The street performer protocol. An interesting addition to the how do we pay for copyright material on the web debate. Did Stephen King read this before or after he did his web publishing experiment?
Archive for January, 2001
Useful summary of why screen and paper are different for readers and authors, and also how to train people to write for the screen / screen and paper.
Face-mail could be the next big thing. More wooden than Liz Hurley, and less attractive.
I think the tenor of this article is right: digital wallets only make sense once the average spend value becomes high enough.
Here’s an interesting page on Yahoo, showing the most forwarded e-mail news links. Not quite what you see on the news…
Fascinating article about the cat-and-mouse game that DirecTV plays with card hackers. ECM in real life!
A fascinating, if horrific, question: should virtual underage porn be banned? Related issue: should markters be allowed access to aggregated school access logs?
Really useful network tools.
How Jakob conducts usability studies from the inside. Useful stuff.
Here’s some interesting research from Herman Miller on work spaces.
Why software will usually suck and how to avoid it.
More free Tufte-inspired work.
Charts and the internet.
Here’s an interesting article talking about MojoNation, a fully peer-to-peer distribution system.
The Paris Metro Pricing system. Essentially have a first class that looks like the second class but costs twice as much. Only those people who really cared about it would buy first class tickets, thus ensuring a lack of congestion.
Great Clay Shirky piece on the Parable of Umbrellas and Taxis. One great idea that comes out: why doesn’t a P2P “we use your computer while you don’t” pay for the electricity you consume, or the extra bandwidth you need to run the application, rather than try to post micropayments?
There is some uncomfortable reading here for boutique web integrators, which is apparently what we’re supposed to call the iXLs, Viants and Scients of this world. Maybe “Datamonitor” should have gone for IBM when it had the chance!
Great article about writing for the web. There are a lot of links to other good articles, too.
Self-organising websites (think Slashdot / ePinions) are an interesting phenomenon. With the technology to spot click circles mentioned in the piece, they just might work.
Interesting piece on why mobile web services haven’t taken off yet.
A disposable cell phone. Extraordinary.
Astonishing: Morissey predicted Diana’s death.
Total copy protection? Make the memory encrypted and the path to the CPU encrypted - you never see the unencrypted stream on an external interface, so you can’t copy digital media, for example.
This could be gigantic. It’s not IT, but better. And it works now.
Here is a Gomez piece about the two-way web (they call it 2X, dave likes 2W2, I think).
Geek alert, but great fun. Last-ditch arguments for when you’re loosing a technical discussion.
Lots of good words in the marketing, but can Microsoft’s SharePoint live up to its billing?
How to design and deliver contextual audience research for web sites.
Navigation 101.
Do PowerPoint presentations work?
Fascinating article looking at the evolution of human-equivalent processing power in computers.
IBM’s Visual Age for Java has had some rave reviews, and I’m going to have to look at quite a lot of Java over the next year. Here is a look at how they wire up interfaces. This particular diagram is all you need to do to generate a working applet - no programming required. I don’t really understand it, but I’m sure I will one day.
“VisualAgeForJavaWiring”
