It was a busy day today, so at about 3pm I grabbed my bag and my phone and headed out to grab some lunch. Just as I got out the door, my phone rang. It was an unknown number.
I answered the phone, and a woman said she was from the Police.
She asked me to identify [...]

Yay! I just found out I’m going to Euro IA this weekend! The line up looks great, and I’ve not been to Berlin before, so there is much excitement at the moment. (It will help me come to terms with missing the OZ IA Retreat, at any rate). Hoorah!
Now, who else is going to be [...]

Introducing Collaboration Technologies to the Enterprise is a Challenge
Dennis McDonald’s ALL KIND FOOD - Managing Technology. I’m thinking about what makes Wiki’s work
(tags: collaborative socialSoftware wiki management)

Life With Alacrity: Intimacy Gradient and Other Lessons from Architecture
“Conflict: Unless the spaces in a building are arranged in a sequence which corresponds to their degrees of privateness, the [...]

Weblog: Monolog Boxes and Transparent Messages (Humanized)
oooh, a much yummier way to deal with error messages (and other messages).
(tags: errorManagement transparentMessages usability userexperience design)

How to run a great unconference session (Berkun blog)
some great tips here, and links to other useful ‘how to’ posts for unconference sessions
(tags: unconference barcamp presentation)

Having been a project manager in a past life, and still working day to day on projects, I watch with interest the deployment of a range of web based project management tools. In a lot of ways it’s like a dream come true. For most of us, Microsoft Project - the only real project management [...]

Ajaxian » UX at the Ajax XP
wow. check out this great UX lineup for the AjaxExperience….. awww… now I want to go!
(tags: ux userexperience ajax conference)

Bokardo » Learning the Intracacies of Privacy in the Facebook Blowup
“…privacy is much more complex. It’s about who you choose to disclose information to, how, and for what purpose. And the key word there is “choose.” People are willing to share all sorts of information, as long as they are in control.”
(tags: privacy facebook socialmedia [...]

10 Reasons for Girl Geeks to go to Conferences and 10 reasons why they don’t!
Sarah Blow throws around some ideas. My top reasons for not going to conferences is that I can’t afford the time (off work) or the money to attend them (they’re expensive and usually far away).
(tags: gender conferences)

Microsoft Director of Windows User [...]

Is it just me?
Adobe Acrobat has given me a lot of grief in the past few months… in lots of different ways that I don’t really understand. I find myself constantly having to kill Firefox if it opens a PDF in a browser window.
In the last two days I’ve had a PDF file open in [...]

As you do, I was lying in bed the other night when the thought struck me that if I found myself in an emergency situation, if I really needed to get an ambulance to where I was as soon as possible - I had no idea what number I would need to call.
OK, so I [...]