Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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. […]…

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…

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…

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…

Phil Libin (CEO of Evernote) – Four Lessons From Evernote’s First Week On The Mac App Store: „If Evernote’s desktop clients were written in Adobe AIR, I’d be worried right now. The immediate popularity of the Mac App Store, and the iPhone App Store before it, reinforces my belief that in a world of infinite…

Naresh Sarwan at Digital Asset Management News – Box.net Announces Product Updates: Potential Threat To DAM Vendors?: „With some DAM vendors eager to tout the benefits of SaaS as a way to get around draconian IT departments and reduce deployment headaches, SaaS inevitably encourages increased commoditisation and makes it easier for the lower cost providers…

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…

Jack Vinson points to Solitude and Leadership by William Deresiewicz – Can’t get quality thinking when you are multitasking: „Deresiewicz makes the connection to one’s ability to think and develop their own opinions and thoughts on a matter. Multitasking prevents this, just as it damages quality and safety. And the solution is similar: give yourself…