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August 2003 Archives
Simple pattern recognition could make email filtering much more useful
Jon Udell asks for his email filtering systems to use their pattern recognition to help him organise information rather than just deflect spam. read full post
Ratcliffe: social and political networks
Mitch Ratcliffe on emergent polities and the lessons we can draw from social networks in general read full post
Online Gated Communities White Paper
A white paper about online gated communities as a means of encouraging companies to engage in inter-organisational online collaboration read full post
Meaning, Use and Metadata
A thoughtful piece about metadata, meaning and semantic mark-up. read full post
Survey of some Open Content initiatives
Web Tools newsletter surveys some current debates and initiatives relating to open source content read full post
Facted classification in Movable Type
Faceted metadata for MT read full post
BBC Creative Archive: the ultimate in open source content?
The BBC is set to open up its back catalogue online in what promises to be the most important open source content initiative to date read full post
The OWL has landed
W3C first release for Ontology Web Language (OWL) read full post
Egovernment@large's enterprise architecture paper
"The essence of [the] paper is that before technology, data ... was our main asset. We need to go back to the data being the asset" read full post
Beyond Branding
Beyond Branding Blog: updates from the team who wrote the forthcoming book of the same name read full post
Email is dead!
Ross Mayfield says email is dead - long live syndicated RSS feeds!? read full post
Increasing use of synchronous online communication tools in organisations
Clay Shirky notices increasing frequency of Slashdot discussions relating to using synchronous online communication tools in companies read full post
Analysing Microsoft newsgroups
Microsoft's Netscan project has been diligently analysing patterns of usage on its own network of newsgroups. read full post
Sharing Thesauri
Thesaurus Interchange Format for the Semantic Web from SWAD Europe read full post
ontologies and dog food
Link to a post that recounts an experiment with ontology development. read full post
Sobering stats from the Small World experiment
Smallworld experiment reports some surprising findings about transmission of information requests beyond first-tier contacts in a social network read full post
Where now for User Experience practitioners
What does it mean to be user-centred and how can practitioners push these ideas more effectively? read full post
Lo fat Amazon lite
Amazon lite - an alternative interface for book buying read full post
Open source limitations and potential
Felix Stalder on open source as a social movement and also the limitations of current open source development methodology read full post
Corporate blogging and site redesign
Corporate blogging could make the consultation required in most site redesign projects easier and far more efficient, argues John Patrick, former VP Internet Technology at IBM. read full post
P2P filesharing system based in Palestine
A new P2P service in Jenin, Palestine, offers sanctuary to filesharers and claims to be beyond US law. read full post
New Economy Depression Syndrome
New Economy Depression Syndrome occurs when excessive reliance on technology diminishes human relationships at work and beyond. read full post
Divergent approaches to KM: managing content vs connecting people
Should KM focus on storing, sharing and re-using objects or on connecting people in context to share experience directly? read full post
Language as a body of agreements
The meaning of words is the product of ongoing negotiation through usage read full post
Behind the screen with independent designers
p i x e l v i e w offers a series of interviews with independent designers, developers and others involved in web design and development. read full post
Cognitive Psychology & IA
Cognitive Psychology & Information Architecture: From Theory to Practice read full post
Web Services to break the stranglehold of IT departments?
Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures will turn us all into application developers read full post
Some perceived pros and cons of company blogs
Company blogs - why they are a good thing and factors preventing uptake read full post
Self-representation and social networking software
David Pollard argues that each of us should be able to map our knowledge and our relationships in our own way read full post
From Simon Garfinkel's "Myth of Generation N"
"the real difference between teenagers and their elders is teens' willingness to experiment with computers, combined with their acceptance of the seemingly arbitrary conventions that are endemic to contemporary computer interfaces" read full post
Matt Webb: Time on the internet, and ur-shapes
Matt Webb is thinking aloud read full post
Wikis : unfocussed or misunderstood?
Clay Shirky defends Wikis against the charge that they are unfocussed. read full post
Semantic Web reality check
Semantic Web: sounds nice, but what are the costs and benefits? read full post
Innovation tools
Innovation, creativity and brainstorming resources from InnovationTools read full post
Knowledge management for front-line staff
This article looks at the way front-line staff operate, and how knowledge management can be used to meet their needs. read full post
An interaction architect speaks
Jess at ia/ notes Tog's call for a new breed: interaction architects .... and beyond. read full post
XML vocabularies are literary conventions
"The conventions of a literary genre, and the rules governing any of the XML vocabularies, being, at the end of the day, precisely the same thing" by Ben Hammersley read full post
Integration and development will become one
application developers should never write software - they should assemble it read full post
Imagine all the people...
There is not they, only us here in nowhereland. read full post
