and verily there was a flood of anti-wap articles. and jakob did spake, "and i say unto you, do not follow false prophets, for it was i who first prophesied that wap was a false god that could only lead to fragmentation and discord."
posted by e3
7:04:27 PM
interesting read in cio on the importance of "information design":
posted by e3
10:24:51 PM
"Like everyone else in an organization, IT professionals are aiming to pick up their pace and their reach. But while many companies are addressing the escalating demand for information by creating larger "storage bins" and making sure they can pull more information through their expansive networks, others have begun to realize that it's just not going to be that easy."
"Andersen Consulting's Institute for Strategic Change asked IT executives if they had a process for developing actionable information, and they answered with a resounding no. Eighty-six percent reported that they have no process or that they plan to use the traditional IT requirements definition and data-modeling processes. These are the same processes that have been instrumental in creating today's nonactionable information environment. In either case, they aren't talking about an information design process."
the reports of feed and suck joining forces is all over the place, but i'm going to blog 'em anyway, so i can capture them in the glorified annotated bookmark bin [and who says there is no place for self-referential linking].
anyway, zdnet has a nice overview that the new parent of the two online pubs, automatic media, is going to focus on building communities, instead on generating content:
posted by e3
11:12:29 PM
anyway, zdnet has a nice overview that the new parent of the two online pubs, automatic media, is going to focus on building communities, instead on generating content:
"All of the sites owned by Automatic Media will share a common advertising sales force, technology and administrative resources, a move that should cut costs and increase the efficiency of individual sites. The Webzines will maintain their distinctive brand names and editorial voices, though they plan to weave hyperlinks to each other throughout their respective sites."dave contributes his 2 cents and homes in on this important point:
"Automatic Media doesn't expect most of its growth to come from hiring teams of high-paid journalists and writers to expand editorial operations. Instead, the company plans to place a growing emphasis on user participation in discussions about the stories and columns on Feed, Suck and other editorial sites. That approach, aimed at attracting advertisers as the user base grows, has the double advantage of being highly interactive and relatively cheap."
"The Web is not a mirror of the print industry, that's why advertising is not so important. The unique thing about the Web is that it's interactive. We all know that. The challenge is to squeeze quality, high-integrity writing out of the readers, and present it back to them with your seal of quality. That's a much employing writers and running ads as the print industry does.
I was disappointed to see that Automatic Media is using SlashDot-style conferencing for the Suck-Feed combination. I strongly believe this is the wrong approach. Better to start new Sucks and Feeds using the traditions of sarcasm and literacy that each of these pubs have done such a great job of starting."
crap. first there's the avalanche of circumstantial evidence that i'm going to [or already do] suffer 'cognitive deficits' by being born 3 months premature. and now it appears that, since i'm also left-handed, odds are that i may really be a homosexual [not that there's anything wrong with that]. i hope my wife doesn't find out - she may start believing that she got the short end of the deal.
posted by e3
11:12:11 PM
<cliche>the more things change, the more they stay the same or - the only thing new under the mainstream ui sun is the history of the apple desktop interface you haven't read</cliche>:
[via camworld]
posted by e3
9:03:51 PM
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