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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags usability & blogs

December 2006

EVERYTHING 2.0: KNOWLEDGE 2.0

by 1 other
links to knowledge sharing or knowledge management site; larger site is most comprehensive listing of web2.0 sites I have seen, organized into many categories; blogger is from Netherlands

Digital Web Magazine

by 33 others
see Nov. 27 06 and earlier, "The Rise of Flash Video" by Tom Green; many articles of interest to both designers and theorists in this ejournal

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

by 2 others
"Our interests extend to the wondrous, the curious, the singular, the esoteric, the arcane, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the plausible and the implausible." a whacky collection

November 2006

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

by 7 others
rather technical; useful list of many web2.0 bloggers; frequent comparison of sites serving a similar function

Blogging

short links page to information on blogging and representative blogs by types; a good place to start

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

by 1 other
very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

creativebits | mac design community

by 4 others
a professional blog and community site for graphic designers working on Mac OS X

43 Folders

by 50 others
personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better; check out "classics"; good for grad students who need to organize gettting through and out earning a real living

Solution Watch - Your descriptive source of solutions

by 14 others, 1 comment
"reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today’s best products and services"; valuable because of plethora of new Web 2.0 software; explanation of how to use it gives clues as to if you would want to try new software.

July 2006

essay on limitation of blogs

"Goodbye, Blog: The friend of information but the enemy of thought." by Alan Jacobs

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