Info-wrangling
- Bruce Sterling on the Information Economy
- the importance of managing one's bits
- Enterprise Information Architecture reading list (via Information Management Weblog)
- converting Word documents to XML can apparently get pretty nasty (ibid.)
- Generating user confidence with trigger-words in links
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained (via Mezzoblue)
- What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model? (via InfoDesign)
- Email Management Emerging as Critical Corporate Need
- Choosing the Right CMS: A Few Pointers
- MySQL develops new graphical admin tool
- Eurekster, We Have Found It -- "Friendster meets Yahoo! in a newly launched search engine"(via MarketingWonk)
- Monetizing Information (via Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Weblog)
- Attention, please -- "Thanks to technology, it's easier than ever to get distracted." (via BlackBeltJones)
- Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites -- "bookmark lists have become "information closets" that hold a jumble of sites people never return to. Only hyperorganized users sort sites into folders, clean out dead links or click on inscrutable addresses to figure out why they were bookmarked in the first place" (NYT article, free registration required) (via Tomalak's Realm)
- Movable Type For Policies & Procedures (via Column Two)
- Getting Your House in Order -- "Starting on the journey to content competency"(ibid.)
Web authoring
- HTML Forms Tutorial - Textarea & Select
- HTML Forms Tutorial - Method, Mailto & More
- XForms: XML Powered Web Forms - Chapter 1
- Proposed XHTML Module: Web Forms 2.0 (via BitWorking)
- Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms
- a list of web design resources
- CSS3 Media Queries: Background Stretch (via paranoidfish)
- HTML Sanitizer (ibi.)
- Pure CSS tooltips (via Mezzoblue)
- XHTML-Print: W3C Candidate Recommendation (ibid.)
- The Business Case for Web Accessibility (ibid.)
Tech
- 10 reasons why RSS is not ready for prime time (via MarketingWonk)
- New air software after near miss -- "Computer systems which direct Britain's air traffic are to be changed after a near-miss between two passenger planes"
- Viruses turn to peer-to-peer nets
- IT spending on security, CRM to rise in 2004
- non-consensual http user tracking using caches (via Mezzoblue)
- FTC says identity theft, online fraud on the rise
Biz/Marketing
- Two-faced capitalism -- "Corporate social responsibility is all the rage. Does it, and should it, make any difference to the way firms behave?" (via BusinessPundit)
- The Role of Business Analyst - a Need but no Room for HCI? (via InfoDesign)
- Bridging the Chasm Between IT and Marketing -- Written from the marketeer's POV
- Know Where Your Leads Come From? Think Again -- "Can you not measure the value of your Web visitors?"
- 10 tips and tactics for better selling
- Gary Price's List of Lists -- "LOL aggregates a large number of lists on companies, people, and resources that are freely available on the Internet. The lists range in content from the Top 100 Health Clubs to the Top Ceramic Companies by Segment." (via HBS Working Knowledge)
- The trouble with today's CRM
Squishy
- What Do You Expect? -- "It is a make-or-break question in terms of project success, relationship health, investment return and product or service satisfaction."
- Six Newer P’s to a Better Job Search -- "Job hunting has striking similarities to a marketing project."
- Overload and Overwhelm -- "Get into the habit of managing your promises."
- Executive on the Couch -- "What makes leaders tick or tock?" A psychoanalyst explains
- How Leaders Use Questions
- On Prudent Communication -- a fun bit of poetry by Ogden Nash
- The Influence of Corporate Culture on Intranets
- Four's a crowd -- "How do the members of a string quartet play together and tour together year in, year out, without killing each other?" (via kottke)
- Manager as Permission Giver (via Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Weblog)
- Why Sleeping On It Just Might Work -- "Many artistic and scientific milestones seem to have sprung into being when their creators fell asleep" (via Mezzoblue)
Other
- Here's the Price of Fame: $218.32 -- "Using his boyfriend's iMac and the editing program iMovie, (Jonathon) Caouette distilled his VHS home movies, his Super-8 experimental films, and a suitcase full of photos and audio tapes into Tarnation, a hybrid documentary that premieres this week at the Sundance Film Festival."
- Documentaries Draw on Animation
- a list of themed timelines from Wikipedia (via McGee's Musings)
- NASA's New Antiterrorism Mission -- "NASA researchers are using data gleaned from flight-safety records, including reports of sick passengers, bad weather and sleepy pilots, to build an antiterror database."
- Mystery Deaths on London Flights
- This Cow Is Certified Sane -- "Scientists looking for a surefire way to stop mad cow disease are trying to clone cattle that are genetically engineered to resist the deadly brain-wasting illness"