Year: 2007

  • links for 2007-04-30

    GoLoco GoLoco is a service that helps people quickly arrange ride sharing between friends, neighbors, and colleagues. We also handle online payments from passengers to drivers for their share of the trip costs. (tags: cars community cool geo network reputation sharing ridesharing environment social car transportation) WNYC – New Sounds: West Africa Unwired (April 26,…

  • links for 2007-04-25

    George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war – Los Angeles Times McGovern takes Cheney to the woodshed (tags: bush impeachment iraq news world politics 1972 nixon mcgovern rove) Dr. Bloglove, or how I learned to stop using RSS and love the web i also abandoned my RSS reader several years ago and…

  • Never Stab a Stabber

    People without integrity have been indispensable to Bush, but they may also lack the internal loyalty that would make it safe to let them go. See Washington Post

  • Avoid Tagged.com like the plague

    On the SIGIA-L discussion list people are talking about a spammy social network site called Tagged.com. I only know about it because I received an invitation from an unfamiliar sender to a never-used spam-honeypot email address of mine. I looked at the site, it seemed shady, so I ignored it. That was months ago. Now…

  • links for 2007-04-23

    Sex and the internet | Devices and desires | Economist.com social software challenging pr0n for preeminence online? (tags: internet networks sex social socialnetworking statistics porn trends web) Yes, you should be using personas (disambiguity) “personas should be edge cases” (tags: development ux research design personas requirements) Social Software Building Blocks / nForm / Customer Insight,…

  • Amazon adds social networking

    Following on its adoption of tagging last year, Amazon has now added a friends feature. At least I assume this is something new. I hadn’t heard of it before. The first clue I had that such as social networking functionality had been introduced was receiving an invitation in my email from a writer friend of…

  • links for 2007-04-21

    ‘Pipe organ’ plays above the Sun much like plucking a guitar string (tags: astronomy music science space acoustics guitar)

  • I'm stuck

    My first article at a new music blogzine called Stuck Between Stations went live today. It’s called Goodbye, Ruby Grapefruit. Joe Bob says check it out.

  • links for 2007-04-17

    YUI: CSS Grid Builder amazingly useful grid layout tool for CSS (tags: css design development free grid yui tools layout yahoo webdesign) Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life speaks for itself (tags: culture fun funny humor parody satire secondlife) Dear Internet (Ftrain.com) we get Paul Ford back, now that his…

  • links for 2007-04-14

    Flickr Community Guidelines social web pattern exemplar (tags: flickr community guidelines rules blogging copyright images moderation society online patterns designpatterns design-patterns social web socialweb livingweb pattern example exemplar)

  • Did Bush Trade Kirkuk for Kurdish Brigades in the Baghdad Surge?

    I’ve had Kirkuk on the brain for quite a while now. Since I am not a pro, I figure I’m willing to be off base or completely wrong. Besides, it’s too long to read. So, since I have thought about it a lot, this is my Sharing Time contribution for today: It seemed like a…

  • links for 2007-04-13

    About the Portland Form A method for writing Alexander-like patterns (tags: patterns design-patterns designpatterns pattern–languages pattern-writing) Not On This Wiki things the first wiki deliberately doesn’t support (tags: wiki html css moderation version+control)

  • links for 2007-04-12

    Moderation Strategies | Main / PatternLanguage Clay Shirky pattern library, largely focused on social patterns (tags: collaboration community design ia patterns socialsoftware wiki) Little Springs Mobile Pattern Library: Mobile User Interface Design Patterns A mobile user interface pattern library wiki originating from Chapter 6 of Designing the Mobile User Experience, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.…

  • Email messages don't disappear that easily

    A lot of political blogs are reporting today that White House staff and operatives evaded regulations and used outside email services, such as their RNC accounts, resulting in the deletion of reportedly five million email messages: BREAKING: White House lost Over FIVE MILLION e-mails in two year period | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in…

  • Steal More from Renters!

    “[K]ey Senate Democrats said Wednesday that hundreds of millions of dollars of new federal aid may be needed to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure.” Washington Post, 4/11/07 (Link below.) So, the most progressive legislators in the country say home owners should get more public money. Renters, rolling in dough, will once again get nothing.…

  • links for 2007-04-11

    Design Patterns: An Evolutionary Step to Managing Complex Sites 2003 article from Jared Spool (tags: design design-patterns patterns pattern interface interaction ui) Snipshot: Edit pictures online just like it sounds (tags: photo editor web2.0 tools online photography photos) Collection: Design Patterns factoryjoe’s pattern collections (tags: designpatterns design-patterns design patterns webdesign ui inspiration) Noise Between Stations…

  • I'm impressed by pobox.com's customer service

    I’ve been using pobox as a mail forwarding service since 1995 (I think I read about it in Wired and I was sold on the idea of a middle layer between my correspondents and my potentially ever changing email addresses). When I started owning my own domains I simply forwarded custom (“vanity”) email addresses from…

  • links for 2007-04-10

    Bayeux Tapestry animated (on YouTube) (tags: video medieval animation tapestry art craft) Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface ‘information’ pushes back against ‘interaction’ (tags: design article usability interface software programming graphics toread interaction information terminology concepts frameworks patterns)

  • links for 2007-04-09

    “Design Patterns” Aren’t Critique of the ‘Gang of Four’ style design patterns arguing that they are more mundane and less useful and inspiring than the Christopher Alexander (“original”) concept of patterns for architectural design. (tags: patterns metapatterns programming design architecture design-patterns)

  • links for 2007-04-07

    JesusPets If Jesus returns tonight, who will feed your pets tomorrow? (tags: sacrelicious religion humor pets funny jesus christianity) “Self-Googling” Isn’t Just Vanity; It’s a Shrewd Form of Personal “Brand Management,” Says UB Internet-Culture Expert – UB NewsCenter Alex Halavais bought his own name from adwords to track how often people google him. (tags: identity…

  • links for 2007-04-06

    Identity 2.0 i still don’t know dick, but i should (tags: identity web2.0 identity2.0 ID digital design openid socialsoftware presence digitalID)