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Excellent description of a Backpack setup for use with the GTD system. Inspirational (if you’re a GTD-cultist).
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A good case study of bringing a wiki into the corporate arena. Doesn’t cover much that I didn’t already know (all the wiki virtues are described) but of interest because of the real-world success-story.
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Short but sweet piece by Anderson on the wisdom of crowds, co-creation and user-generated content (or “authentic media”, as Powazek would have it.)
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“design is communication! […] Design encompasses much more than you think. If you are still clinging to the idea that design is merely decoration, or that something has to be visually appealing to be successful, you are as thick as the mud you’ve been
Month: July 2006
links for 2006-07-07
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A neat app that visualizes your iTunes library. Probably too heavy to run on my poor iBook, but cool none the less.
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Macromedia mocks up a RIA that writes to RSS-like file formats and calls it a marriage of the read/write web and Flex 2. I don’t know — it comes across as a custom browser to me.
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Vander Wal would prefer to be called a technosocial architect and believes we should be focussing on the role information plays in people’s lives, not on the applications through which they get that information. I wonder how this compares to the designe
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The first in an excellent two-part interview with game design god Warren Spector: he’s firmly entrenched in the Peter Moulineaux school of design, where a game should be a series of interesting choices.
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The latest AP newsletter contains an interview with Michael Bierut, mostly on the role of visual design in UX, politics and design and being a conscious designer.
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Well known, but somehow I’d never bookmarked this one. Tog’s first principles should be observed by all IxDs.
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Google’s PayPal-killer prohibits you from using its services for selling occult goods. The question is of course, will they enforce it?
Plazes gets a major overhaul
My favourite social web app gets another makeover, and this time it’s major.
The most important change I’ve noticed is that they’ve ditched the buddy list altogether (which was getting impractical due to large amounts of users) and have started focussing more on maps. This is a change I can only applaud; as now it’s even clearer plazes is all about location, location, location.
links for 2006-07-05
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Shallow piece on upcoming Mobile Web Best Practices recommendation of the W3C-MWI.
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Emerce once again proves they’re clueless by including talk about Flash Lite in a piece that’s supposedly on mobile web standards & best practices.
First few Florence shots
Before getting ready to watch the Germany vs. Italy match, I’ve managed to sort through the photos of our first day in Florence. You can go here to start at the first new one in the set. There’s around twenty.
There’s a disproportionate amount of street art shots in this batch, here’s the one I like the most:
