Victor
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One Economy
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One Economy is an American non-profit organization working to help low-income people access technology, like high-speed Internet access.
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Teaching in Sound Bites
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Some time ago I helped create a classification scheme for a very large company’s website. Several months into the project, when most of the coding to power this scheme was finished, some executives objected to it. Some of the objections made sense, and with some tweaks we were able to incorporate additional concerns like marketing…
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Radio Vox Populi
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Oh. Oh yes. Someone plugged a radio into the Internet. Don’t think, just listen. Thank you Anne.
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IA Summit Presentations
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The downloads are starting to appear on the IA Summit site (thanks Javier). Even after having attended, there’s so much I didn’t get to see, it’s like a shopping spree in a candy store.
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Project Management Reality
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Usually a project manager will drop into MS Project and later emerge with the project plan. I saw a nice counter example today where someone acknowledged the uncertainty of a dynamic project situation. ‘We can go off and build what we think you want for the lowest price in the shortest time and plan time…
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The Modified Librarian
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Here we will discuss the concept and practice of body modification as it relates to librarians as persons and professionals. Those crazy college kids.
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Every Brett Edifying
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Brett – one smart IA – just launched his blog: every breath death defying. We’ll be reading closely.
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IA Summit Stuff
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When inhaling becomes an option I’ll report a bit on the IA Summit. In the meantime here’s some misc. photos and my presentation, Incorporating Navigation Research into a Design Method PDF (800K), PPT (2MB). You’ll want to view the powerpoint version in Notes View to get the story and pictures at the same time. And…
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IA Summit, Thurs
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If you’re in Austin for the IA Summit don’t dine alone! Some of us are having dinner at Zax, 312 Barton Springs Rd at 7:30.
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Recently featured at NBS…
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Good explainations for something we already knew: Big companies breed small minds.Even if Mark Hurst is over-simplifying, those pages aren’t long for this world.Shop for a date at Yahoo! Personals.And Nathan Shedroff sums up what’s wrong with personas.
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Big companies breed small minds
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Two views on the same idea: Daniel Dennett in How The Mind Works, courtesy of Alex Wright: A flow chart is typically the organizational chart of a committee of homunculi (investigators, librarians, accountants, executives); each box specifies a homunculus by precribing a function without saying how it is accomplished (one says, in effect: put a…
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Organizations
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Marketing/Usability Litmus Test
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Refining my thinking about how to integrate brand and marketing into IA. My current litmus test is, ‘Do both the company and the customer benefit from the design?‘ That sounds like a statement I think my marketing people will agree with, and is more realistic than only arguing for usability (in most companies). I find…
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Grey Tuesday
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The positioning of Grey Tuesday is interesting, but somewhat flawed. First, this ain’t a censorship issue, it’s a copyright issue. Second, censorship doesn’t work, but copyright does. Granted, not everyone wants copyright. For those who wish something more flexible, there’s Creative Commons. For those who don’t want to respect copyright, there’s, well, stealing. Stealing is…
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Y! Personals & Galleries
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Yahoo! has this clever campaign for their personals that I couldn’t help but follow and explore (Not that I’m in the market sorry to disappoint you :). What I saw was pretty amazing, a gallery-like view of many singles… Very cool, because it’s just so browse-friendly. Visually scan for an attractive face, then click…