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Confessions of a Coronation Street addict
I don’t know how it happened, but sometime last year, I got addicted to the British soap opera, Coronation Street. It may have started during a particularly stressful period when, on a Sunday morning, I just needed to stare at the television – Coronation Street airs from 7:30 till 10 AM on the Canadian Broadcasting [...]
Post Vancouver DocTrainUX conference reflections
It’s the Saturday after DocTrainUX – the Vancouver version. The post-conference workshops are still taking place, but for those of us who were staffing our booths and making presentations at the conference for the last couple of days, guaranteed we’re in our offices, catching up on work. The conference speakers that I managed to sneak [...]
CMS Watch and Rockley Group to Publish “Content Component Management” CMS Report
I was delighted to read today that CMS Watch and The Rockley Group Inc. announced they’ve established a strategic alliance to create a new CMS Watch report evaluating Content Component Management technology, to help enterprises sort through the complexities of choosing the right tool for managing discrete components of content in a multi-channel world. Technical [...]
Two IDI contractors move to Europe
Two valued contractors who have done projects for Intentional Design during 2006 have recently moved to Europe – I’m hoping this isn’t a new migration pattern – and have settled in Germany and The Netherlands. All the best to Leif and Scott in their new ventures.
World Usability Day: making the world a little better
If you’ve ever wondered whether you were the only person in the world who couldn’t figure out how to use a product, open a package, follow instructions, World Usability Day is a little ray of hope in an otherwise generally unusable world. I’m one of those people; I assume that everyone else must have figured [...]
The best CMS: a consultant’s perspective
The question gets asked in many ways, but is often distilled down to: What is the best CMS? This can a dangerous question, particularly if someone were to try to answer it. That particular initial question is a bit like asking, “Which vehicle should I buy: a dump truck or a mini-van?” If someone were [...]
Ten Top Geek Business Myths
I found this link on SitePoint, a business/technology newsletter I often read. The blog post worth taking a look at. It’s the Top Ten Geek Business Myths, which applies as much to small businesses as it does to the types of businesses that rub elbows with venture capitalists.
Going to CANUX 2006
I decided to register for a usability conference – this time, not to present but to learn. It’s CANUX 2006CANUX 2006 in beautiful Banff. I’ve been to Banff a couple of times before – once I came face to face with an elk – and have attended a workshop at The Banff Centre, a beautiful [...]
Salim Ismail talks about syndication and the hidden Web
Salim Ismail, technology entrepreneur and all-around techno-visionary, agreed to chat with me about the hidden Web, estimated to be several hundred times greater than the visible Web, and how new syndication capabilities can change that. The third wave of content publishing – syndication – will change the face of the Web as we become able [...]
Getting used to our new offices
There are a few interesting things about being downtown, positioned between stuffy and dodgy. At the west end of our block is truly the business distrcit; at the east end is the beginning of the dodgy area. Our block is the line where the cultural textures blend. As a result, we’re in an “interesting” neighborhood. [...]
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