A few months ago I participated in a cultural probes study of communication at work. One of the things I had to do was writing about my ideal day at work. Found it...
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My ideal day at work...
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Site Focus Shifting Dramatically
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I have been running this blog for the past few years under the mantra of posting about any topic which I thought was worth writing about. There has never been a...
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Site Technical Difficulties
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If you have been commenting on the site and wondering why the comment had not posted, or if you have completed the “contact” form and not received a response...
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The Truth about Web Navigation
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In Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser's Address Bar?, Marshall probes a bit into how people use the browser's search box vs. the address bar. A lot of...
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9rules Relaunches and Refocuses on the Network
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The excellent 9rules blogging network relaunched today, opting to shift focus back to where it belonged all along: the content. All the superfluous features which were...
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Tinkering with the Site
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Those of you who follow me on Flickr should already know I have been tinkering with the site a little. About a week or so ago I uploaded a preview of some design...
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Russia To Study Martian Moons Once Again
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Robbie writes "The Russian space program once faced bleak prospects, receiving meager government funding. Meanwhile, the United States and the ESA continued to send...
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Odd Close Tab Behavior Using GrApple Yummy Theme for Firefox 3
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I have been playing with the Firefox 3 betas on my Windows box at work ever since Beta 4 was released for mass consumption. At home I am primarily a Mac user, essentially...
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FriendFeed Over Twitter?
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I am one of the FriendFeed early adopters, signing up for the service the moment I heard about it after they initially launched their closed beta. I’m not too sure...
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Microsoft Walks Away From Yahoo! Acquisition
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I am elated to read about the talks breaking down between Microsoft and Yahoo!. I can only imagine that most Yahoo! employees are relieved, or will be once they hear the...
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Newsroom economics
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Where would you put your money in a newsroom? We hear a lot of dread about the death of investigative journalism as newspapers shrink and perhaps die and losing...
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Richard MacManus: Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser's Address Bar?
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Traffic analytics company Hitwise released search market share numbers for dating websites in June today and two things were striking about the data. Ad supported free...
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Considering the User Perspective: Research into Usage and Communication of Digital Information
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"In this article we present the methodology and initial results from qualitative research into the usage and communication of digital information. It considers the...
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Considering the User Perspective: Research into Usage and Communication of Digital Information
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"In this article we present the methodology and initial results from qualitative research into the usage and communication of digital information. It considers the...
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DTrace on Linux?
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I’ve been meaning to write a post about DTrace, and Tim Bray’s tweet finally got me moving. It looks like some people are trying to make DTrace a topic for...
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Downrevolution.net shut down by Italian police.
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My ability to read Italian is non-existant but if you head to the Downrevolution site it has clearly been shutdown with a large semi-official notice on the site, as best...
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Softbank iPhone Pricing Plan Leaked?
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Has the Softbank iPhone pricing plan been leaked? According to What Japan Thinks a purported confidential memo detailing Softbank’s pricing structure for the iPhone...
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 7/7/2008
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Mysteries of time, and the multiverse Caltech's Sean Carroll probes some of the deeper unanswered questions in physics and cosmology. Push the button: Milgram rides...
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What Do You Have Under That Hood?
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Many of the hypervisors out today have specific hardware requirements in terms of the chipset supported on the host. Hyper-V, for example, requires a 64-bit processor...