Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

James Whittaker – The Anti Meeting Culture: “Vote with your feet by walking away from the more useless meetings. Just don’t go to those meetings where the organizer holds court. Anyone who likes the sound of their own voice that much doesn’t deserve your attendance. Build disdain for meetings into your DNA so that every…

Jon Udell – Networks of first-class peers: “It is possible for various of our avatars — our websites, our blogs, our calendars — to represent us as first-class peers. That means: – They use domain names that we own – They converse with other peers in ways that we enable and can control – They…

David Diamond on CMSWire – God Help Me, I’m a DAM Geek: “After two or three minutes of ample introspection, I realized that my passion was not actually about DAM (thank God). My passion is about quality content and the good things people do with the content they manage via their DAMs. […] I once…

Ralph Windsor at DAM News – Why Small Vendors Build Better DAM Software – The Implications For The DAM Value Chain: “If you are the boss of a DAM vendor, you are going to be intimately aware exactly what is happening with a good number (possibly all) of your clients – certainly all the key…

Dave Winer – Goodbye Google Reader: “I won’t miss it. Never used the damn thing. Didn’t trust the idea of a big company like Google’s interests being so aligned with mine that I could trust them to get all my news.” Totally agree. Doesn’t hurt me. I’m using NetNewsWire without its Google Reader sync functionality;…

I’m currently investigating a new architecture for our Web app user interfaces. My JavaScript skills had been badly-neglected, now I’m trying to catch up and form opinions on how to build elements that are reusable across pages and different UIs. Here’s my (still emerging) rule set: Build components, not pages. Components can consist of other…