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“We make a lot of this stuff up as we go along,.. We don’t assume anything works and we don’t like to make predictions without real-world tests.’
Category: daily del.icio.us links
links for 23 November 2006 – Of Flow and the Semantic Web
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The premise of this essay is that those exquisite but all too rare moments when we experience ‘flow’, when we are truly creative, happy and intuitively know exactly what is needed, are simply those instances when we glimpse our original and true nature.
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what is this semantic web you speak of? And how close is it to existing? (with a nod to microformats)
links for 22 November 2006 – Crowdsourcing & Gender Divides
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Threadless is ‘is a “crowd-sourced” manufacturing business’
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Workplace pressures deter female techies from having children – Information Professional Sector NewsRead this. It’s very interesting. Particularly the divergence in perception between men and women.
links for 21 November 2006 – Is IA dying? Kick butt on panels. But wait, there’s more!
It’s been a while between links, so here’s a big list for you to enjoy!
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I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve never thought about interface design as being a factor for YouTube’s success… but now that you mention it, it makes a lot of sense.
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Nice idea. Does anyone else think it’s a bit tough to let people know their submissions have been successful on 19 Mar when the conference is on in late April?
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this new social app helps you manage your money better by providing a range of helpful tools and personalised community content… if you’re willing to hand over all your financial details. It almost scares me to think that we’re ready to share this much!
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in defense of folksonomies
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Also in defense of folksonomies
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Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy
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beautiful flash games.
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“Herein lies the problem: everyone thinks a panel is easy so they don’t take it seriously.” Here’s how to do it well.
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oooh! I’m loving this discussion (Joshua Porter has pulled together the threads really nicely in this post). I have to agree that IA as we knew it has already evolved and will continue to do so, taxonomies are not the answer and folksonomies are not flawless.
I’m still thinking on this, but Peter Morville just suggested to the IA Institute mailing list that we save these ‘obituaries until the 2050 IA Summit’. Me, I’d rather think of it as reincarnation than straight out death. -
people could “click on you to link to your blog.” He adds, “You could go to a football match and be able to see information on the players, or ball movement, or tactics by looking at the field with your device.”