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Monday, July 25, 2005 —
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From Emergic, Slashdot does the Memex.
Highlights of the slashdot fray:

a dive into the world of web and desktop search
pay me for my browser history
pr0n across history

Reflecting upon my own consumption of public media, I’ve got no less than 10 blog aggregator systems. None of them are quite fluent enough for me. Start.com comes [...]

So I promised some commentary on the Tablet PC that is now a frequent companion. Tablet’s have started to get a bum rap in the blogosphere, or at least a healthy dose of skepticism.
I’m super attuned to the flow experience and don’t hesitate to regard a “feature” as a impediment to my [...]

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White.Steve.Blog : Avalon 3D File System Visualizer (FolderTreemap3D) —
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TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook —
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UHS: Half-Life 2 Hints —
DHTML spotting, [...]

Just a test. I’m getting some exceptions invoking menu items by mouse (keybd works). Guess I should try an older version.
This think needs a MSN Search based hyperlink lookup. I implemented this in Blozom — one of the tabs in insert hyperlink is “Search” which auto runs the anchor text phrase and offers [...]

It’s been a while eh? Nifty new wordpress install here. We’ll see how it goes. Old news here, but these are some of the things that have tipped the scales between dedicating energy elsewhere and participating in the generative & evolving technical commons.

StartPlane: An exploratory del.icio.us zeitgeist
Twingine is a frame based [...]

The CHI conference was good — gotta love any venue that publishes multiple papers on increasing the effectiveness of core interation techniques like scrolling. Kieran has a great summary even if he refers to me as an “evil empire employee”.
I’m finally getting around to writing some code in what’s been dubbed “Ajax” by the [...]

I’ve said it before but the recent googlex buzz and subsquent dock fandom brings another round of a situation akin to tree-trimbing back button (an inferior solution cemented by user learning and pervasiveness).
While the dock does offer a fun factor, it’s tantalizing close to a true performance optimization but fails to meet the bar. [...]

I’ll be attending CHI this year and participating in a workshop on integrating approaches to logging and qualitative data collection. The program has been published, lot of good stuff in the papers.

news@nature.com - Concentration hampers simple tasks

doron’s blaahg: Improved Navigation is a Benefit, Tabbed Browsing is A Feature

winsupersite offers up an intriguing set of major paradigm shifts for tablet pc computing: WinHEC 2004 Longhorn Prototypes Gallery features a slate form-factor PIM mode and a large-font pen-oriented skin.
Hmm, I hadn’t thought of hacking my tablet pc with a windows shell add-on thing… Targetting the ’s in tree user interfaces with the [...]

blogathyant: Feed reading belongs in the browser argues that consuming blogs is best done in a browser — particularly one with better support for multi-threaded reading (e.g. tabbed browsing).
I’m still looking for an acceptable aggregator. I tried IntraViews recently, an Outlook addon, and it has a very nice notification popup that shows [...]

A must read from Ben Bederson: ACM Ubiquity - Interfaces for Staying in the Flow.
The title refers to a sweet-spot in user experience in between challenge and previous experience, akin to Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development. [via infodesign]
BTW, the presence of flow states is measurable.

LL points to this discussion of the thorny problem of working with hierarchies and graphs in SQL on usenet. The guy who wrote the book on the topic responds. Nifty.

The Mozilla project has always struggled with product design. For years, “4xp”, or Netscape Communicator equivalence reigned large in Bugzilla.mozilla.org. I won’t even get started on the view of Netscape internal activities provided by bugzilla to an embeddor looking in during the 0.9 timeframe.
For those of you not following along, ongoing preparation for [...]