Robert Denton - web strategist and designer

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.—John F. Kennedy

That Google is the most popular search engine is well known… just look at your weblogs for incoming referrers.

They have published the 2005 Zetgeist list and it’s a fascinating snapshot of data culled from what is popular in search terms and when.

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist

Note that Myspace is the #1 gainer—it’s a free social blogging [...]

mac google video viewer – Google Search

I’m having a horrible Google week.

First, the content index for the entire bowdoin.edu domain was deleted after a request to remove one URL from their cache.

Why is this bad? We use Google search for our web site… which means we currently have no search.

What is our recourse? Wait. [...]

Paul Graham on open source and blogging | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

This is a great recounting of what sounds like a fun keynote to listen to.
Here are some excerpts:

People work harder on things they like
The standard office is unproductive
Bottom-up works better than top-down

I hope this becomes an essay because there’s lots in it that’s [...]

Witti Blowfish: ITL05 Project Links
This blog is for the musings of the inaugural group of faculty who collaborated on EDUCAUSE’s first Instructional Technology Leadership Institute held at Penn State University in July 2005.

What is Feedreader? | Feedreader – Free RSS / ATOM newsreader

Add this to the RSS page.

Also, don’t forget that RSS readers are for geeks and people who think they use RSS.

IMO, long range, RSs will be for sharing information between sites and not to scrub many sites. Rather, design matters—even if you read [...]

The Selfish Class
This paper takes a code%u2019s-eye view of software reuse and evolution. A code-level artifact must be able to attract programmers in order to survive and flourish. The paper addresses the question of what an object might do to encourage programmers to (re-)use it, as opposed to using some other object, or building new [...]

Handling RSS in the browser :: Adam Kalsey

I have often thought that we have to have RSS because the few geeks/savvy visitors who get it will want it and think poorly if we do not offer some feed.

Why don’t more people use RSS? Because it involves something other than Internet Explorer.

Adam Kalsey continues a conversation [...]

Movalog: XML-RPC & forms

Have not examined this yet… I wanted to implement the digests this way. They got built another way but this idea could still come in handy.

I have known the meta-how to do this but never did a prototype.

Adactio: Journal – Progressive enhancement with Ajax

A Simplified Model for Facet Analysis
The purpose of this study is to propose a simplified model for facet analysis that incorporates the principles of facet analysis proposed by both Ranganathan and the CRG. The purpose of this simplified model is to act primarily as a teaching tool to introduce LIS students to a consolidated, and [...]

Based on the php discussion concerning the installation of an image gallery tool I have a lot of thoughts.

SimpleViewer is nice and the admin is interesting.
But it might be wise to not proliferate gallery tools all over the place.

We thought we would use Gallery for the Outing Club.

Mostly because of the Shutterfly print service integration. [...]

A9.com > Company > Privacy Policy

As they go, the A9 (Amazon search) privacy policy is amazingly straight forward and readable. In no uncertain terms should all web sites provide privacy polices that are clear and up-front with the information collected and how it will be used.

Keeping it simple is easier than obfuscation.

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