IE and Firefox appear to have agreed on something, but Tim Bray is (as usual) totally correct: a little orange button somewhere in the page, even if everyone agrees on what the button is, is still a suboptimal user experience. (As usual) Tim also has a good suggestion for what the experience should be- something [...]
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I have been saying that wiki and open source succeed because of statistics and probability for a long time, but I’ve never sat down to explain it really well. This blog post on the long tail blog does. Really good job; I recommend people read it and think about the implications.
gnome
Bugzilla is dead; long live [...]
Ray Strode’s post to foundation-list about logos has been sitting in my inbox for a few days now, waiting to be loved. I saw jrb briefly early this evening; he said ‘oh, I nominate you to respond to Ray. (pause) (pause) Wait, wait, no I don’t.’ jrb is wise. He of course says that because, [...]
I keep seeing all this blather about what desktop Linus uses. Now, I of course disagree with Linus; I won’t go into the details why because they have been rehashed 10,000 times already, though if you must know, the two images in Jimmac’s blog capture it better than anything I can say.
That said, it just [...]
Research-y Bits
Wikipedia is basically as accurate as Britannica on a selection of science articles, according to Nature. Wikipedia has slightly more errors, but only slightly. And of course they are more up-to-date, though Nature does not cover that.
Interesting-looking research on different types of wikipedia contributors. [Via sj.]
Work
Spent four hours in meetings today; rest of the [...]
Woot! We have gotten a verbal commitment from my favorite candidate for one of our two postings, and after some internal discussion, have re-written the second posting to be more client-centric. Sadly, that means ‘more windows centric’, but what can you do- if you’re tackling spyware, you have to go where the spyware is :) [...]
Great weekend in New York City, as usual, with the excellent Eily Hayes and Matt Beckett, watching Duke beat the tar out of Texas and generally coasting around the city. Bumped into Joe in Penn Station, so the ride home was nice too- good to catch up with him. Only negative part of the weekend [...]
OOo 2.0’s dictionary does not include ‘blog’ or ‘wiki.’ That amuses me for some reason. And yes, I’m writing a design spec, in OOo 2, that discusses blogs and wikis. That does not amuse me, unfortunately.
I thought I was healthy. I woke up this morning kicking ass; by the end of the day my brain was toast and I’ve now gone from ‘brain is toast’ to ‘big headache and am completely congested again.’ And of course, the way the day worked out, I was doing my most important work between [...]
Mostly good couple days. Very productive at work (both for myself and hopefully for helping others at JOLT and abcd) and decently productive at home, moving the law school apps forward. Everyone I talk to in person at Harvard is sure I’ll get in (sadly haven’t seen the new dean of admissions lately ;), but [...]
