connectedness

Authenticity, Authorship, and Authority in Social Media

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Last week I attended the MESH conference for the second consecutive year and once again the issue arose around evaluating the use of social media technology by a commercial enterprise. To varying degrees it came up in three consecutive sessions, the most electric of which was a mosh pit with a panel of representatives from […]

Landing on Planet Drupal (or trying to)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

It’s been just almost a year since I focused my professional attention onto usability for web applications and launched this web site. I’ve known for about eleven-and-a-half months that, as a hybrid between a blog and a business web site, this site has significant issues. My goal was to see if I could mix my […]

An Unframed Incidental Art Tour

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

For a few weeks now my left brain has been absorbed in the details of implementing a client’s web site. Being wedded to a tight deadline and having already done all the loose, creative design stuff, I’m now focused almost exclusively on solving the challenges of writing computer code in what is still a new […]

The Magic of Community Experience

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Does technology have to be highly advanced in order to feel like magic?
An example of a very simple technology that produced a very powerful ‘magical’ experience came to mind last week while I was participating in a podcast at the Mesh 2007 conference. Jeff Parks arranged the podcast and invited a number of experts […]

Google Street View – The Way Finding of the Future?

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

A few weeks ago I spent two and a half hours standing (literally) at the counter of the US Airway check-in counter trying to secure a ticket to San Francisco using a free travel voucher. (No, the online efforts just didn’t work for this one. Another story.)
For most of that time I watched the […]

Revisiting the Old Future

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

I used to call web surfing a good cure for insomnia.
Back in the pre-broadband days I could barely stay awake for the length of time it would take to download an average web page. Many web sites defied the odds and loaded their pages with luscious graphics but it was sheer torture to watch them trickling […]

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