Autor: Tim Strehle

Fran – Serendipity and large video collections: „Serendipity is rarely of use to the asset manager, who wants to find exactly what they expect to find, but is a delight for the consumer or leisure searcher. People sometimes cite serendipity as a being a reason to abandon classification, but in my experience classification often enhances…

NYTimes.com – Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You: „Put free software into the little plug server in the wall, and you would have a Freedom Box that would decentralize information and power, Mr. Moglen said. This month, he created the Freedom Box Foundation to organize the software.“ (Via Dave Winer.)

Jack Vinson – In a change, it isn’t your point of view that matters: „In the context of the stories, it was „spirit killing“ the people who were subjected to these changes when their point of view was not considered. Whenever a change is introduced, the people who have created the change are the most…

Chris Spagnuolo back in 2008 – Conformity, innovation, and progress: „Some time later, Asch conducted his experiments again. This time, when every one of the confederates voted for the wrong answer, one stood up and said “That’s wrong!”. The test subject then easily identified the correct answer. Adding one supporting partner greatly diminished the power…

Eric Ries – A month is fifteen weekends: „Think about that for a second. If only they had one more day. Think how valuable a single day is, when used to its maximum potential. And now think how casually we throw a day of work away, when it’s just one tiny part of a huge…

Margie Friant – The DAM Metadata Disconnect: „Nothing beats a professional indexing team for improving accuracy and adding value to machine-generated metadata. For accuracy of retrieval, there is no replacement for a well-tailored controlled vocabulary used in combination with a well-designed indexing policy. This is one of the many places where information professionals excel. […]…

Miles Kehoe – Make your search engine seem psychic: „Autonomy, Exalead, Microsoft, Lucene, and even the Google Search Appliance, can all be improved with some custom code after the user query but before the results show up. Did the user type what looks like a name? Check the employee directory and suggest a phone number…

Alex Payne – Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms: „My team experienced a number of the usual problems one has with AIR applications: lousy performance, odd interface bugs, key combinations and UI elements that didn’t conform to our operating system. AIR apps exist in an uncanny valley between a web application and a desktop application,…

Jon Udell – Seven ways to think like the web: „Nobody else cares about your data as much as you do. If other people and other systems source your data from a canonical URL that you advertise and control, then they will always get data that’s as timely and accurate as you care to make…

Dave Winer – The journo-programmer: „Writing code, like writing long essays like this one, is not something you can do in an environment with lots of interruptions. One interruption at the wrong time can set you back by hours as the map falls out of your head. Programming and writing are both intellectual acts. So…