Jinn of Quality and Risk (2002-May-15)

Jinn?

According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes.

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Projects

Travel, around the world. Sleep, less. Profit, more. Eat, deliciously. Find, a new home.

Bio?

Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant

2002-May-15

Web Color Visualizer

Useful (Ideo) entry in the 5k contest of 2001. You have 5 kilobytes to make the best web page or site you can and submit your entry until June 16, 2002.

Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections

... pays particular attention to digitization collection practices that facilitate integration and aggregation of digital information resources developed by museums, libraries, and similar institutions. ... articulates principles fundamental to planning, implementation, and evaluation of digitization projects and links to specific resources and exemplary models that support and illustrate good application of these principles. [FirstMonday]

Interview with Jeff Johnson, author of "GUI Bloopers"

As both a programmer and computer user, I felt strongly that computers should be easier to use than they were.

The Future is Visual

Ben Shneiderman is exploring visual interfaces, because speech is inappropriate to control computers. Many programs emerging from the lab ... let users visually zoom in and out easily, the idea being that people grasp data better if they can associate it with the big picture.

New Landscape for Book Reviews

Relying on print reviews to help you choose from the 135,000 books published each year is tougher than ever. Since 2000, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, The San Jose Mercury-News, St. Paul Pioneer Press and The New York Times have all cut their book reviews as much as 50 percent. [Wired]

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