Clash of the Titans: Agile and UCD :: UXmatters
Are agile methodologies and user centric design incompatible?
(tags: agiledesign UCD)

Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Shared Phone Practices
What happens when people share an object that is inherently designed for personal use?
(tags: ethnography nokia mobile sharing)

TIME.com: Person of the Year: You — Dec. 25, 2006 — Page 1
It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power fro
(tags: web2.0 SocialSoftware)

CaseCamp on Second Life - My Boston Trip Relived Virtually
Leesa Barnes gives a great run down of a newbies experience in Second Life.
(tags: secondlife)

Yes, I know… we keep having this discussion, but the question doesn’t go away. It’s been around the traps again this week (see here and here).
I particularly loved two ideas that Shelley put forward a recent post:
programs like agile computing… are trying to compensate for behavioral characteristics that we’re finding out, now, cause more harm [...]

Search 2.0 - What’s Next?
a great round up of forward movements in search, including UI enhancements
(tags: search interactiondesign web2.0)

Another sideways look at Agile, passing Waterfalls on the way
“Using Agile, you feel insecure (-ish, especially if you’ve not tried it before) at the start of a project, and satisfied at the end. Using Waterfall you feel good at the start and crap at the end. If there is an end.” I predict I’ll [...]

OK. I’ve managed to avoid the whole meme thing pretty well for the past year or so, but I can’t really ignore being tagged by David, so bear with me. I’ll keep it brief.
Five things you probably don’t know about me.

I’d rather be a concert pianist: I used to be a pretty reasonably pianist back [...]

Who knew a games controller could wreak such havok. Head over to WiiHaveAProblem and be astounded by the number of TV sets that people have taken out when they’ve been playing with their new Wii and the controller has been thrown out of their hands with such force as to break the strap. Carnage ensues.
What [...]

1 Pixel Out » Audio Player Wordpress plugin
I’m looking for a good wordpress plugn that will give me a nice audio player that i can use in posts.
(tags: wordpress plugin podcasting mp3 audio)

El Rincón de Boriel » The WordPress XSPF Player Plugin
Looking for a good Wordpress audio player plugin
(tags: wordpress plugin podcasting mp3 audio)

Wimpy - [...]

Two clever companies noticed I was doing something that was not making them money recently and emailed me to let me know they’d noticed. And then they tried selling me more stuff. As though I must have just got bored or forgot what I was doing when I was supposed to be spending money. As [...]