Rachmaninov had big Hands. One of my all too infrequent “just because” posts. Enjoy! (tip)
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Links For Tuesday
- Adobe Releases Three Public Betas (sorta): Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth are available to test ONLY for 48 hours unless you already own CS3. So Adobe really only wants feedback from current customers, not potential customers.
- Randstad USA reports that the four components of the US workforce — Gen X, Gen Y, Baby Boomers and Matures — “rarely interact with one another and often do not recognize each other’s skills or work ethic.” Interesting words in the “Top Ranked Terms Used to Describe Coworkers in Same Generational Cohort” table.
- Gorilla Nation, the world’s largest online ad rep firm, is now representing the
online ad inventory for Horseland.com, a multiplayer game and community set in a virtual world targeting girls ages 8-18. - Frost & Sullivan champion pre-paid and “credit-challenged” (ahem) market segments due to the “mobile communications market … fast approaching saturation.”
Back To The Future: TFM
In 2001 and 2002 I wrote a monthly “column” called <TFM>*. My goal was to explore issues in web design, specifically usability.
Even back then, some of my friends (and students) wondered if I had ever met a Web site that I liked. (I still get this question!) Unfortunately, even in 2008, finding examples to illustrate poor interface design and limited usability is much easier than finding exemplary sites.
Free Photoshop Book. No Strings!
I suppose I should start reading Digg more often, but I found out about this free book from Eric Rice (via Twitter, of course), who was pointing to an article at the Read-Write-Web about how crowds can be dumb.
Here’s the deal: that 99designs is officially sponsoring a 30 day giveaway of SitePoint’s Photoshop Anthology (for another 17 days!). Sitepoint decided (intelligently) to add a “Digg” button to the landing page (the promo page). But someone killed the ride to the “top” of Digg with this comment (which is totally bogus): Continue reading
The Future of News – Princeton Last Week
I have spent the morning and part of the afternoon listening to Princeton’s Center for Information Tech’s workshop on the Future of News. Great speakers, interesting panels. It is available through iTunes on the University Channel. Also on video through the same. Here’s the link that will get you to both – plus the agenda: CITP
The speakers included: Steve Boriss, Dan Gilmore, and Paul Starr.
Great conversation! Even pretty hopeful – a nice change from doom and gloom we often hear.
Peg
