Archive for March, 2002

 

Paolo

March 31st, 2002

Paolo at eVectors wrote up his deployment of the Radio Community Server.  Every person at his company uses Radio on the desktop.  They publish personal weblogs to the Intranet via an RSS server.  They use Radio categories to publish topic specific weblogs.  Their Intranet server aggregates RSS feeds from the multiple employee weblogs (both their [...]

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Top Research Laboratories in Human-Computer Interaction

March 31st, 2002

Useit.Com: Top Research Laboratories in Human-Computer Interaction. A core group of elite corporate research labs (and a few universities) defined the field of human-computer interaction and established much of whatever ease of use we now enjoy. With big labs disappearing, the future of HCI research is in jeopardy. [Tomalak's Realm]

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B&A: Taking the You out of User and Summit Wrapup

March 30th, 2002

B&A: Taking the You out of User and Summit Wrapup. New in Boxes and Arrows.
 In “Taking the You out of User” Meg Hourihan explains how she and the Blogger team made Blogger so darn easy to use…with personas!
 Also, we've done an *in-depth* review of the IA Summit in Baltimore. Now you can learn the IA [...]

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Top 10 Tips For Usable Flash

March 30th, 2002

Top 10 Tips For Usable Flash. Stephanie Reindel, ao-author of Flash 99% Good, summarizes her tips.
Flash in and of itself is not the problem. After all, Flash is merely a tool, and a powerful tool at that. When used wisely, Flash can be an effective tool for engaging and retaining users. With it, designers [...]

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FT.com

March 30th, 2002

FT.com  Michael Eisner quotes Lincoln as a defender of intellectual property rights.  He is probably right about that.  However, he would have choked on the idea that term of protection for copyrights would last 95 years or more!  That's more than the life expectancy of 99% of humanity or nearly 4 generations of Americans!  This is [...]

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Public TV gets nasty

March 30th, 2002

Public TV gets nasty.  Maryland public TV (MPT) fired Wall Street Week host, Louis Rukeyser today, given his on-air promotion of a new show that he was developing last week.  Louis' actions were motivated by MPT's behind the back decision last week to end Louis' 32 year relationship with the show. 
Get this.  Wall Street Week has 2.6 m loyal [...]

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Review – NuSphere's PHPEd

March 30th, 2002

Review – NuSphere's PHPEd. WebmasterBase Mar 27 2002 [via Moreover - moreover...]

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Dear Senator Hollings

March 30th, 2002

Mary Wehmeier's Radio Weblog – Dear Senator Hollings.
Obviously you have little knowledge about the technology you wish to regulate so tightly. This lack of understanding about the technology you are proposing to control will write off small business people like me and countless other film, video and music editors who work outside the corporate [...]

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Red Hat Announces the First Enterprise-Class Linux OS

March 30th, 2002

Red Hat Announces the First Enterprise-Class Linux OS. Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is the new powerful enterprise platform for mission-critical server deployments. Backed by Red Hat Network and Red Hat Professional Services, Red Hat Linux Advanced Server will support high availability workgroups with a serious level of security.
Benefits include:
Performance and Scalability Enhancements.
Clustering.
All this for [...]

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DevShed: Error Handling in PHP

March 30th, 2002

DevShed: Error Handling in PHP. No developer, no matter how good he or she may be, writes error-free code all the time. Which is why most programming languages – including PHP – come with built-in capabilities to catch errors and take remedial action. This action could be something as simple as displaying an error message, [...]

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