Boxes and Arrows: ASIST IA summit. Great collection of summaries of sessions and links to presntations, poster sessions, etc.
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
The Gentry, Misjudged as Neighbors.This seems relatively obvious: gentrification doesn’t drive out poorer residents as a) the area is getting nicer and b) the longer they stay, the more the supply/demand differential rises and therefore the more they get when...
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
Plastic: New Pay-For-Play Music Subscription Services Reviewed. Conclusion: they sort of suck.