public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag business

October 2006

Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin

"Our increasing emphasis on quantitative reductions, like ranking lists, at the expense of critically engaged qualitative thought, can be seen as bottom-line strategies for efficiently navigating our increasingly .. networked cybernetic order."

Pew Internet: Future of the Internet

well worth downloading and printing the 104 pp PDF document; the list of contributors alone is worth following up on; especially interesting on the inequalities and possibilities for repression

September 2006

World Wikia - World Wikia

by 1 other
new developments in wikis, an open source travel guide that users can edit. Will it rival the megasite, Lonely Planet?

August 2006

Hitwise Intelligence

company measuring Internet behavior internationally

July 2006

June 2006

user experience design

by 2 others
Peter Morville, whose book Ambient Findability, is a classic about user experience of the Internet here says users want a site that is useful, usable, desirable, findable, accessible, credible. Common sense, but rarely said so clearly!

May 2006

Everything Web 2.0 list, March 06

by 54 others
a list of the applications available, categorized but not evaluated; lots of things to try