I'm sorry for the long list of links. I keep a running file at work, but I
keep forgetting to have RadioUserland autostart on my computer at home, so
the updates never make it to the blog!
What's worse than a pop-under ad? Pop-under DOWNLOADS!!!
CIO Magazine has an interview
with Internet Anthropologist Bonnie Nardi.
According to this article in
Darwin Magazine, the Shell Corporation has taken my advice... well, the
advice I've given lots of clients, and that I would have given them if
they'd asked. They're experiementing with a very open discussion forum on
their site which allows anyone to say anything about them, and allows any
employees to answer. As the article says, "Shell's lack of control over the
forum is precisely equivalent to the depth of its real commitment." The
shape of things to come? I hope so.
Ivory Coast Witch Doctors have been placated. They threatened to put a curse on the
national team if they weren't paid for their tremendous hard work in
securing the country's 1992 (and only) victory in the Nations Cup. "In 2000,
the team was locked up in a military camp, forced to frog march and attend
lectures on patriotism after failing to go beyond the first round." Give me
uninterested Laker fans any day.
Please file this under "NO SHIT SHERLOCK." MILITARY-style
"boot camp" regimes for young criminals fail to reduce reoffending
significantly but produce fitter, healthier and more self-confident
offenders, according to a report.
Dark, thoughtful, pro-Israeli. This piece from the New Republic makes a lot of good points. On the
subject, one which I (along with many many many others) have been brooding
about for days/months/years, I finally actually read UN Security Council
Resolution 242 and this very interesting collections of interpretations and
clarifications which make it clear that the withdrawal by Israel is not
from ALL territories occupied, but withdrawal to "recognized and secure"
borders.
I just love WriteDesign.com. Here's a
series of pages on "Graphic Organizing" techniques that I want to try and
include in our brainstorming sessions in class this summer.
Oddpost Is a web-based email client
that uses DHTML to almost perfectly mimic the functionality of Outlook. Wow
this is cool.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you LEISURETOWN (and for the
record, no, I'm not sure I "get it" either.
Very nice how-to on interviewing clients to get information you need to
design their database application. Rule 1: Be nice to the
clients and don't make it seem like you're smarter than them. Good
point! (also check out their "usability" articles.)
Who knew?
J.
Bradford DeLong is an economist at Berkeley, who keeps an online journal
worth reading. He also looks suspiciously like my step-father Ted...
A cool blog to read. You know, if you're into this kind of geeky scripting
stuff.
I'm continually flabbergasted at the sheer volume of weirdness on the net. I
think you should be too.
A Must Read: Bruce Sterling's piece in last
month's Wired: "Driven by al Qaeda's atrocities, the US charged into the
classic quagmire of Afghanistan, legendary death trap of military ambition.
With the customary roll of thunder, out came the full routine of the modern
American expeditionary force. First, a cautious, methodical, widely
televised suppression of local air defenses. Then, once CNN became
accustomed to the violence, some leisurely and terrible precision targeting
throughout the theater, around the clock. In Serbia in 1999, US aircraft
smashed stationary targets, like buildings and bridges. In Afghanistan,
thanks to much faster satellite relays, they demolished rapidly moving
tanks, fleeing Toyota trucks, and amazed guerrillas. It took only two weeks
to chase Taliban and al Qaeda forces into Pakistan, Iran, and beyond."
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