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Take breaks! A simple way to improve your heuristic evaluation results
Laura Faulkner has written an article that encourages usability professionals to take breaks when conducting heuristic evaluations. To quote: The moral of this story? You may find yourself more effective in performing heuristic or expert evaluations if you divide them... From Column Two on June 18, 2005 at 9:47 p.m..

Beginner's guide to moderating a usability study
Kevin Cheng has written an article on moderating a usability study, aimed at those new to usability. To quote: Here are some considerations and steps I usually take when I'm moderating a usability test. For those who are experienced, I... From Column Two on June 18, 2005 at 8:45 p.m..

Wikitorial Fork (Ross Mayfield)
I was quite skeptical that the LA Times Wikitorial experiment could foster anything but an edit war. Especially when the first editorial (and Wikitorial) was on war itself. But as it turns out, it is a wiki, and the... From Corante: Social Software on June 18, 2005 at 5:46 p.m..

Two as a metaphor
Bev Trayner gets appropriately complex about the intersections of communities, languages, norms and metaphors. Here's a snippet: Recently at two different conferences which represent two different international communities I belong to I was aware of the genre boundaries we are crossing in our work on communities, technologies and learning. The combination of different modes and technologies and a focus on emerging processes and diversity changes the whole nature of communication. It also changes our ways of of working together, what gets done, whose voices get heard, and where power lies. From Joho the Blog on June 18, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..

EdTech Posse rides!
Rob Wall. blogmaster and more recently podgod, has started a podcast that he calls the "Ed Tech Posse." The idea is to gather several people together to talk about educational technology issues, in the hopes that an ensemble group will... From Rick's CafÃ© Canadien on June 18, 2005 at 2:53 p.m..

The Importance of RSS
(via Jenny Levine) Great essay by Kevin Hale on why RSS is becoming even more important as search engines like Google get increasingly ineffective because of all sorts of spammers that are devaluing search results. I've noticed this of late as well, that a lot of the results that come up toward the top in Google searches lead to ad filled link catalogs. Couple that with the weblogged News on June 18, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

Flickr Album
Flickr Album is an alternative way to view photos from Flickr. Written in Flash, it takes advantage of the Flickr API to display photos in an album view where you drag the corner of the page to turn the page. Albums can by displayed using a user name, or you can create albums based on tags. Kind of a fun little hook into Flickr. (Via plasticbag.org.)... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on June 18, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..

Two books, two whines
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers was worth reading, but I felt used. Paul Erdos was a completely fascinating eccentric who proved that not all mathematical geniuses do their important work by the time they're 30. I won't go through his bundle of oddities because the author, Paul Hoffman, does a good job enumerating them through anecdotes. But don't expect a biography: Hoffman doesn't get much past anecdotes. That's not, however, why I felt used. First, the title is a lie. Hoffman makes it clear that Erdos loved his mother, loved little kids, and loved — in his own From Joho the Blog on June 18, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Open source in education - something has got to change
Der Eintrag hat eine Geschichte, die auch mit der Pressemitteilung von WebCT zusammenhÃ¤ngt, zukÃ¼nftig stÃ¤rker die InteroperabilitÃ¤t mit Open Source Software zu verfolgen. Der Autor, James Farmer, hat einen klaren Standpunkt: "I contend that our universities, schools and other educational... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 18, 2005 at 9:52 a.m..

What the hell is your BIOS talking about, anyway?
If you're a PC owner and have looked under the hood at the BIOS, you may be a teensy bit confused about whether you should "Allocate IRQ to PCD VGA" or enable "Palette Snooping." The Rojak BIOS Optimization Guide will explain it all to you. Then it's up to you to decide if you want to risk varying from the defaults. Most of the entries come from 2003, and the information is not specific to particular motherboards, but I've found it to be a good place to start. [Technorati tag: bios]... From Joho the Blog on June 18, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..

Implementing a Global Technology Platform
ING, einer der weltweit grÃ¶ÃŸten Finanzdienstleister, hat eine globale Lernplattform - "the ING Learning Center" - fÃ¼r 110.000 Mitarbeiter ausgerollt. Der Business Case, der diesem Projekt zugrunde lag, entspricht selbst in Details genau dem, was in den letzten beiden... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on June 18, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Dell Bullish on Mac OS? - Jim Wagner, Internet News
It seems that since Apple decided to move its processors away from IBM's PowerPC and onto Intel other companies might be looking for a way to get in themselves. Michael Dell, Dell founder and chairman, told Fortune magazine Thursday he wouldn't mind addin From Techno-News Blog on June 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Not long left for cassette tapes -BBC
Some 40 years after global cassette production began in earnest, sales are in terminal decline. From its creation in the 1960s through to its peak of popularity in the 1980s, the cassette has been a part of music culture for 40 years. But industry experts From Techno-News Blog on June 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

Blogs lauded in 'freedom awards' - BBC
The best weblogs on the net which have defended freedom of expression have been recognised in the Freedom Blogs awards, voted for by the public. The seven best blogs out of 60, shortlisted by Reporters Without Borders, represent six locations. Winners inc From Techno-News Blog on June 18, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..

GPL Programming: A Lucrative Hobby
After completing my first year of college, this summer I would like to make some money.  I have worked low paying summer jobs like most people have, but this summer I can do better than that.  I can set my own hours, do enjoyable work, and make more money than I would at the grocery store. Programming has been a hobby of mine for years.  And since it was just a hobby, I've always released my work under the GNU General Public License (GPL) so I would get more users and more feedback.  The obvious way to get paid from programming would be to sell your software.  But From kuro5hin.org on June 18, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

The Case of Theresa Schiavo
That's the title of a piece by Joan Didion in The NY Review of Books in which she insists on finding the complexities, ambiguities and unaddressed questions in the Schiavo case. Whatever your position, you'll come out of the article less sure that you were right. [Technorati tags: Schiavo JoanDidion]... From Joho the Blog on June 17, 2005 at 11:48 p.m..