A great article which discusses and looks at the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model. Contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company, …
Creating better 404 error pages
AlistApart have published a great article on creating better 404 error pages. A server 404 error page or message occurs when a website page is missing or cannot be found. …
Keeping Found Things Found
A great article from the AScribe Newswire on Web users and their ability to find, store and later recollect links and useful information. The article comments that keeping track of …
Digital Cameras are making us better photographers
A BBC technology article looks at some of the reasons why Digital Photography is making us better photographers and could be an end of film. Personally, I hope that digital …
An intro review of Windows Media Centre Edition
Anandtech have posted a really interesting and thorough introduction to the new set-top Personal Video Recorders (PVR). In particular the review, looks at Microsoft’s XP Media Center Edition (MCE), hardware …
Wireless hotspots in Australia
An interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald which looks at some of the open Wi-Fi hotspots in Sydney.
Information Design paper
An interesting paper by David Sless from CRIA titled, Theory for practice. The paper looks at five principles of Information Design – politics, position, parsimony, politeness, and performance and was …
The best of British Blogs
The Guardian have published a collection of the best British bloggin. One of my favourite, from the list is Rob Gardiner’s nyclondon.com, which contains a collection of stunning black and …
Photos of NYE 2003 Sydney Harbour Fireworks
A friend of mine, Eric forwarded a collection of photographs taken from the 2003 New Years Eve, Sydney harbour fireworks and lightshow. They are really awesome!
Merry Xmas everyone
Just wanted to wish everyone a happy Xmas and a safe New year. Will see you all in 2004 with a new and exciting project.
NCO/IT R&D – HCI and IM research papers
Challis Hodge has forward a link to some research papers by the NCO/IT R&D (the US National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development). The papers cover Human Computer …
3G User Interface articles
The 3GPortal have a collection of interesting articles which discuss interface design issues in mobile and portable computing. The website has some interesting links to articles on Design, Future developments, …
Can smart phones replace laptops?
Kevin Law makes an interesting comment in his blog site on whether smart phones and home servers will replace laptops by looking at how computing has been introduced over the …
The World Summit on the Information Society
The World Summit on the Information Society – Geneva 2003 is the first of two world gatherings by Head of States, Executive heads from United Nations agencies, industry leaders, national …
SCEE Technology Group PS2 Presentations
The Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) Technology Group have some interesting articles and presentations from the Australian Game Developer Conference 2003, Siggraph 2003, KRI Moscow and Game Developer World 2003. …