Monthly Archives: October 2003

Quote of the Day

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 9, 2003
“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.”George Walker Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003 [via Schockwellenreiter]
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Two new handy scripts for Frontier

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 6, 2003
I added two handy scripts for Frontier in the “Other Scripts” section on my development page: the first script globally changes an e-mail address in all Manila sites of a GDB. The second script exports Manila news items as MySQL dump.
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MFA in Software?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 5, 2003
The University of Illinois is thinking about starting a Master of Fine Arts in Software. Elegant solutions, engaging ideas, inspiring work; these are some of the defining characteristics of art. Do they apply to software and is software design therefore an artform? [Solitude] Well, what I can tell for sure is that you need ideas [...]
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Thoughts on Perseus blog survey

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 5, 2003
Right in time for BloggerCon: The Blog Survey from Perseus.com. 66% of blogs are abandoned. Only 10% of webloggers appear to be older tha 30. Interestingly the study did not include some “advanced” power-user weblog tools like MovableType, Manila or Radio Userland and not even Blogger. Besides of TypePad they only inlcuded blogging software that [...]
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BloggerCon Webcasts

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 5, 2003
The BloggerCon webcasts work much better today. Yesterday it was just impossible to watch them. Today I don’t have the time to follow the sessions (there are two parallel streams anyway). I hope there will be some sessions viewable as archive later on.
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Visual Language Collection

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 2, 2003
Kris Krois: “Search this database of images that show examples of visual language. Define your search criteria using the select menues. The results will meet ALL the criteria. The more keywords you select the less hits you will get. (DUMMY ONLY ! THE REAL THING WILL COME…)” [owrede_log FB4]
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Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 2, 2003
Henrik Olsen: “For people with little experience in interaction design it’s tempting to equate visual simplicity with usability. But there is more between heaven and earth than meets the eye. The Q4 issue of GUUUI takes a look at some common pitfalls, where studies have proven that what appears to be simple isn’t always what [...]
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International Conference?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 2, 2003
Looking at the list of attendees of BloggerCon that supposedly international conference appears to be a pretty national.
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