Monday, June 30, 2003

A cute quote and a fun story to read.  Yes, I'm a dork. 2/8/96: "Putting your thoughts on a web page is an invitation to anyone to take your hand. It's an open medium. A link is a connection between people. A web page is an open hand." [Scripting News] Comments10:29:46 PM

9 Facts About Mortgages. Test your homebuying smarts. [The Motley Fool] Comments4:04:37 PM

Useit.Com: Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster. Information foraging is the most important concept to emerge from Human-Computer Interaction research since 1993. Developed at Xerox PARC by Stuart Card, Peter Pirolli, and colleagues, information foraging uses the analogy of wild animals gathering food to analyze how humans collect information online. [Tomalak's Realm] Comments4:03:41 PM

This explains why I work so well with developers.  I feel like I'm publishing too much.  someone remind me to clean this up once a month. Engines, steering wheels, and open source. The VP of technology for a leading enterprise software vendor recently told me that he spends a lot of time wondering how open source projects can possibly work. "You take out the internal combustion engine," he said, "yet somehow the car still runs." My take was that there is, indeed, a powerful engine purring under the hood of open source. Creative programming is a deeply addictive behavior. Part of the rush comes from the endorphins released when the mind enters a state of flow. And part of it comes from the peer acclaim that all programmers crave. ... [Jon's Radio] Comments8:54:04 AM

This is super intersting to me. I'm glad to say that my number doesn't pop up an addess.  :)  But, still, I hadn't thought about you being so much more tracable/categorized when you're shopping for something online rather than going into the mall and using cash (and not supplying your damn phone number which I won't do). The translucent veil. As we shift to an economy based on access to networked services more than on ownership of goods, translucency will be harder to achieve. Identity, after all, is a condition of access to such services. Even so, when customer data need not necessarily be personalized, translucency is a powerful technique that can meet your requirements, satisfy your customers, and keep the feds happy too. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] When I challenged Peter to nail down the practical uses and limits of translucency, he responded with an analysis of how Amazon might apply it. He concludes that it would be practical for Amazon to avoid storing a lot of data, and notes that the problem is really more in our heads than in our databases: ... [Jon's Radio] Comments8:49:58 AM

I love this quote Adam Curry used in his blog. Rita Mae Brown sums it up with this quote: "For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Comments7:02:31 AM

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