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- 23 April 2007 -
Comic
Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making, from
Scout Report
- 18 April 2007 -
A Fresh Start for
the Internet; Stanford University researchers aren't just dreaming of a
new Internet: they're building it, by Rachel Ross, Technology Review,
19 Mar 2007
- 16 April 2007 - and I forgot to do them on the 16th
- 02-09 April 2007 - we were too involved in databases to do starters
- 28 March 2007 -
The Promise of
Personal Supercomputers: What will it take to put thousands of
microprocessors in cell phones and laptops? By Kate Greene, in Technology
Review, 23 Feb 2007.
- 26 March 2007 -
FreeMind
- free mind mapping software, from FreePint. A tool that might help
you see connections you didn't know existed.
- 21 March 2007 -
Famous Curves Index, from The Scout Report
- 19 March 2007 -
Sociology at
Microsoft: The software giant wants to better understand how people
interact on the Internet, by Kate Greene, Technology Review, 09 Mar
2007.
- 07 March 2007 -
New Advice: Don't Sit Up Straight, by Sara Goudarzi, LiveScience, 28 Nov
2006 (from LII). In case someone is always telling you to sit up and
fly right.
- 05 March 2007 -
Social
Bookmarking Tools, A General Review, by Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben
Lund, and Joanna Scott, D-Lib Magazine, April 2005 (from Current
Cites). When John Weis introduced deli.cio.us to us as a starter, it
prompted some looking back at scholarly articles on the topic.
- 28 February 2007 -
RSS: Less hype, more action, by Roddy MacLeod, FreePint, 17 Jun
2004
- 26 February 2007 -
Information politics: The story of an emerging metadata standard by Joan
Starr, FirstMonday, July 2003
- 21 February 2007 -
R.I.P. WYSIWYG, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 10 Oct 2005. Do you
agree with him?
- 19 February 2007 -
Hypertext Links:
Whither Thou Goest, and Why by Claire Harrison, FirstMonday,
October 2002
- 14 February 2007 -
Productivity and Screen Size, Jakob Nielsen's
Alertbox, 23 Oct
2006
- 12 February 2007 - Free HTML Form
Builder - Create Forms, Surveys and Invitations. From ScoutReport
- 07 February 2007 - As you think about designing your web sites, you
might consider color.
Inf@Vis,
16 Oct 2006.
Cynthia Brewer, of the Penn State University, proposed in 1994
some interesting guidelines on the use of colour in cartography and
visualisation that lead to a set of colour schemes related to the classification
of data that can be very useful when chosing the appropriate colour palette for
our application.
- 05 February 2007 - As you think about designing your web sites, you
might consider what kinds of design or topics seem to be most useful.
Alexa Traffic
Rankings, a listing of all sites on the Web, sorted by traffic... You
can review sites by country
(the most popular sites among users in the country, not sites
hosted in the country), language, or subject. From FreePint, 04
Jan 2007.
- 31 January 2007 -
Top Ten Web
Design Mistakes of 2005, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 03 Oct 2005. Not much
has changed
- 29 January 2007 -
100 Million Websites,
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 11 Nov 2006.
- 24 January 2007 - Visual
Trace, a tool seen originally in FreePint.
- 22 January 2007 -
Security Insight - Google Desktop - yet another security frightener, by
C.J. Kelly in Techworld.com, 28 December 2006 - originally seen in
SearchEngineWatch.
- 17 January 2007 -
Computers Decision Guide, by ConsumerReports.org - originally seen
in Librarians Index to the Internet
- 10 January 2007 -
Getting started with "Getting Things Done", Jan Verbogen in
FreePint,
16 Jun 2005