THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: December 29, 2004
[December 29, 2004]
Leslie Michael Orchard: "General-purpose computers are inherently insecure, not because of any given operating system, but because they can do anything. That especially includes things you don't want them to do. All one has to do is say the right magic words or make the right bribe to a particular corrupt bureaucrat in the system, and he or she is in. And, once someone's in, oh the things they can do!"
[December 27, 2004]
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): "Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
In Vino Veritas!
[December 24, 2004]
BBC News: "Search has become a crucial tool, moving beyond the web to the desktop in 2004."
[December 23, 2004]
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone.
Naomi Augar, Ruth Raitman and Wanlei Zhou: "Wikis are fully editable websites; any user can read or add content to a wiki site. This functionality means that wikis are an excellent tool for collaboration in an online environment. This paper presents wikis as a useful tool for facilitating online education. Basic wiki functionality is outlined and different wikis are reviewed to highlight the features that make them a valuable technology for teaching and learning online."
[December 19, 2004]
Oliver Steele: "Last weekend, I shared some interesting properties of numbers with my kids. The great thing about explaining something to a non-expert is that you have to actually understand the topic. (This is why making teaching and research universities the same actually makes sense.) If you hide behind a formalism, the explanation won't work. Usually, this means that you didn't understand why the formalism worked either." (via)
[December 18, 2004]
Gerry Gaffney: "The best way to get to know users is to spend time with them, in their own environments, watching them do the things that your Website is going to support or enable."
Firefox has been downloaded more than 11 million times.
[December 17, 2004]
Intranet Journal: "Running a survey is a great way to allow your user community to express their views and opinions on the current state of their intranet and gives them an opportunity to play a part in the future direction of the system. But it's a two-way street; if you ask users for feedback, they should be able to see the results of this feedback. They have to know that the time they spent filling out your survey is being viewed by someone on the other end of the Submit button. But if nothing ever comes out of a user survey campaign, don't be surprised if your users hang up on you the next time you need to ask them their opinion."
Action Plan: Confronting Digital Espionage: "Don't say everything is a corporate secret; that leaves too much to defend. Do a real inventory of assets so you don't leave corporate valuables unsecured. But then make clear judgments of what really needs defending."
James Cameron: "Shouldn't we solve our problems here on Earth before we go into space? There will never be a time when all people are satisfied, when all wrongs are addressed. We live better, more luxuriously, and longer now than at any other time in history. Cook, da Gama, and Magellan left behind shores wracked by death, disease, and social injustice - but they went, and their societies benefited. Our problems must be solved, but not at the expense of exploration. Exploration is not a luxury. It defines us as a civilization."
[December 14, 2004]
Scott Berkun: "As a former designer of a major web browser, here's an analysis of how to improve on the current generation of web browsers. Includes references to research and browser history."
Trenton Moss: "The secret benefit of accessibility part 1: Increased usability"
Luc Melanson Illustration
[December 12, 2004]
eWEEK: "A Computer Associates exec warns that spyware will soon become an even bigger headache for enterprises than viruses."
Martin Majoor: "It is my conviction that you cannot be a good type designer if you are not a book typographer. I am not talking here about display types but about text types. A type designer must know how type works in a piece of text, he must know what happens with the type on different sorts of paper, he must know how a typeface behaves with different printing techniques."
Steven Heller: "Despite all its accomplishments, the contemporary design world is afflicted by a deep vacuousness. Most students and many practitioners cannot even list or describe the field's milestones or pioneers."
[December 10, 2004]
Walter S. Mossberg: "[...] Instead of being able to view their computers as tools for productivity, research, communication and entertainment, consumers have been forced to devote rising amounts of time and money just to keeping the machines safe. The PC has, in many cases, gone from being a solution to being, at least in part, a problem."
[December 09, 2004]
BBC News: "Gadget lovers are so hungry for digital data many are carrying the equivalent of 10 trucks full of paper in 'weight'."
Wired News: "There's a reason why so many PCs are infected with spyware and adware: Users seem to have stopped caring about having online privacy."
[December 08, 2004]
John S. Rhodes: "I don't think advertising is a bad thing. The problem is the how people advertise."
Juan C. Dürsteler: "Bar graphs or bar charts are ubiquitous visual representations, but they are not always correctly used and many times we don't get the most out of them. We review here their essence, properties and utilization."
[December 07, 2004]
Gerry McGovern: "Understanding where technology is strong and where people are strong is an essential skill of the modern manager. Too often today, technology is doing things that would be better done by people."
[December 05, 2004]
Computerworld: "When users approach a Web site, there is typically a gap between what they know now (current knowledge), and what they need to know in order to accomplish their goals (target knowledge). This is called the knowledge gap. Developers must take this gap into consideration when designing a site or application, and apply content and user interface to overcome the gap."
Peter Merholz: "Right now, user experience designers don't need any more design methods in their toolbox - they need management methods that enable them to spread those successful tools throughout the organization."
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