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links for 2009-05-27
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links for 2009-05-27

Matthew Alexander: Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Lies and Distortions Well worth reading this commentary...

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
From The Noisy Channel

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations

Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
From The Noisy Channel

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations

Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...

FAST Interns
From The Eponymous Pickle

FAST Interns

In 1997 Pete Blackshaw (Now exec VP at Nielsen) created an internship program call FAST at P&G which provided a means for interns to communicate directly withAn...

when teachers and students connect outside school
From Apophenia

when teachers and students connect outside school

In my last entry, I made a comment about the value of "cool" teachers interacting with students on social network sites. I received some push-back from non-educators...

Selling user experience
From Putting People First

Selling user experience

Daniel Szuc is a principal consultant at a Apogee Usability Asia Ltd, based in Hong Kong, and previously worked on a usability team for Telstra Australia. When...

Is design the preeminent protagonist in user experience?
From Putting People First

Is design the preeminent protagonist in user experience?

The latest issue of Ubiquity, a web-based publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), contains a fascinating account by Phillip Tobias on the...

Intelligence Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligence Blog

Former compatriot and correspondent, now co-entrepreneur and my small business consultant, Stan Dyck now has a blog. He is a very good researcher and writer.'...

Endings and Beginnings
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Endings and Beginnings

Hurray! It's over! Another school year in the books. AP and IB testing are complete. Final exams are submitted, printed and ready to administer. It's time...

NYT Appoints a
From The Noisy Channel

NYT Appoints a

What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...

NYT Appoints a
From The Noisy Channel

NYT Appoints a

What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...

Marketing for Nice People
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing for Nice People

Pamela Slim writes about Marketing for Nice People. ' ... it is incredibly difficult to strike a perfect balance between sharing information openly, without a....

President of Icann about the net
From Putting People First

President of Icann about the net

Dr Paul Twomey, president of the internet admin body Icann, talks about the net’s potential for change. “The mobile global internet is growing quickly to connect...

Hi-tech aims to improve lifestyle
From Putting People First

Hi-tech aims to improve lifestyle

BBC technology correspondent Mark Ward reports on a research project that uses Facebook, mobile phones, and energy meters to nudge people into living healthier...

Procter CIO On Top 50 List
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter CIO On Top 50 List

Worked with a number of Procter CIOs. It is a near tradition that they make the Informationweek top 50 list. Filippo Passerini is the latest, having now been'...

You
From Putting People First

You

Steve Calde, a principal design consultant at Cooper, writes in Cooper Journal on the implications of designing for first time use. “A person is a first-time user...

Reflecting on everyware, the era of ubiquitous computing
From Putting People First

Reflecting on everyware, the era of ubiquitous computing

Joe Lamantia, experience architect and strategist at MediaCatalyst, has recently been writing a column for UXmatters. Entitled “Everyware - designing for the ubiquitous...

The lamp posts on Brick Lane
From Putting People First

The lamp posts on Brick Lane

Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slow and Under Pressure and a self-proclaimed proponent of the Slow Movement, is the writer of the latest contribution to Vodafone’s...

Branding Means Better Search?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Branding Means Better Search?

Intriguing article about Microsoft's new search engine, provisionally called 'Bing'. Have not seen it or tried it. Regardless if it is better, they believe that...

One Laptop per Child Vision
From The Eponymous Pickle

One Laptop per Child Vision

I see that the article below, from the CACM, is now available in full text. Good update. Followed this from within the enterprise since 2005, hoping we could participate...
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