From: Gleanings
To: Visionaries
Subject: Gleanings: John, Paul, George and Steven Johnson

OPENING THANG.

I heart Steven Johnson. Y'all got the book, right?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062514822/eleganthack/102-8624076-7347347
It's one of those books you have to put down every few pages to stare at the ceiling and think. I managed to think up three business plans and a new way to write poetry by the time I was halfway through.

anyhow, new column from him

"FEED Magazine: Change the System! Steven Johnson. I confess to being one of those early adopters, and I also confess to suffering from the strange lack of proportion that a software event like this induces. This fixation has got me thinking about the cultural status of operating systems... "
http://www.feedmag.com/column/interface/ci398_master.html

and someone else writes on one of his favorite riffs, reinventing narrative in hypertext.
"In Depth: What is the Future of Fiction, Interactively
Speaking?"
http://www.newmedia.com/nm-article.asp?articleID=2316

IA & DESIGN MATTERS
"Pattern-Supported Approach to the UI Design Process
The use of patterns for capturing and transmitting UI design knowledge has become a hot topic over the last couple of years."
http://www.gespro.com/lafrenid/patterns.html

"The Art of Indexing by Larry S. Bonura (Review by Sarah Bidigare)
Sarah explores the extent to which this book about the principles and practices of print indexing applies to the Web."
http://argus-acia.com/content/current_content.html

"An Interview with Nathan Shedroff
Nathan shares his experiences at vivid studios, his take on Richard Saul Wurman, and his thoughts about information architecture and interaction design."
http://argus-acia.com/people/current_profile.html

USABILITY MATTERS

Internet World: Deconstructing Moviefone.com. Joy Busse and Peter Merholz. Too many clicks. Remember, we've got a busy person here, with a couple of spare minutes to purchase tickets in between tasks. Every click and page load counts. First-time users have to go through seven clicks from the home page to buying tickets...
http://www.internetworld.com/article_bot.asp?inc=100100/10.01.00Decon&issue=10.01.00

NEWS

"SJ Mercury: ICANN pursuing slowest-possible expansion of Net domain names. Dan Gillmor. The more plausible reason was that powerful trademark interests want to keep this resource scarce. For one thing, they've already invested in .com domains. For another, it's easier to police alleged violations of trademarks with fewer TLDs. "
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/dg100400.htm

"Trademark This!
(Monday, 2 October 00) It used to be that before you could trademark
something, it had to exist. You know, before there was an office tower
full of frothing lawyers defending the Coca-Cola Company's right to
unfettered commercial use of Coke, Diet Coke, and the like, someone
else actually started putting brown carbonated sugar water into a
bottle and selling it to the masses. The trademark came to protect the
identification of the product. Suddenly, however, it seems that the
cart is coming before the horse. United States Patent and Trademark
Office policies now are being used to stake out domain names that
don't even exist. By Andrew Rice."
http://www.newmedia.com/nm-article.asp?articleID=2309

APROPOS OF NOTHING

Have you heard about the "sand mouse"?
Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/03/science/03CHALL.html
Web page:
http://shadrach.cns.nyu.edu/~carlos/Organism/

"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Call it a love-in, year 2000 style. Hundreds, if
not thousands, of San Franciscans are expected to gather Thursday to
sing the Beatles' 1967 hit "All You Need Is Love" in Union Square.
Thursday is Beatles Day in San Francisco, the city where the Fab Four
had their last public concert, in 1966. The day celebrates the
publication of "The Beatles Anthology," a $60 autobiography published
by San Francisco-based Chronicle Books. The 367-page book cobbles
together conversations between John, Paul, Ringo and George to trace
the band's decade-long journey of fame, from their 1960 debut in
Hamburg, Germany to their breakup." See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570365199-191
posted by Christina Wodtke 10/5/2000 8:26:08 AM

From: Gleanings
To: names and numbers
Subject: Gleanings; trend tuesday

IA MATTERS

Lou updated the calendar.
http://argus-acia.com/events/full_calendar.html

TRENDS
from Nua
"The 'State of the Internet 2000' report, recently released by the US
Internet Council and prepared by International Technology and Trade
Associates, is one of the most useful Internet-related studies to be
released this year. Its authors had the ambitious aim of producing a
complete overview of the current state of the Internet and they have
succeeded magnificently."

For the full story, go to:
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/analysis/weekly_editorial/archives/issue1no146.html
the survey
http://www.usic.org/

Music on the Web is no longer associated with children and young adults
as a new report finds that 6,811,000 Americans aged 50 and over visited
music-related websites in the US.
http://www.mediametrix.com/press/releases/20000926.jsp?language=us

Half of the adult population in America do not have Internet access and
57 percent of non-Internet users have no interest in using the Web.
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/reports.asp?Report=21&Section=ReportLevel2&Field=Level2ID&ID=55

USABILITY MATTERS

John Rhodes of Webword recently held a contest to see if there was a usable profitable flash ecommerce site. read more
http://www.webword.com/flashusability.html

NEWS
Shanghai in a bid to raise the moral standards of the city's young
people and prevent adults from playing 'corrupting' computer games.
http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=203567

Fletcher Research: European dotcoms improve 'burn rates'
New research shows that European dotcom ventures are improving
their 'burn rates' through a combination of new fundraising and
business restructuring, but some sectors are still at risk.
http://www.fletcheradvisory.fsnet.co.uk/final.pdf

Wired: Linux takes root in Africa
The free open-source operating system Linux is gaining a foothold in
Africa-a continent where many cannot afford the license fees associated
with proprietary software.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,38749,00.html

APROPOS OF NOTHING

Who is on the other side of your flamewar?
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
posted by Christina Wodtke 10/3/2000 7:52:48 AM

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