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Getting things done using a Moleskine Pocket Reporter and a variation on the GTD system. I wonder if I’m disciplined enough to do this.
Author: Kars Alfrink
Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.
links for 2006-02-24
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Lindholm abandons all digital note taking and moves to fashionable Moleskines.
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“Social media platforms that neglect to put the customer first never fail to fail.” — Victor Lombardi of the MIG talks about their approach to helping large companies use social software.
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Excellent piece on Lego’s strategy behind the creation of the next generation Lego Mindstorms. Wanting Mindstorms to be for robotics what the iPod was for music; they asked their most fanatic users to come up with the specs for the new line of toys.
links for 2006-02-23
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The post-conference podcasts of this great event (shame I missed it) are now online.
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“Forget about the killer feature. Welcome to the age of the killer user-experience.” — Andreas Pfeiffer in Ubiquity on the success of Apple’s iPod.
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A proposal for a Tag Query Language – a standard way of requesting multiple tags to improve context.
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Via Edgar: a 37signals-esque app for teachers and such.
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D’oh – a cool remix of the London tube map gets pulled offline because some lawyers think it’s infringing copyright.
Crash
I finally got around to watching Crash on DVD yesterday evening and I must say it’s one of the best things I’ve seen in quite a while. The story revolves around a large group of seemingly unconnected characters whose lives get intertwined through a series of car crashes. Magnolia did this before expertly, this film does it even better perhaps – never giving you the feeling the run-ins between people are forced. The driving force and main subject of the film is racism, I’ve hardly ever seen the topic handled so thoughtfully. There’s a lot of ambiguity, no clear-cut good or bad guys and as a watcher you’re forced to constantly re-examine your preconceptions about the characters. In short – hugely enjoyable!
Remix en auteursrecht (open.info.nl)
“Onlangs verscheen een aardig artikel in het Tijdschrift voor Marketing van de hand van Ferry den Dopper, waarin een aantal web 2.0 aspecten worden uitgelegd aan marketeers. Eén van die aspecten is remix – het fenomeen waarbij één of meerdere websites worden gebruikt als basis voor een nieuwe dienst. Den Dopper staat daarbij heel kort stil bij de juridische implicaties van deze waardetoevoeging door derden. “Some rights reserved” schrijft hij en citeert daarbij het Creative Commons-initiatief.”
links for 2006-02-22
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“The City of London today announced plans to install a dense and comprehensive wi-fi internet network throughout London’s Square Mile financial district,” — That’s it, I’m moving.
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Flickr being used for advertising. When iit’s your own stuff, its’not allowed, but if it’s you being enthousiastic about someone else’s product – is it wrong to post about it?
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Ilse Media selects SixApart’s Typepad as their tool for a new blogging service. They can do more stuff, such as moderate comments. (Dear god, they couldn’t do that before?) Progress!
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Post to and read del.icio.us, Flickr and upcoming.org in a mobile friendly format.
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A nice piece describing usability challenges for designers of Rich Internet Applications.
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“The web is the social application.” With emphasis on “is”.
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Peter Merholz in good form, explaining why web 2.0 isn’t about blogging and saying that “it’s something of a travesty that “elite design agencies” remain so ignorant of […] “web 2.0.””
Opgehokte raven
Geweldig nieuws uit Groot-Brittannië – de koninklijke raven zijn opgehokt. Onlangs las ik een mooi artikel in mijn favoriete blad Fortean Times, waarin werd verteld hoe de zes raven van de Tower of London door de Yeoman raven master worden verzorgd en beschermd. Een oude voorspelling zegt dat als alle raven de Tower verlaten het Britse koninkrijk ten onder zal gaan. Nu staat de vogelgriep voor de deur, dus gaan Branwen, Hugine, Munin, Gwyllum, Thor and Baldrick op stok! Iets wat de raven master liever niet doet:
“Although we don’t like having to bring the Tower ravens inside, we believe it is the safest thing to do for their own protection, given the speed that the virus is moving across Europe.”
links for 2006-02-21
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It’s been a while since I’ve read about a PS2 game that actually sounds interesting. No surprise this one’s from the creators of ICO. To buy.
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Social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia goes live. I was already in the beta, and liked it (especially the look & feel), but haven’t made the switch from del.icio.us yet. Why? One: no automated posting to my blog and two: no way to manage (delete, merge, spl
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Old(ish) article on a few mobile social networking services. Plazes is also mentioned. Nice overview of an area that isn’t getting much attention (yet).
Plazes sidebar redesign
Plazes, my favourite underhyped European web application have updated their sidebar. I like the fact that they changed the ranges shown (here, 1 km, 3 km, 10 km, 50 km). Now I can see all the way to Utrecht from Amsterdam. I also like the new “friends somewhere else” section (see the screenshot). They’ve also clustered people at the same plaze, and (all the way at the bottom) have now included a tag cloud-esque city list. Very web 2.0!
Nerd wannabe
Damn. Nerdiger dan Tom, maar lang niet zo nerdig als Edgar. 32 punten: “Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.” Hoe durven ze?!