THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: October 30, 2004
[August 31, 2004]
Bill Thompson: "Forgive me for saying, but those who choose 'internet' over 'Internet' are as wrong as those who would visit london, meet the queen or go for a boat trip down the river thames. The fact is that the Internet is the name of a specific collection of networks, while internet is a generic term for two or more connected networks. The two are as distinct as planet Earth and the earth around your begonias, and they should be distinguished in print."
[August 29, 2004]
Dana Blankenhorn: "If you want a civilization, online or offline, then you have a responsibility to stand for civilized behavior in a civilized way. Ethics are a wall built brick-by-brick, and we're each just a brick in the wall."
Daniel Gray: How I (Finally?) Beat Spyware
Writing good ALT text
"Efharisto, Athens, for coupling the ancient with the new, putting up with years of jarring construction, spending billions beyond your budget, and giving us a glimpse of your future as a sophisticated, modern city."
[August 28, 2004]
HTTP Status Codes
Ephemera: Photos by Derek Powazek
[August 26, 2004]
Paul Chin: "Putting a new system into a production environment without providing your users with training is like washing a marble hallway without putting down a 'wet floor' sign; some will get through it unscathed, some will stumble, and some will pay unwitting homage to Buster Keaton and land flat on their faces."
[August 23, 2004]
DNA technique protects against 'evil' emails: "A technique originally designed to analyse DNA sequences is the latest weapon in the war against spam. An algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam."
"Video gaming graphics technology is set to transform how BBC weather is done."
[August 22, 2004]
Information Architecture Heuristics: "Five areas that a user is most likely to interact with a site's information architecture."
Text Email Newsletter (TEN) Standard: "This standard is designed to ease navigation of plain text email newsletters by all readers, including those using special access technologies."
Olympians largely barred from blogging
D. Weinberger: "How do people take notes these days?"
[August 20, 2004]
D. Keith Robinson: "It seems that many blogs share a similar layout and often it's not seen as a good thing. If the layout works, original or not, it was probably the right way to go."
aDesigner - accessibility simulator: "The aDesigner is a disability simulator that helps Web designers ensure that their pages are accessible and usable by the visually impaired. Voice browsers and screen readers read aloud the text on Web pages and are used by visually impaired people. However, these devices are less effective with certain kinds of content, such as highly graphical material. Web developers can use aDesigner to test the accessibility and usability of Web pages for low-vision and blind people."
[August 18, 2004]
It's Just the 'internet' Now: "Wired News will no longer capitalize the 'I' in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net."
Howard Rheingold: "Now, if you have a telephone, you can get a free encyclopedia. You have access to the world's knowledge. Knowing how to use that is a barrier. The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who don't, but those who know how to use what they have and those who don't."
Max Design: Web standards - more than just 'table-free sites'
[August 17, 2004]
Polite computers win users' hearts and minds: "Computer glitches would be a lot less annoying if the machines were programmed to acknowledge errors gracefully when something goes wrong, instead of merely flashing up a brusque 'you goofed' message. The trick, according to a researcher who has analysed users' responses to their computers, is to make operating systems and software more 'civilised' by saying sorry more often. That way people won't feel they are stupid or at fault, so they become less apprehensive about using computers, and perhaps more productive and creative."
The Economist: "The ability to build powerful computers cheaply, combined with growing commercial demand for high-end computing power, is creating a renaissance in the field of supercomputing."
Intranet Journal: "Every food recipe consists of a number of ingredients that must be included in the correct proportion and border for the end result to end up tasting like it should. The same holds true for an intranet application to end up working as expected."
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