BusinessWeek on Blogs. BusinessWeek Online has just produced a special report on The Social Web, and the best article of the bunch is Jane Black’s piece on weblogs, titled, The Wild World of Open Source Media. Jane succinctly describes the thrall of blogging as well as its impact on the wider media world, using Salam Pax and the resignations at…
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Google IPO Cash: Buy Out…
Google IPO Cash: Buy Out Moreover?. : So what would Google do with the money if it launches an IPO? The speculation continues: it may want to expand its Google News… [PaidContent.org]
CSS based Tabs (and simple…
CSS based Tabs (and simple too by gum). Tabs with CSS. Joshua Kaufman – CSS Tabs. How to create tabbed navigation with CSS. I really need to make a CSS category. [High Context] Excellent. I had just been wondering about this very thing this morning.[Curiouser and curiouser!]
The problem in publishing
The problem in publishing Anne Holland writes about the problem of finding good writers at ContentBlog: Everyone at the editorial roundtable I attended seemed to be focusing on how to get more from a tight editorial team when you can’t hire more people and the content bar is constantly rising. So when I said, “Oh my problem is hiring people…
Getting up to speed on…
Getting up to speed on wikis, part 2. Last Thursday’s post on wikis generated quite a bit of good feedback. Comments from a number of readers offered pointers to more wiki related materials. Doug Holton, a graduate student at Vanderbilt, offers these three wiki-specific entries from his blog (which looks to be a useful reference in general): Here are some…
Web Style Guide [1]. Lynch…
Web Style Guide. Lynch and Horton have apparently released the fully text of their book titled Web Style Guide (2nd edition). To quote: The guidance we offer in Web Style Guide has always been grounded on the functional aspects of design. In… [Column Two]
Lufthansa Says Achtzig, Bitte! [1]….
Lufthansa Says Achtzig, Bitte!. Lufthansa liked the Boeing Connexion trial so much, they’re equipping the fleet: 80 Boeing and Airbus jets will have Connexion service by the end of 2004 for intercontinental flights at $25 to $35 per flight. In the trial, business and first class had Ethernet jacks, and the whole plane had Wi-Fi. However, Boeing was able to…
Getting up to speed on…
Getting up to speed on wikis. Wikis are now on the radar screens of many of us grappling with using technology effectively in knowledge work. Ward Cunningham’s book,The Wiki Way:Quick Collaboration on the Web, has been on my bookshelf for some time now and I’ve visited a handful of public wikis. Lately there’s been a spate of posts in the…
reate documents of some kind…
Six Tips for Improving Your Design Documentation. “If you are a designer or product planner, you probably create documents of some kind to capture your design decisions and solutions. Documentation is a crucial component of successful product planning and implementation, so it’s important that it communicates as effectively as possible. Good organization, complete information, and clear writing are, of course,…
Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style…
Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. “In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall… the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint? And…