Year: 2006

  • Hacker exploits Blogger bug to post fake entry to Google blog

    Film at 11: Official Google Blog: About that fake post

  • The Democrats Will Have to Be Detained

    I’ve put together a couple of things President Bush has revealed recently about the Democrats in Congress; it is awfully sobering, but very clear, what he is going to have to do. (My italics.) Bush: [I]f somebody from al Qaeda is calling into the United States…we need to know…what they’re planning …. 177 Democrats voted…

  • Open wifi spoofing

    Dan and I flew into JFK on JetBlue last night and we noticed that JetBlue offers free wifi in their waiting area, but while trying to access this service we noticed several open peer-to-networks labeled “Jet Blue hot spot” or variations on that name. None of these were the actual free access point (which was…

  • Part two of the chapter on competitive analysis from Dan Brown's 'Communicating Design'

    Digital Web has now published the second part of the Competitive Analysis chapter from Dan Brown’s book, Communicating Design.

  • Freehand and GoLive officially deprecated

    Todd Warfel reports that the inevitable bakeoff inside the Adobe-Macromedia merger has resulted in the winding down of FreeHand (in favor of Illustrator) and GoLive (in favor of Dreamweaver). (btw, I know this was in May – so I’m slow on the uptake – so sue me!)

  • What to do about clickfraud?

    This Slashdot article on an IE/Y!IM clickfraud exploit makes me wonder if the whole basis of online advertising is under assault, if there’s a chance we could see the sort of collapse that followed the banner-ad kiting practices of bubble 1.0, and if some new models of search engine ad-word placement are going to have…

  • Bad ad placement

    I was perusing my friend Levi Asher‘s digg page (he is “asheresque” there and elsewhere online), and I stumbled upon this nearly not-safe-for-work blog entry about a particularly unhappy juxtaposition of banner ads.

  • The real mistake in the first moon words was ruthlessly suppressed.

    I first reported years ago the real mistake in the first moon words, and that mistake’s potentially staggering costs to our nation. When I give you the details, the words Why didn’t the biggest newspapers in America grab this story and run with it as front page news? will leap to your lips! This is…

  • Flat Daddies

    Warning: This

  • The return of the son of Friday UX Links

    We’re back… now, with less context! Better life through design Michal Migurski reviews Amazon’s EC2 6 Ways to fix a confused information architecture (useit.com) Push my button (beyond generic Submit buttons) Coding interviews with OneNote (I admit I’ve never cracked open OneNote) A discussion with danah boyd get caught up on what the wonder woman…

  • What did Bush do about Al Qaeda in his first 8 months?

    After the back and forth ‘tween Bill Clinton and Condi Rice this past week re who did what to stop Al Qaeda pre-9/11, Countdown took an interesting look at how the Bush Administration’s spent its first 8 months. The transcript is posted online, as well as a video that’s well worth watching. Note: The meat…

  • Hiring renaissance talent

    In response to a thread on the IxDA mailing list about how job ads seeking “Leonardo da Vinci” (that is, someone who can design, do illustrations, and write code) may be trying to pack too many requirements into a single req, Dave Rogers posted a link to an article her wrote nearly a year ago…

  • Class consciousness in web design

    Chris Fahey is in the middle of publishing a series of blog posts on the topic of class and web design. (In part two, he asks What class are you?.) Interesting topic (and somewhat taboo, here in the States, at least).

  • Get-rich-quick blog spam

    It’s been interesting to watch the evolutionary dance of spam and blogs. Comment spam. Trackback spam. Splogs. Now here’s a bit of email spam targetting the would-be pro blogger: >Hi, > >I don’t like to waste valuable time of creative blogmasters. >But I cann’t resist myself from this tempting offer too. Hello, you may know…

  • Jared Spool on 'embraceable change'

    Last year, Jared Spool wrote an essay about a disruptive intranet redesign in which he used the analogy of finding your well lived-in home entirely changed on waking up one morning (Designing Embraceable Change). In it, he discusses how to make it easier for people to embrace changes in their information spaces: To design for…

  • Getting tough, within reason.

    “Don’t even think about it! “Uh, well, of course, you can think about it. I mean, you couldn’t resolve not to do it, if you couldn’t think about it. “But, don’t even contemplate enacting it!”

  • Survey results for third edition of the "Polar Bear Book" published at the IA Institute site

    Over the last few months I’ve posted notices here whenever Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville (the legendary authors of the first two editions of O’Reilly’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, aka the Polar Bear book) have announced another survey for their third edition. Now the IA Institute has published all of the survey…

  • Reuters grant underwrites NewAssignment.Net budget

    Here’s Jay Rosen’s announcement of a $100,000 grant for his NADN project: PressThink: Editing Horizontally: Thanks to Reuters, NewAssignment.Net Can Hire Someone My first thought was, “This sounds like a job for George,” but George already has a job…. I like that Rosen wants to have both a paid editor and a paid “network wrangler”…

  • Interactive CSS reference

    File under useful: CSS 2.1 Reference : Cultured Code

  • Maps for the masses, now with custom stylin'

    Tracy Rolling, the community advocate for Platial.com (“the people’s atlas) recently sent me a heads up about a new styling feature for the DIY maps that Platial makes it so easy to, er, make. And, by the way, I think it’s kind of cool that so many of these new companies have community outreach people,…

  • The case for real-looking wireframes

    In Boxes and Arrows, Stephen Turbek suggests making wireframes look as realistic as possible, and argues that the old idea of clearly distinguishing wireframes from design is actually counterproductive (Real Wireframes Get Real Results): How many times have you been asked, “So, is the new website going to be black and white too?” after presenting…