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July 18, 2004
Skinner Box Web Design
Jeffrey Veen on Damage in Web Design:
Bad design is based on the arrogant and extremely difficult attempts to modify user behavior. Good design derives innovation from existing user behavior. Guess which one succeeds more often?
Veen points out in the article that trying to modify user behavior will result in the user leaving your site for an alternative or routing around the perceived damage. There is no lid on the bad web design skinner box.
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July 16, 2004
Sir Tim of Web
Creator of the web turns knight:
Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the world wide web, has received his knighthood from the Queen.
The “father of the web”, who already has an OBE, went to Buckingham Palace to get his reward for “services to the global development of the internet”.
Well deserved!
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June 5, 2004
Nancy White’s Blog
Nancy White recently launched the Full Circle Associates Online Interaction & Community Blog. Nancy is an excellent resource on online community and its intersection with knowledge management. Her blog is definitely worth checking out.
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April 16, 2004
Gmail
Tim O’Reilly has deconstructed all the hoohaw over the new Gmail service from Google: The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It’s Bogus.
I’ve been trying out the beta for a few days and I’m pretty impressed with the features it has and with the quality of the links (sponsored and otherwise) that they discretely display when you view a message. Check out what O’Reilly has to say if you are still concerned about it.
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April 7, 2004
The Honorable Blog
Spotted via David Weinberger: the governor of Wisconsin is writing his own weblog.
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April 6, 2004
New Association Weblog
I saw over on Jeff De Cagna’s site that the Air Conditioning Contractors of America have launched a weblog for their organization.
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February 24, 2004
Mono Experiment
Jeffrey McManus, who works for eBay, wrote a command-line utility that fetches the current eBay categories and tells you what has changed since the last time you downloaded it. The reason I’m posting about it here is that Jeffrey is asking folks to test out the C# script on a Mono/Linux platform.
I spoke a little bit about Mono at the M&T conference last month, so for those of you who were at the session, this is an example of how the .NET framework is being ported to other platforms. It may eventually be feasible to run most .NET apps on Linux as easily as on Windows.
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October 31, 2003
Bad Panther
Wired News: Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in Panther. Sounds like a nasty bug in the latest Mac OS X version. If you run OS X you should probably hold off upgrading for a while, especially if you have firewire data storage devices.
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October 22, 2003
iTunes
I downloaded iTunes for Windows from Apple today. Really nice interface, easy to load new music from CD. I’m looking forward to putting together some playlists.
If only there were some way I could carry all these songs around with me….
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September 30, 2003
The Server of Amontillado
The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn’t missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn’t find the server. Working with Novell Inc. (stock: NOVL), IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by maintenance workers.
Thanks to Vince on the ASAE tech list for the link and the Poe reference.
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