From: Gleanings
To: good boys and girls
Subject: Gleanings: also I'd like my two front teeth
OPENING THANG
My Christmas list looks about the same as Scott Rosenberg's.
Salon: All I want for Christmas is ... an e-mail program that works.
Scott Rosenberg.
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/12/20/christmas/index.html
except I'd like to add a request for an end to all interstitials. Even with DSL I can still close those nasty little windows before the content loads in them. I don't think I'm the only one.
"We Now Interrupt Your Browsing for This Commercial Message,"
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/18/technology/18STEL.html?pagewanted=all
IA MATTERS
found in inbox
> Much of the literature on information architecture talks about the
> relationship between graphic design, and cognitive psychology in the
> design of information systems. Very few mention the relationship
> between information architecture and library and information
> science. I'd like to share a piece written by one of my professors
> in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the
> University of Texas where he discusses information architecture and
> relates it to library and information science. The article is
> located at
> http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/readings/InfoArchitecture.html
NEWS
Industry Standard: The Nightmare Before Christmas.
If you're a major online retailer pumped up for the 2000 holiday season, the
last thing you need is some administrative snafu that suspends your main URL
and bars online shoppers from your Web site. Last Wednesday, Dec. 13, that's
exactly what happened to Barnesandnoble.com.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20961,00.html
blog reader know I have "issues" with B&N, so I'm giggling right now.
http://www.eleganthack.com/blog/6-2000.shtml (read "burning a hole in my inbox" before "the sequel" Dang reverse chorological blog organization)
APROPOS OF NOTHING
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2000/12/18/tomo/index.html
> On the other hand, if you want to see an *excellent* use of Flash, visit
the
> Lake Wobegon stuff at http://www.nationalgeographic.com.
FEEDBACK
me (in gleanings)
I know in France the number of folks who use the internet (as opposed to
minitel) went up dramatically once the ISP's went to flat rate unlimited
access. the charge for local calls still hampers them, though....
Frédéric
A small update for you : I am one of the few that pioneered "free access",
that is NO monthly fee, the caller paying the local calls to his telco
(France Telecom). I am one of the VERY few that pioneered "all-in-one
access" that is NO monthly fee, the caller paying US the locals calls at a
substantially lower price.
This has increased like HELL the number of subscribers (If the investors I
was trying to convince as early as September 94 knew this we wouldn't have
waited until late 98 to get our funding ;) / All French offers started in
early 99, following freeserve (UK) mid 98 launch.
Then marketing suggested that we go further and today you can find offers
like 0 FrenchFranc with 4 free hours (low rate local call applies above
these 4 hours)
A few ISPs tried flat rate unlimited access, local calls included BUT they
loose way too much money :)
Yours,
Frédéric
posted by Christina Wodtke 12/21/2000 08:46:36 AM
From: Gleanings
To: architects
Subject: Gleanings: IAlicious
IA MATTERS
starting with this excellent article on information architecture from the Wurman POV.
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/readings/InfoArchitecture.html
http://www.ludvigsen.hiof.no/webdoc/mediaseminar/ai.html
my god this is bad... I cannot believe they are ia's!
http://www.infoarchgroup.com/
this is a pretty good description of IA, form the architecture metaphor POV
http://www.designtexas.org/ia.html
Excellent article, but I almost discounted it because of the extremely small type. getting old.
(at least it's relative font sized, and I can re-size it. god bless)
http://acg.media.mit.edu/projects/glom/
definitions
http://www.munimall.net/newsletter/991020/information_architect.cfm
DESIGN MATTERS
Type Fundamentals for Nondesigners
--> http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/01/desi/
"You know all about the font tag. You've tried CSS on for style. And
naturally, you can create a good-looking, well-optimized Web graphic. But
how much do you know about the fundamentals of typography?" from xblog.com
I still recommend this book to anyone who isn't a desinger but still has to make things that aren't ugly
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566091594/eleganthack/105-3179524-0829518
ETC
Irish Times: Web's words.
Brian Friel's play, Translations is a harsh reminder of the perils a country
can face as a result of losing its language. If we think that Ireland has had
such an identity crisis, what about the prospect of the entire planet tuning
in to a non-stop diet of English, specifically US English, via the
Internet?
http://scripts.ireland.com/technology/showall.cfm?ID=1227
Feed Magazine: From July 7, 1999; How 19th-Century Politics Determined The
21st-Century. Clay Shirky.
http://www.feedmag.com/daily/dy070799_master.html
NEWS
hey, looks like my friends won't end up with huge tumors--
Cell Phone Studies See No Link to Brain Cancer
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/20/science/20PHON.html
(Registration required.)
Mobile Phone Cancer Fears 'Unfounded'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1078000/1078464.stm
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posted by Christina Wodtke 12/20/2000 11:46:48 AM
