Writers' Houses. Gestalt Principles Applied in Design. By Michael Tuck Web designers, like other artists and craftsmen, impose structure on the environment.
Reductionism in Web Design. In the field of design, the phrase "complexity is the enemy" speaks to how keeping things simple makes our work more functional.
With the modern crop of technologies that dole out increasing amounts of functionality, it’s important that we take the time to ensure a balanced level between oversimplification to the level that insults our visitor’s sense of competency and extreme complexity which endangers their experience. In this article, I want to talk about the idea of reductionism — a process that improves the efficacy of our designs as well as the time we spend making and maintaining them. Cut Out the Fake Work and Focus on Projects that Really Matter. @cha0tic: That's the first rule of bad consulting.
Even if you throw up your hands and absolve yourself of responsibility, part of a consultant's job is to use your outsider status to clearly identify obstacles and be creative about circumventing them. As a consultant, my favorite part of the job is pragmatically and professionally hanging a lantern on the real causes of project holdups and defining a list of options and solutions for solving the problem, which for political reasons may be suicide for your internal client to do himself.
I don't want to stretch out a project for hours - I want to get it done as fast and as efficiently as possible, get out with stellar feedback and reference, and bump my hourly rate and client level based on that track record. I would much rather work 100 hours @ $150/hr for an Apple than 400 hours @ $50 for a local small business. Yahoo! : Can you please open source Delicious? Save Favorite Tweets. Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes]
For a couple of days now, we’ve been hearing rumors that the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team.
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Now Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the above Yahoo! Product team meeting slide that seems to show that Yahoo! Most Popular Free Mac Downloads of 2010. @nosnibort: I used to have a program called MacTheRipper, that was able to make lossless (as in no compression, big files) copies of movies.
It's since been discontinued but you should be able to find it with some effort. Handbrake really isn't that difficult, just read a tutorial. But MacTheRipper was dead simple. The Night Before Christmas. Social Media Tools and Trends Robert Scoble @scobleizer. Simon's Cat in 'Santa Claws' Kelvin Smith Library's Public WOW Project.
2010 All Goals. Online "Best of 2010" Book Lists. « older | Main Largehearted Boy Page | newer » Online "Best of 2010" Book Lists For the third straight year, I will be aggregating every online "best of 2010" book lists I find in this post.
As the lists appear online, I will add them to this master list, updating daily. Please feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me with a blog, magazine, newspaper, or other online media list I have missed. Read daily updates to this list. Revisit the 2009, 2008, and 2000-2009 (best of the decade) online book lists. 27 gen (favorite books)3:AM Magazine (books)50 Books for 2010 (best & worst fiction & nonfiction books)5B4 (best books) A.V. (bestselling books)Amazon.com (bestselling art & photography books)Amazon.com (bestselling audiobooks)Amazon.com (bestselling biographies & memoirs)Amazon.com (bestselling business & investing books)Amazon.com (best children's middle reader books)Amazon.com (best children's picture books)Amazon.com (bestselling comics & graphic novels)Amazon.com.
EIGHT THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT BEING A LIBRARIAN IN TWO ZERO TEN « Justin The Librarian. HITTING ROCK BOTTOM CAN MAKE YOU STRONGERI use MercuryApp.com to track my mood twice a day.
I’ve focused a good part of this year on my thoughts and feelings as a public library. Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review. Home Field Advantage - RedPint. A Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto. Stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2010 from flavorwire.com. Storygame. Dissertation Browser. Stanford Dissertation Browser Project Information The Stanford Dissertation Browser is an experimental interface for document collections that enables richer interaction than search.
Stanford's PhD dissertation abstracts from 1993-2008 are presented through the lens of a text model that distills high-level similarity and word usage patterns in the data. RT @TheLiB: New post on my blog - "Censorship is censorship, especially when it’s the Library of Congress" - The Library of Congress has blocked access on all of its computers to Wikileaks.
This action was taken, according to the Library of Congress blog, in direct response to a memo from the White House Executive Branch. According to a New York Times article, the White House has since said that it issued no such directives to block Wikileaks in any government agency. The Library: Three Jeremiads by Robert Darnton.
When I look back at the plight of American research libraries in 2010, I feel inclined to break into a jeremiad.
In fact, I want to deliver three jeremiads, because research libraries are facing crises on three fronts; but instead of prophesying doom, I hope to arrive at a happy ending. I can even begin happily, at least in describing the state of the university library at Harvard. True, the economic crisis hit us hard, so hard that we must do some fundamental reorganizing, but we can take measures to make a great library greater, and we can put our current difficulties into perspective by seeing them in the light of a long history. Having begun in 1638 with the 400 books in John Harvard’s library, we now have accumulated nearly 17 million volumes and 400 million manuscript and archival items scattered through 45,000 distinct collections. Dave Brubeck - Take Five (Extended) Nowhere Near Here. Why the Library of Congress Is Blocking Wikileaks « Library of Congress Blog. 1st Toast - RedPint. On Gratitude in Academe - Advice. By Thomas H.
Benton Academics are trained to have a negative outlook: We find fault with one another's work, with our institutions, with our society, and, most of all, with ourselves. Those tendencies confer some strength. The struggle of constantly testing ideas may lead to the most reliable conclusions. Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture. 10 Essential Websites for iPhone Photographers. iPhone photography is a growing medium, akin to Lomography in its cult status and the way it champions light-hearted, lo-fi, everyday shooting and off-beat effects. Like any good burgeoning artistic movement there are already a bunch of brilliant online resources aimed at iPhone photographers offering great galleries, talent showcases, app reviews, exhibition news and more. Read on for 10 great sites from around the web that we've bookmarked for iPhone Photographers and photo-lovers alike.
Your favorite not on this list? Please share any other great iPhotography sites you like in the comments below. Exploring the anti-social side of social media. Darien Library: The Great Good Place. HOW TO: Use Social Media to Enhance Your Event. Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer's Ass, which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump, and works for the Global Strategic Management Institute. Using social media to enhance events might seem like a no-brainer, but many conferences — even social media ones — fail to take full advantage of the low-hanging fruit that social platforms offer, like ways for attendees to communicate with each other, broaden their participation, share information and have fun.
If you’re planning a conference, here are some ways to incorporate social networking into your big day. 1. Why the 8 Hour Workday Doesn’t Make Sense. The 8 hour workday is one of those things that seems be something in place largely because it’s just the way we have done things for so long. David Sylvian The Librarian. Online course prepares librarians and library staff to provide effective reference services. Web Designers vs. Web Developers (Infographic)
A 4-Step Process to Learning When Your Organization Isn't That Into It. Digital Underclass: What Happens When the Libraries Die? Over the past several years we've seen an ever-increasing move towards digital media as the preferred way of distributing books, magazines and newspapers. Whether it's eBooks, websites or some other form of digitized distribution mechanism, the writing is on the wall for the printed "dead tree" medium. Within 20 years, perhaps even as few as 10, virtually almost all forms of popular consumable written media will be distributed exclusively in an electronic format. How to Write Better Emails: Business Collaboration News « I’m not a big fan of email. Actually, let me take that one step further: I hate spending time on email. 11 Twitter & Social Media Tools To Try In 2011. It's hard to keep up with all the tools available to help maximise Twitter and other social media platforms.
The 50 Best Inventions of 2010 - TIME. Discovery Face-Off Draws a Crowd, but Leaves Many Wanting More. Awkward Stock Photos.