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19th May 2003

1957 atomic revolution comic book

“I found this wonderful thing at an estate sale of someone who I’m pretty sure once worked for a nuclear power company. This comic was included in a simple manilla envelope package given to executives of an atomic weapons company in 1957, presumably as a self-congratulating gift or maybe for a holiday event.”

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19th May 2003

Content Management Design

“This book is about designing and coding Content Management Systems from scratch. It covers revisioning, permissions, workflow, and templates, and by the time you’ve reached the end, you should be able to write your own enterprise-strength CMS from the ground up, or at least have a better appreciation of the issues involved.”

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19th May 2003

Information Architecture Meets Usability

“Lou Rosenfeld is an information architecture consultant and coauthor of O’Reilly’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition. Steve Krug is a web usability expert and the author of Don’t Make Me Think. They both lead seminars in their respective fields, and recently decided to pair-up to offer back-to-back sessions of their symposiums. We spoke with both Lou and Steve about the advantages of their joint seminars, the common pitfalls of web usability and information architecture, and the state of the web industry today.”

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19th May 2003

A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

“Americans probably use a greater variety of units of measurement than anyone else in the world. Caught in a slow-moving transition from customary to metric units, we employ a fascinating and sometimes frustrating mixture of units in talking about the same things. We measure the length of a race in meters, but the length of the long jump event in feet and inches. We speak of an engine’s power in horsepower and its displacement in liters. In the same dispatch, we describe a hurricane’s wind speed in knots and its central pressure in millibars.”

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19th May 2003

Information Architecture Meets Usability

“Lou Rosenfeld is an information architecture consultant and coauthor of O’Reilly’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition. Steve Krug is a web usability expert and the author of Don’t Make Me Think. They both lead seminars in their respective fields, and recently decided to pair-up to offer back-to-back sessions of their symposiums. We spoke with both Lou and Steve about the advantages of their joint seminars, the common pitfalls of web usability and information architecture, and the state of the web industry today.”

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