Technology

03 Feb 2008 0924H

Motorola may get out of cellphone biz

Read this in the Trib the other day. Given how hard this stuff is to do, it isn’t surprising that they lost their way. I was cautiously optimistic when their ex-CEO Ed Zander said the way forward was more RAZRs, but, because their culture is both behind and unlike Apple’s, Motorola failed to fix existing [...]

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01 Feb 2008 0636H

Observations on working with stakeholders

Sorry, been busy ramping up at my new gig, but, I was recently reminded of something a pretty smart guy, Ahmed Sako, once told me when I was working in New York: we are all eventually going to be technologists, someday. And he was right: in our line of work, any business is inevitably going [...]

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24 Jan 2008 1232H

Apple Airport Extreme Base Station

I picked up this wifi base station at the Fry’s the other day while shopping for some networking parts for my dad, and the big difference switching to 802.11n, I think, is the amount of capacity that I can now put through the network. I have connected my media drive to the USB port, which [...]

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15 Jan 2008 1322H

Macworld Keynote ‘08 metatalk

11:49:16 AM Me: nothing much compelling here on macworld keynote so far
11:49:24 AM E.: just connecting to it now.
11:49:46 AM E.: appreciate the airport hard drive upgrade
11:50:10 AM Me: that makes sense but there still isn’t a culture of backups around yet
11:50:24 AM E.: it just takes one bad day to fix that
11:51:31 AM Me: [...]

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15 Jan 2008 1319H

Macworld ‘08; Starbucks; Good to Great

No telling what’ll happen this week. Movie rentals on the iTunes Store? Eh. Would put a cork in the non-debate that is HD-DVD vs. Blu Ray, since frankly people are bypassing it all via direct downloads off P2P networks. So, if it ain’t broke, why fix it? I’d like to see iPhone rolled out to [...]

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10 Jan 2008 0854H

The persistence of memory

Welcome to 2008. Information architects, like the library and archive sciences that spawn them, are particularly anal-retentive, or so it is commonly believed. And so, organization, retention, making order out of everyday chaos is one of our main tasks. But what does it mean for our work when we begin to externalize our memory using [...]

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21 Nov 2007 0500H

Some thoughts on reqs analysis

First off, I’ve worked with lots of clients, thousands of users, and not a few analysts along the last 12 years — some good, some awful, like anything else in life — and I tend to think that the fact I’m still here in this industry working with some pretty happy clients indicates that I [...]

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26 Oct 2007 0838H

Perceptive Pixel

Got a link to the Perceptive Pixel site from the old Viant alumni list. Gestures, stacks, the whole gamut.

Kinda makes you want to shift gears and become a technologist-designer, a very rare combination of talent, skill, and wisdom. In saying that, I suppose all technologists are designers to a degree, but to be able [...]

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28 Jun 2007 2248H

The Armano Effect

As we close out June, check out this graph of subscribers over time. The red line indicates the day David Armano blogged me on Logic + Emotion. The decline? Well, likely due to me blogging about every other thing but work, really.

Thanks for the traffic, David. It’s nice to be validated.

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27 Jun 2007 1856H

Wasting away again in . . . oh never mind

Trapped at MCI on account of inclement weather. For those keeping track at home, this makes 12 hours this week spent waiting in an airport. Even after having gotten in at 3AM this morning into Kansas City, it turned out to be a pretty productive morning. It’s a little curious, but when I get [...]

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