Noise Between Stations

March 2004

  • Otwell on Berlin’s Tacheles

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    ‘…entire neighborhoods were made up of the retail equivalent of personal websites…‘

  • BCG Publications

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    BCG Publications (Ivory tower consulting firm), free.

  • Neat Charts

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    Brand attributes

  • Theory: EBay as Flea Market

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    Let’s assume EBay looks the way it does (not great) because not a lot of attention was paid to the design. Now let’s say they had contracted the design to a professional services firm that practices user-centered design. What would the result look like? Most likely something pretty slick. Conventional wisdom – at least with…

  • That’ll keep me off McDonald’s for a while

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    This boy has no neck.

  • Compare Products

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    A quick comparison of ‘compare products’ functions, I’m particularly interested in the use of screen space and comparing several products. Yahoo shopping will let you compare a seemingly unlimited number of products in its columnar layout, so the visual scanning is done by horizontally scrolling. Same deal at NexTag and EspressoPeople. Dealtime also lets you…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Every Brett Edifying

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    Brett – one smart IA – just launched his blog: every breath death defying. We’ll be reading closely.

  • 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…