12th
January
2000
Net bringing more power to the people
An interview with Christopher Alexander, author of A Pattern Language.
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An interview with Christopher Alexander, author of A Pattern Language.
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“In the future, predictions of the future will be as off-base as they’ve been in the past… Back in the early 1980s, David Byrne wrote a piece of music called ‘In The Future,’ in which he rattled off a deadpan litany of contradictory predictions. (’In the future no one will fight with anyone else. In the future there will be an atomic war.’) For Byrne, the list was a source of droll humor. But in today’s technology marketplace, such prognostication is a serious business.”
“Media companies continue to grow, and a shrinking number of them shape what we view and read. What does that mean for journalists — and for the nation? Here are some tools for thinking about that. First, an essay on media concentration by Tom Goldstein, dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Next, an essay on the Viacom/CBS merger by New York University’s Mark Crispin Miller. And finally, Who Owns What, CJR’s Web guide to what the major media companies own.”
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“We’ve taken the search out of searching with a unique new capability. k-check means you no longer need to type your search. It’s replaced typing with a simple drag and drop action. And in so doing has brought more context to what you’re looking for. Now instead of single word searches, you simply take the text of an article from your desktop and drag it into k-check. It doesn’t matter where the information comes from — it could be an email, an article, another web-page. k-check just pulls out the key concepts and then uses the WebTop.com engine to bring you the most important related web articles.”
An interview with Christopher Alexander, author of A Pattern Language.
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“As usability consultants, we’re often asked by potential clients to bring in a portfolio of ’screens’ that we’ve designed. But we don’t have any, because we don’t design ’screens;’ we design interaction, the intended behavior by which people will use a product or a web site. These requests from clients illustrate a problem with much of the web site development that’s being done today: too often, usability is equated with graphic design. If viewers aren’t staying with your web site, then the graphics need to be improved. The site has to be more eye-catching — to ‘wow’ the viewer.”
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