IAWIKI, a collaborative discussion space for the topic of Information Architecture. ::: http://www.iawiki.net/IAwiki
This is the 2nd Wiki style sites I’ve visited, the other being the Flash MX Wiki last week.
The Elements of User Experience
The Elements of User Experience – User Centered Design for the Web – is a book by Jesse James Garrett, an Information Architect based in San Francisco.
He has written some interesting and well known articles in information design, architecture and experience design.
His website also contains a great list of weblogs and useful resources.
Jason Kottke's Weblog
kottke.org is the personal site of Jason Kottke. He is a freelance web designer and developer based in NY in the US. ::: www.kottke.org
Jeffrey Veen's weblog
I came across today Jeffrey Veens personal weblog. He is well recognised web author and speaker on usability. He has written a book called “The art and science of web design” whcih I bought nearly 2 years ago now. It is a great book and well worth the read. ::: http://veen.com/jeff
Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction
An interesting article on MIT’s Alumni website commenting on new Information privacy laws. The article is titled “Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction: On the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a Poindexter” ::: http://alumweb.mit.edu/whatmatters/200301/
The article comments on the new US government R&D program which uses information technology for unprecedented surveillance on a massive scale. The program is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the military agency which sponsored early development of the Internet.
MIT & the Next Generation Computing
MIT wrote a series of articles in their OPENDOOR Alumni Association website in April 2002 on Next generation Computing. The 3-part articles titled, “Science of Computing“, “Human Centred Computing” and “Computing Environments” commented on the interesting aspect of technologies.
Future Cyberjournalism (1994, 1999)
After reading the 1989 article by Norman Meyrowitz (president of Macromedia), I decided to do a little more research and find a little more on this topic. After a little search I came across several interesting articles by Alison Stuebe.
Although not entirely related to his information centred article, these four 1994 essays covered the interesting topic of CyberJournalism – “Beyond the Hype: Notes on the Future of Cyberjournalism”
Another interesting article by Dennis Sellers on Sept 2, 1999 titled, “A look at the co-media future of print and the Web” ::: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/9909/02.media.shtml
The Desktop of Tomorrow
An interesting article I found at KLynch.com on the next generation desktop – The Desktop of Tomorrow a paper by Norm Meyrowitz from Brown University in July 1989″. The article/paper looks at the transformation ::: From User-Centered to Information-Centered Computing
Accessing FTP Sites from the OSX Finder
An interesting article on how to access FTP sites from the finder :::
http://lowendmac.com/x-basics/03/0211.html
Top 100 Interesting Recent Blogs
The top100 most talked about blogs today ::: www.technorati.com/cosmos/interestingblogs.html
The Photoblogs.org website
Photoblogs is a great site when looking for photoblog website. A photoblog is similar to a blog but is updated regularly with photos. ::: http://photoblogs.org
The Movable Type spotlight sites
The full list of Movable Type spotlight websites. The sites mentioned are a selection of interesting and notable sites using the Movable Type system, they include everything from blogs to galleries ::: http://www.movabletype.org/spotlight-full.shtml
Mike Pugh and Vagabonding
I visited a really great travel site by Mike Pugh. He is travelling around the world and is documenting his travels in his website Vagabonding.com with photos and video. He is currently near India is about 138 days into his trip. ::: www.vagabonding.com
Creative Commons licensing
Copyright, ownership and the Web has been an interesting topic not necessarily understood, particularly when you are dealing with international countries and their respective individual laws.
If you live in the US there is a website called Creative Commons which offer free licenses and information on licensing your material. ::: http://creativecommons.org
The website has a good SWF movie which illustrates some of the problems associated with copyright material.
Kevin Lynch starts his Weblog
Kevin Lynch, the Chief Software Architect at Macromedia has started writing a Weblog
www.klynch.com.
It is great reading his Software story and reading his Foundation articles. These articles are a collection of some of the most influential books, articles and papers which he has come across.
Many thinkers and inventors developed the foundations that influence what we do today, with a tremendous amount of innovation beginning in the aftermath of World War II. Some that inspire me beyond the recent decade include:Kevin Lynch
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (July 1945)
Man-Computer Symbiosis by J.C.R. Licklider (1960)
Spacewar by Stephen Russell, Peter Samson, Dan Edwards and Martin Graetz, together with Alan Kotok, Steve Piner and Robert A. Saunders. (1962)
Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework by Douglas Engelbart, SRI (October 1962)
Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System by Ivan Sutherland, MIT (1963)
Xanadu by Ted Nelson (1965)
The Computer as a Communication Device by J.C.R. Licklider (1968)
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks, lessons learned from IBM’s System/360 project (1975)
The Xerox Star: A Retrospective about the team of Alan Kay, Larry Tesler, Charles Irby, John Warnock, Chuck Geschke, Charles Simonyi, Butler Lampson, David Liddle, Ed Satterthwaite, and many others at Xerox (1975-1981)
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, about a team building a new computer at Data General (1981)
Inventing the Lisa User Interface developed by Larry Tesler, Bill Atkinson, and the Lisa team at Apple (1979-1983)
Macintosh developed by Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson, Susan Kare, Bud Tribble, Burrell Smith, Mike Boich, Joanna Hoffman, Mike Murray, George Crow, Bruce Horn, Steve Capps, Caroline Rose, Jef Raskin, Steve Jobs and many more (1984)
The Desktop of Tomorrow by Norm Meyrowitz, Brown University (July 1989)
Information Management: A Proposal by Tim Berners-Lee, CERN (1989)
The Computer for the 21st Century by Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC (September 1991)