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Bizarrely slightly out of date, but still OK list of information architecture resources.Interesting 101: the Yale Style Manual.The good old WDVL comes up trumps on navigation as well.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...
by Tom | Feb 20, 2001 | General
After having read the code book by Simon Singh, the idea of an unbreakable code is an interesting one!This will bear reading a couple of times, I think: Concept Map Software.Useful list of IA software Strange.
by Tom | Feb 16, 2001 | General
Useful article on what Interaction Architects might deliver: Defining IA Deliverables.Interesting anti-rant on Flash.I guess I’m not a user then: Species of help desk callers.Some great gee whizz graphs.Microsoft’s plan for domination of the digital music...
by Tom | Feb 15, 2001 | General
Extraordinary. Someone else thinks he owns the web.A funky and rather silly magazine: Mappa.Mundi.Interesting article from a Napster bod: Why Gnutella Can’t Scale.ISPs can now put ads directly on your screen. Isn’t this like putting up a new ad on a...
by Tom | Feb 14, 2001 | General
Cracking quote in this NY Times piece:Only three obstacles stand in its way: the laws of physics, the laws of supply and demand, and the laws of Mexico. There may be a fourth: It would take many billions of dollars in American investment in Mexico to make it...
by Tom | Feb 13, 2001 | General
Extraordinary picture of earthlights from space.Maybe worth checking out this as it progresses: Small Pieces Public Draft.Booz.Allen article that mirrors my Rapid Pilot idea. I’m not quite sure of either the word hyperinnovation or of iterative capital. However,...
