I’ve been cluttering my Safari bookmarks bar with the following for a while. Some of them were even worth the wait.
- Digital Media Mistakes – Notes from the newspaper world on mistakes to avoid. Not incredibly useful for me, but right in touch with online-news.
- Slashdot review of a book I’d like to read someday: How would you move Mount Fuji? about Microsoft interview questions (it’s more than that, but that’s the Cliff notes).
- Some people don’t need the internet. Freaks. 😉 There is a research study from Pew behind this post.
- Barry Parr on why the definition of content is too broad when you’re looking at content sales. Classifieds don’t count (well, they do, but not in the same category as news).
- Paul Graham’s Hackers and Painters is already, seemingly, a blog classic. I did read it, and I enjoyed a few things. First of all, his definition of “makers” as the right kind of hacker. Also, on a longer note, his reminder that time must pass for reputations to really center.
The only external test is time. Over time, beautiful things tend to thrive, and ugly things tend to get discarded. Unfortunately, the amounts of time involved can be longer than human lifetimes. Samuel Johnson said it took a hundred years for a writer’s reputation to converge. You have to wait for the writer’s influential friends to die, and then for all their followers to die.
- Another note from Barry Parr on the slow, steady progress of The Economist online.
- More about building the Memex, from Emergic. I did read Vannevar Bush’s “As we may think” several years ago. I was one of the people who helped get it online at The Atlantic in 1994 (AOL) and 1995 (web), where it was originally published in the magazine in… wait for it… July 1945. It’s been almost 60 years and we’re still striving to meet the visions here. I want to read the biography.
- Social capital of weblogs – nifty diagram, but tries to make too much of the topic.
- Newspaper as UI from Don Park. We are still re-learning some of the UI lessons of the print world here online. Yes, it’s different, but we (the audience) are still much the same. Maybe the next generation or two will change that, but not yet!
- Where is the knowledge in a CMS? It’s a damn good question.