As I get busier I find that my daily blog/news/web reading habits change. What used to be a leisurely hour or so now gets squeezed into 20 or 30 minutes. What falls out and what stays makes for a kind of embarrassing list. I read the funnies. Nine Chickweed Lane, Hello Kitty Hell, ICHC, and xkcd. …
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del.cio.us link feeds? no thank you.
I’ve had enough of the del.icio.us link feeds that are cluttering up my rss feed reader. People who used to post once or twice a week because they had something interesting to say are now dropping 2, 3, or more links into my reader everyday. I don’t need to follow their wanderings around the web. …
Glut — not at bed time!
I started Alex Wright’s Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages a couple of days ago. I have a number of other books/learning projects on my plate at the moment but I really want to get to this book while the discussions of it are still raging. So I thought I’d put on the bedside table …
Acronuym Amnesia — oh lord I meant acronym, ugh
This weekend I was sitting with my friend Kathy Gill at a house warming party and we got onto the subject of the evolution of markup languages. Aside from making most of the geeks in the vicinity cringe at “work talk” on a Saturday, we were running at top speed through the jungle of acronyms …
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TQR — Denton’s Three Questions and Four Principles and an Observation of My Own.
Recently I wrote about Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put it on the Web. In section 4 he introduces three questions and four principles that provide useful guidance when implementing navigation systems for information architectures that rely on faceted classification. The three questions step through some basic questions that you need to …
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