Designing for the customer – “why and for whom” More on metrics, designing for people, and why our industry seems so focused on tools – on how instead of why and for whom. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Author: fioritto
Get the OJR by RSS
Get the OJR by RSS Seems like publications should start looking at services like Feedfinder to see if people have setup RSS feeds of their content. If people are setting up scraped feeds they need to get with the program and craft their own. I love Online Journalism Review, and read it nearly daily. Unfortunately, this site still does not…
Turning Search Into a Science
Turning Search Into a Science If you’re looking for scientific information on the Web, Google might not be the best choice. Many researchers instead turn to Scirus. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News: Top Stories]
Lake Michigan Run
I went on a 5 mile run along Lake Michigan at lunch today and the wind was a killer. The forecast said to expect 30 mph winds from the NW. I headed north and couldn’t wait to turn around and reap the benefits of that tailwind. If you are a runner and are visiting Chicago the 18-mile path along Lake…
New Dyson Vacum Cleaner
I remember seeing a commercial a few months ago for the Dyson vacuum cleaner. The inventor, James Dyson, was tired of the lousy suction his machine produced so he set off to create something better. I was in the middle of researching innovation and the intriguing part of the story is that he produced over 5,000 prototypes before he came…
Scoop Ready To Launch
Scoop Ready To Launch : Some bit of news which came out of the story below (the story on NetContent…) The company is ready to launch a news search subscription service, not unlike HighBeam, Hoovers.com and others, for that matter, targeting the individual user… The site/service, called Scoop, at Scoop.com, is using the underlying Intellisearch technology, which NetContent bought a…
Selling Subscriptions via Google Ads
Selling Subscriptions via Google Ads : An interesting case study on NetContent, a content syndication/research service which competes with the likes of HighBeam, Hoovers.com and others… Again, goes on to show that these SME focused services will be undercutting the likes of Lexis-Nexis and Factiva in a big way soon…again, goes with my theme of the rise of the individual…
Information Overload: The Future Of
Information Overload: The Future Of Search And Information Access The online universe is evolving rapidly and many critical changes are taking place right now. Information overload is reaching, as long forecasted, new heights. It is becoming increasingly difficult to manage it all, or even to decide what to discard and what not. In the end, lots of relevant information is…
Social Enterprise from Knowledge Jolt With Jack
Great wrap up of several posts on social enterprise from Jack Vinson’s “Knowledge Jolt With Jack“. The enterprise is social, as we have heard from a number of writers, such as Etienne Wenger on communities or John Seely Brown on The Social Life of Information. Jon Udell of InfoWorld follows this with an article on The social enterprise that discusses…
Topix.net and KeepMedia
Topix.net has categorized the KeepMedia archive and added their sources to their topic taxonomy. As described in the post, they are able to provide context and deeper research links to their topics. I need to review how the premium sources from KeepMedia match up with their local news focus.