Researching web information architecture, usability, and standards

Friday, November 9th, 2007

If you are a web developer, web designer, web architect, web usability expert, in a similar role, or just have an opinion on the subjects of web architecture, usability, and standards, I need your help! I am doing a research paper on the arguments in favor of having large enterprise ...

The Four Pillars of the Web

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

My old high school was deeply involved in Round Square - an international organization of high schools that practiced education that strongly aligns with the following "pillars": Internationalism Democracy Environment Adventure Leadership Service My XML teacher mentioned this in the current week's discussion, almost as a passing thought, but I thought this was a poignant list that ...

Pimp my Reader

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I am a fan of the Google Reader application for managing my RSS subscriptions. The advantage of having all my feeds organized in one convenient web repository is proving to be quite handy (much as del.icio.us has been for bookmarks) and I like Readers' own ability to produce new RSS ...

Acrobat Reader Feature Requests

Friday, April 27th, 2007

I find it easier nowadays to use PDF documents and other screen-based formats for my reading needs than to use books. The reasons are that I can enlarge the fonts, I can scroll with minimal effort in a comfortable position (which helps with speed-reading), and text-to-speech features found in Acrobat ...

AppleTV and iTMS

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

I had my first look at an AppleTV yesterday. Two things I could say right off the bat: The user interface is spectacular Why would you want to show sub-par quality videos on HDTV?? The user interface was incredibly easy to use. The only complaint I have is that the remote is small ...