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Comment Engines
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Just an implementation note…I recently spent several hours researching and trying out comment engines. The various hosted systems like YACCS can be quite nice, but when their servers slow down it slowed my site down. There are some nice PHP systems, but that was a learning curve I wanted to avoid. I ended using SnorComments2,…
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Home, June 8, 2002
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Dublin Core Tempate
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Joe Clark points to the oh-so-handy Dublin Core Template. Adding proper metatags to your page couldn’t be much easier, ‘cept for the lack of XHTML support. In his Dubliners he correctly mourns the lack of Dublin Core metadata in the world. And while his idea of a self-organizing-web-through-metatags theory is fascinating, I don’t agree with…
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1fps
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Adrian Miles’ first axiom of network video: legibility is more important than the representation of movement. Which means that over the web when we have to decrease the size and resolution of video we should also lower the frame rate instead of trying to jam 24fps down the wire. How low can the frame rate…
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We Speak Human
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…might be a good slogan for a user-centered design firm. Reminds me a little of Human Context’s Business = People
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Topic Maps vs. RDF
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Steve Pepper, author of The Tao of Topic Maps (and whose title, incidentally is Information Architect) – makes a concise, interesting comparison of Topic Maps and RDF, arguing for the former. Here’s a few points that struck me: One key difference – I don’t know if it is the key difference – is that topic…
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Coco Chanel
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“Women are not flowers, why should they want to smell like flowers?” – Coco Chanel
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.htaccess – it slices, it dices
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This .htaccess tutorial reveals that this one little file is more than you ever imagined! Password-protect files, redirect files or whole directories, specify error pages, prevent directory listings and hotlinking to images, and more! Apache web server not included.
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go molly
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Like some crazy whirling vortex, Razorfish keeps sucking up talented folks. This time its Molly. Yay!
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LombardiSearch
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In the left column you’ll notice I reinstated the LombardiSearch interface for searching the web. The point is to more easily choose the right search engine for a query based on the engine’s particular search method. In this case I’m using Teoma, Google, and AskJeeves. Thanks again to Mathew for the Javascript assist.
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Independence Day, 2002
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They’re selling vegetables on BroadwayA man is runnin’ for the train Strollin’ down 42nd Street On our Independence Day Rub-A-Dub on 57th Street It’s our Independence Day! Arm in arm on 82nd Street On our Independence Day
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Flamenco links, Summer 2002
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The Flamenco Guitar Home Page On my list of big things to learn someday is Flamenco guitar. I could start with these resources, which are excellent (for example, the combination of transcription, tabulature, and mp3s of early 20th Century recordings). But I know I would just be reinforcing bad technique, never having learned proper classical…
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Sylloge + Caterina
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Stewart got married. Wonderful!
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IA Case Studies I’d Like to See
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1. Slashdot. For the interplay of how information feeds into the interface design, how the whole system is tweaked to serve very high traffic efficiently, and the interplay of those two challenges. 2. Classmates.com, for the brilliant-yet-evil way they suck you in, offering you a taste, getting a little info about you, giving you a…
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Introduce me to that big blond…
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she’s got a touch of Tuesday Weld.