Bundles of links I’ve been collecting… but they’re not doing me much good in Safari, so here they are for all to peruse.
- ACM Queue on Enterprise Search, from April 2004. Collection of articles on the topic.
- Why 1998 Was The Turning Point For Newspapers is Vin Crosbie’s selection of the disintegration of New Century Network as the pivotal moment when newspapers started to diminish in importance.
- Jeffrey Zelmand on Production for Use, a reminder that function should drive form.
- Sad Adieu to College, and to Good Old .edu is a June 17 article from NYT about giving up your e-mail address when you leave school. With two teachers in the family leaving their schools this spring, I thought this article missed talking about more than students. Opportunity for GMail to break ground, even if Hotmail and Yahoo are way, way ahead.
- Putting e-mail in its place is a reminder that unplugging can help you get things done. True enough, but what if you keep your email as your To Do list and information archive? And putting everything in your blog doesn’t solve the problem, either.
- Website usability quiz, and I can’t believe I got only 8 out of 10 right. I blame Canada.
- 101 ways to improve your news site should be turned into a quiz, and then used to grade current news sites. Of course, not every idea is applicable, but a feast of possibilities.
- maproom.org lives up to the name. Fas connection required beyond the home page.
- Rick Shaut works for the MacBU within Microsoft. ‘Nuff said.
- The History of San Francisco Bay Area Freeway Development includes plans from the 1940s and 1950s. Fortunately, many were not built. I guess SF didn’t have its own Robert Moses.
- Round 2 of Gurus vs. Bloggersover at Design By Fire.
- Jay Small posts his e-mail exchange with Staci Kramer concerning RSS: Values and limitations of RSS. I was quoted in the same article, but it was a mix of email and phone conversation, and while I might have emphasized different things, I’m fine with the end result.
- Blog software breakdown (chart), and here’s the explanation by the creator of the chart.
- . Or you can review Barry Parr’s choice of Top 10 free and cheap content management systems. Both were done in May, although unclear if they are still actively updated.
- A BlackBerry Throbs, and a Wonk Has a Date from the NYT in late May 2004. I have one, and I still believe it fits the initial description in the article: “an accessory with all the sex appeal of a pocket protector.” But I’m married with two kids, so what do I know?
- Separation: The Web Designer‰s Dilemma on A List Apart. A bit abstract-like, but ALA is usually worth a read.
- In-depth blog review of the architecture of the new Seattle library. With the title“Brutal” Architecture, you might guess that it’s not complimentary.
- Transcript of the Syndication Nation panel at Supernova, courtesy of Heath Row of Fast Company.
- Anil Dash’s proposal on learning from experience. As someone who once tried to create a site called iventing.com as a ‘business,’ I’m all for constructive methods for criticizing and then improving the world. Note: site is all gone but for a few lingering T-shirts. True dot-bomb, but at least it was never more than an evening hobby, pre-kids.
- Tim O’Reilly on The Open Source Paradigm Shift. I think I’ve read previous versions of this, since he notes he’s given this talk maybe 20 times in the last year or so. But good to have an ‘authorative’ copy.
- Engadgeter = a fan application. Better than fan e-mail, even!
- More reports of bloggers switching to Word Press.
- Google “proof” for the hypothesis that “men have baggage, women have issues.”
- Inside SSH, Part 2 would probably be more helpful if I read Part 1 first.
- Nothing like aiming high. Dan Bricklin on Software The Lasts 200 Years. We can only hope.
Note: I can’t imagine setting up a separate linkblog, even as much as I love the idea of everything in a database.