Archive for February, 2000

ICANN Launches Site for

Published by Tom on 29/02/2000 in General. 0 Comments

ICANN Launches Site for New Membership: good for geeks. One of the most important pieces of internet plumbing is the Domain Name System (DNS). It’s this that allows tankertown.editthispage.com to be translated to the numbers that computers love so much. It’s vital that the decisions about what happens to DNS are not hijacked by corporates. The ICANN’s decision is also a fascinating attempt to create a fully-distributed democracy.

This is a great article about the crazy nature of many of the new websites being thrown up every day. Boom and bust?

Here’s a simple test of the system for our PR guru. We can put links to “Datamonitor” in as well. Or link directly to the press center.

“We tell our design team,

Published by Tom on 24/02/2000 in General. 0 Comments

“We tell our design team, that when they go into a meeting with a client, they should know at least 2 reasons why they made any one design decision. If you don’t have at least 2 good reasons, then don’t try to defend that design. It’s not about preferences.” This is excellent advice.

It just keeps coming: The relational database paradigm explicitly prevents people looking for related items! Often, you go into a library and search by Dewey code. What you then want is a series of related items to browse - this is hard to do in relational databases without explicit editorial adjacency.

Interesting article from Upside that is probably the hottest link for today!