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Thursday, July 30,1998
Another fad that's even worse than the South Park mania. Beanie Babies. How pathetic is this? June, the Hitchhiking Mannequin. How to make you jealous: I'm reading an advance reader's copy of Stephen King's Bag of Bones, in stores in September. Dan Shafer takes some more stabs at Microsoft. Yeah Dan, you tell 'em! Wednesday, July 29,1998The CIAC has posted some details about a pretty serious MIME-Header bug that can be executed by your email program. A different look at Amazon.com. Tuesday, July 28,1998My brother Damien and I will be attending the Twins Days Festival on Saturday, August 1. If you're a twin, and will be there, email me and we'll get together. The Pit of Advertising Wonders. The OS Sucks/Rules-O-Meter, based on the Original Suck-O-Meter. I don't know about you, but I'm scared. Monday, July 27,1998Flabjab: Lance Arthur on Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Death. [Ahem, over 18 only, please.] Want to see how far off some of the industry's projections were 3 years ago. Published 5/1/95: Adage's Estimates of the dollar size of each segment of the interactive industry. Money.com: The AdMarket 50. For those stock-watching junkies. Ben Jenkins on gender equality. Sunday, July 26,1998Whoah. Something's screwed up here. When I go to Mackido, a technical news site for the Macintosh, I get a page for Concept Golf Technologies. [Update; My friend Joel Mueller at MacUpdate sent me a note saying Mackido has moved here.] Seattle Times: Inside Amazon.com Ferris Bueller WAV Sounds: 1, 2. Saturday, July 25,1998DraplinGram: Letter to the folks at Camworld Friday, July 24,1998Upside: What do XXX sites and Amazon Have in Common? An excellent primer for those just starting out on Unix, like me. SJ Merc: More Microsoft Anti-Competitive Antics Thursday, July 23,1998The Automatic Complaint Letter Generator. This is hilarious. Cringely: Microsoft Doesn't Care About Its Customers. No surprise here. Microsoft's stupid ISP tricks. Wednesday, July 22,1998USA Today: Russia's old computer ways hard to update. SFGate: Apple's making a comeback in the schools. C|Net: Microsoft Gives WebTV That NT Feeling. The Industry Standard has a great article on Jon Postel. Tuesday, July 21,1998I'm all for people trying to make money doing web design, but just because you have a computer, some software, and a domain name that doesn't make you a web designer. Should you be on this list? Every day, I run across more sites that deserve to be. If you want to be a web designer, take some visual cues from my friends at Spinfree, who were in High Five last week. Congratulations, Jason! Salon: Microsoft Caught With Its Pants Down? NY Times: Murdoch I really hate how college is becoming more and more like high school every day. Monday, July 20,1998Bens of the world: 1, 2, 3. Do you see the theme? I ran across another personal page of someone working in this crazy world of New Media. It's nice to know they have the same crazy sense of humor we have. See my favorite funny picture. Sunday, July 19,1998The Fontsite has some of the best articles on displaying type digitally I've ever read. Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. Fast Company: Why coming in second feels worse than placing third. Research Day: Computers & Writing
Derek, a guy I work with showed me this book. For anyone who writes as a career, purchasing this book is probably one of the best things they could ever do. Not only is full of remarkable advice, it's funny too. Do yourself a favor, buy this book! Salon: nottheirfirsttime.com User Friendly: The Comic Strip. Move over Dilbert...Foxtrot has a strip series that slams Windows 98 pretty hard. Friday, July 17,1998Here's a great interview with the creator of Linux. Excellent! You've heard about Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece, right? You, know, the movie he's working on abour artificial intelligence, working title is "AI." Well,here's the short story that inspired Kubrick. Oh man! This is so cool. What an interesting concept! If you don't see the potential right away, you haven't played with it long enough. Go ahead, create some nodes! Wow! Thursday, July 16,1998CamRant: Why TV Commercials Suck If you liked that rant, you'll absolutely love Bob Garfield's Ad Review on Ad Age. AOL has launched their redesign. I can't get into AOL's public web site right now, so here's a C|Net article. Hmmm....looks like a portal to me! Here's a great site if you collect old "pulp fiction" books from the 1940-50s. Biblio: The Curious, Magical Library of Umberto Eco Wednesday, July 15,1998I guess Windows 98 really sucks. Tuesday, July 14,1998The New York Times reports that Jakob Nielsen, one of the best known usability experts on the web, has quit his job at Sun and is embarking on a speaking and book-writing tour. Good move. PCWeek: Dear Bill, Thanks For Nothing. Freshmeat.net has a good editorial on the history of FreeBSD. Microsoft is up their old monopolistic tricks again. Confessions of an Online Newsaholic. Yep, that's me. Monday, July 13,1998Jakob Nielsen: Impact of Data Quality on the Web User Experience This South Park fad has gone a bit too far. Sheesh. Sunday, July 12,1998Weird Webventures in Online Advertising. Heh heh. A Web of Online Dictionaries. More than 500 dictionaries of over 140 different langauges. Wow. Muffinhead Productions shows us what GIF89a's on Prozac might look like. This site gives me a headache after prolonged exposure. Michael Sippey reviews Unleashing the Killer App, a book I'm currently reading. Highly recommended. News.com on Macworld. I went. I saw. I'm back. Impression: Good, but expected it to be bigger. Saturday, July 11,1998Marketing Computers: Stupid Marketing Tricks. Funny! Argus Associates, Inc. has a good Information Architecture Guide. A Framework for Multilingual Searching and Meta-information Extraction The Future Evolution of Web Searching: Towards Distribution Tuesday, July 7, 1998Writing the Self: Autobiography and Hypertext Hypercybersupercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Monday, July 6, 1998One of my favorite sections in Fast Company magazine is the Job Titles We'd Like to Have section. One of my online friends, Peter Merholz from Phoenix-Pop has the job title "Problem Solver." Cool. Tom Mangan, another online friend (who runs newsies.com) writes about thesmokinggun.com, a site that tracks and publishes obscure but fascinating documents that journalists often leave out of their reports. Not that I'm thinking about it or anything, but here is how to apply for a Pulitzer. Everybody who's anybody on the Internet has heard of Matt Drudge and his famous Drudge Report, however not as many people are aware of the Smudge Report. Even months later, I stumble across even more news articles about my situation from earlier this year. T. Bruce Tober, a regular contributor to the Studio B Computer Book Authors mailing list to which I'm subscribed (both work and home), has a good piece he wrote about using email as an interview tool. Sunday, July 5, 1998AtNewYork: Silicon Alley Yearling Banks on E-mail Games. Interesting! Email-based gaming. Internetnews.com: Internet Advertising Report For my British readers: A good link that lists New Media agencies and resources in the UK. Saturday, July 4, 1998
Check out the special edition business card I'm designing for Macworld NYC98. Hee hee. It's BuzzWord Bingo, fun for girls and boys. It's funny though, that those of us who write proposals for our executives are forced to add these words in, just so the execs can feel like they understand what the heck we're talking about. Ahhh....corporate life *is* very much like a Dilbert cartoon. Need to register an international domain? idNames, from the same folks that brought us InterNIC. (Warning: Registering an international domain is a lot harder than registering a regular .com domain. The prices vary widely and each country has its own set of rules.) Friday, July 3, 1998SJMN: Why the Power of Corporations Isn't Discussed. Now, take this article and substitute the word "Microsoft" everytime you see the word "corporation." Related reading materials:
Other Books I'm Reading: (Yes, I normally read this many books at one time)
What is a Cyber Lion? You'll be surprised. MetaJournals launches today. [The Art of Online Journaling] McTrademark™ (or McDonalds Own Everything) Dave Winer asks us to look at his 3 years of pictures. My favorites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Thursday, July 2, 1998DaveNet: Web Servers & File Systems. This is VERY important. (It looks as if Microsoft's operating system has some problems when asked to be a webserver. Two serious security holes in just as many days.) Yay! She says it much better than I ever could. It's the First Lady of Star Trek, Majel Barrett (no relation). And, of course, roddenberry.com. Industry Standard: Burning on the Inside. "i don't think michael likes to be around his employees. at least not the freaks in production." Hmmm....Carl just described the company I work for. I work in production. I've been called a freak. You do the addition. The San Jose Mercury News explains their big screw-up. Oops. Gregg Knauss (of Entirely Other Day) is back, with some great memories. At Vivid, considered one of the best Interactive/New Media studios around, they *encourage* people to try new things. What a simple brilliant concept. Wednesday, July 1, 1998Top 100 Rejected Smurf Names. Here are some screenshots for StoryServer 4 from Vignette. StoryServer is a high-end cross-platform content management tool used by sites that have hundreds of thousands of pages with numerous editors. Morons of the World, Untie! |
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Happy Independence Day. I'm spending the day working. It sure beats fighting the stupid tourist traffic. So expect lots of updates throughout the day.
