links for 2006-09-29

Not safe for work, but pret­ty inter­est­ing: an inter­view with the guy / girl who set up a muse­um in SL exhibit­ing screen­shots of avatar’s privates.

Joshua Porter points out that a lot of stuff that’s known under the name of web design is actu­al­ly more like web devel­op­ment. Design­ing for the web should be about design­ing for end-users not (like devel­op­ment) about solv­ing tech­ni­cal problems.

Col­league Peter con­tem­plates on what hap­pens when you add process attrib­ut­es to pat­terns. This could poten­tial­ly be a very pow­er­ful way of doing bot­tom-up planning.

A first look at the future inter­net of things. Ques­tions the preval­ing opti­mism around the new social­i­ty between objects and humans. Good even hand­ed criticism.

About the edu­ca­tion­al val­ue of games: “[V]ideo games are [not] good teach­ers, but […] play­ing good video games is often good learn­ing”. Also con­tains some inter­est­ing thoughts on games being at the fore front of IxD.

Dan Brown describes how he went about chang­ing a com­pa­ny’s atti­tude towards con­tent man­age­ment and a new CMS. Short but sweet, nice and practical.