Thursday, May 9, 2002

Use the blog, Luke

Steven Johnson
The true revolution promised by the rise of bloggerdom is not about journalism. It's about information management.

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Strategic usability

Scott Berkun
Tactical use of usability engineering is responsive and isolated, focusing on adjustments to existing designs, often late in the schedule. Strategic use of usability or user research is proactive and integrated, improving decision making at many levels of project and business planning.

posted at 11:46:27 PM — permalink

The Entertainment Server

Wilson Rothman
A concept product demonstrated last fall had a capacity of one terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, which means it could hold either 450 hours of DVD-quality movies, 1,500 CD's or 600,000 high-resolution photographs. Presumably that sort of box would sit in the corner of the room or in the basement (one nickname for entertainment servers is "media furnace").

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For Lego Lovers, Building Web Pages Brick by Brick

Rachel Lehmann-haupt
In June, Lego Direct, Lego's direct marketing and catalog division, plans to introduce a new tool that allows members of the Lego Club to construct their own personalized Web page using virtual Lego bricks.

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user.radio.callbacks.writeRssFile

Dave Winer
Yesterday we released a change to this core routine that allows the user to completely replace writeRssFile in an update-safe way. Before generating the RSS, we check user.radio.callbacks.writeRssFile. We loop over the table, calling procedures, passing the parameter list we received. The first one that doesn't scriptError gets to speak for us. (If the table is empty, we proceed as we normally would.)

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Macs' Last Stand on Capitol Hill

Mark Baard
By seeking a Windows-only workplace, the SAA is locking the Senate into expensive product development cycles precipitated by each new release of Microsoft's Windows.

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Multi-Author Weblog Tool

Jake Savin
A multi-authored weblog has posts that appear on the home page which are written by a group of people, instead of by a single author. The Multi-Author Weblog Tool makes it easy to use Radio to create a multi-authored weblog.

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