Monthly Archives: December 2004

The End of Usability Culture

By Oliver Wrede | Published: December 31, 2004
Dirk Kneymeyer published an article about the “fruits” of a usability discourse ending up in uninspired designs: The yang to our present yin is a dearth of mainstream creativity, visual differentiation, and sense of active design. For example, the financial services industry spends a tremendous amount of money on Web sites, having moved a large [...]
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Extremely annoying

By Oliver Wrede | Published: December 31, 2004
My provider was unable to charge my credit card properly – but even after admitting it his own fault last week my server was locked down yesterday. So I had a downtime of one day. Sorry.
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Political capital from desasters

By Oliver Wrede | Published: December 31, 2004
The death toll desaster in asian sea begins to exceed any catastrophe the world has ever seen. It is a shame to read this headline: Secretary of State Colin Powell conferred by video hookup with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday on assistance to the victims of the Asian and African tsunamis and then added the [...]
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Discourse vs. conversations

By Oliver Wrede | Published: December 31, 2004
I had the chance to re-read Elmine Wijnias text »Understanding weblogs: a communicative perspective« where she applies Habermas’ theory of communicative action to weblogs. I agree with the conclusions of Wijnias’ text at large. But then I stumbled across a dispute of a claim of me that I totally overlooked the first time. Elmine disqualifies [...]
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Situated cognition and weblogs

By Oliver Wrede | Published: December 31, 2004
Through Feedster I learned about this interesting post about “situated cognition” and weblogs. I can’t comment to that blog post, because I’d need a Bloggger account for that, so I am commenting here: The link at the end of that post points to the slides of my presentation. I think the actual paper is much [...]
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Delicious Library

By Oliver Wrede | Published: December 24, 2004
This application simply rocks: Delicious Library You can hold a book with a barcode in front of your iSight camera and it automatically gets added to a virtual book shelf (with thumbnail, price tag and summary). You can then create and export sub-collections. I would have bought this application for $40 instantly – if only [...]
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IIID Expert Forum for Knowledge Presentation

By Oliver Wrede | Published: December 21, 2004
The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) has published a very valuable documentation about the expert meeting on knowledge presentation online.
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