hacking the fate: "the imu (integrated publishing in multimedia network) system, developed in this work, is a unique attempt to integrate tv news and newspaper sources".
last year i was involved in a project which was an interesting experiment in connecting broadcast and internetactivity and never was finished due to a lack of professionalism and passion. it was called imo.
"cultivate interactive is a web magazine which is funded under the european commission's digicult programme". from somewhere i remember the term "digital heritage and cultural content"...
so what is cultivate? inside is a circuitous report of a consultation meeting on "personalising content", a diffuse article about "cultural and historical metadata" and some interesting information about "supporting europe’s entrepreneurs and innovators with intellectual property issues" (to name just a few).
does this acronymic prolix have any effect on europa's "media landscape"?
what exactly are telematics for libraries? documentation and information sciences?
stake, stufflebeam and scriven (just kiddin'): the usability methods toolbox.
coaching poor writers to excellence in writing: the modern word.
nevertheless, i disagree with the vision that "more and more bloggers will start to write longer texts" (= more words) sooner or later. it's a natural misinterpretation that length is a measure of quality (honi soit qui mal y pense!) or level of difficulty. instead, writing short articles or even just adding a comment or description to a link as well can be quite an artistic act and hard work as weaving the holistic epos – especially when trying to provide sufficient and transparent information at the same time.
mcweblogs are the pirate fast food stations of the web.
i certainly would not consider a lot of weblogs (including this one) following this theory. but the point is that i cannot see weblogs to be made for linguistic deep sea diving, merely for short-winded cruise passengers in a hurry snatching some text oysters when snorkling by. sure, "linear non-hypertext is here to stay" (and the term of "weblogs as initial drug for public writing" is a very good point, too), but in the end again, i would not call it weblog. well, probably just a wittgensteiny matter of language...
moreover, my mind likes the small chunks of my weblog and i believe that summaries are undermining epic stardom. you only live once. or: you don't even live once! or: about this brittle weblog: lord, forgive them, for they know what they do.
what a lengthy article this became...
hardly to believe but after a second look it's obvious that this is a manila site, too... found via marg (relishful things for women!) where they are testing dildos. further relations: fox filmfakes (they must be having a lot of fun!), blumberg gallery.
neat feature found at tremendo: opening an html document in internet explorer 5's search panel (windows only).
the results of the flash usability challenge provide an excellent analysis of dos and don'ts of creating websites with flash: comments about the winner (ted baker online) and other proposals and final comments (smart questions).
"choice is important. it puts the users in control, rather than designers." – john s. rhodes, webword
btw: i consider jason kottke's response to the f.u.c. (heheh!) a little bit weak since an invincible distinction between flash and html is the ability to provide open source code – the essence and motor of the web (as linked today on kottke.org).
it's a comfortable feeling to work together with excellent people as colleagues who create more interesting stuff than the company we're employed by (which has several reasons, to remain diplomatic and cryptic enough): massivebeat.com by gernot hofer.
the opus dei of flash maniacs: vir2l (it's a pun! it's a pun!)