Monthly Archives: January 2005

After the game is before the game

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 25, 2005
So the semester is almost over. I end with a much bigger base of new slides from recent lectures that will probably make the future lecturing task much easier. I had never the chance to use a former presentation 1:1 for a new one: there is always a need for update and improvement – but [...]
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Navigation blindness

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 21, 2005
This article by Henrik Olsen suggests to design navigation systems in webistes to be much more prominent: Most web development projects put a lot of effort into the design of navigation tools. But fact is that people tend to ignore these tools. They are fixated on getting what they came for and simply click on [...]
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indypeer.org

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 20, 2005
Few days after my returning home from New York after 9/11 (the day I originally planned to fly home) I felt strongly that the WTC attacks were just a episode and that there is a great deal of background and responsibility on the side of the current (and probably former) US governments and the fact [...]
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Destructive Wiki spam

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 16, 2005
I had my wiki locked for anonymous editing to get rid of spammers. Only one or two pages were editable because I wanted people to be able to work on them. I was hoping that spammers would turn down if they can’t find an editable page ad hoc. Not so. In “return” they did not [...]
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I work, you work, we all work, with iWork

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 16, 2005
I am doing almost all of my presentations with Keynote – and was waiting for Keynote 2 to show up. Actually I am not missing any feature in this application, but I am looking forward to the Flash export and I wonder if it will be easy to do voice-overs for self-running presentations. What I [...]
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Technorati now allows free tagging

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 16, 2005
Technorati now supports free tagging of weblog posts. This is similar to the tagging used at Del.icio.us and Flickr. Of course I like it. But right now I am not quite sure how to add these tags into my weblog layout. Should I replace my very own categories wit them? Hmmmm… I should not forget [...]
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Tsunamis at Wikipedia

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 4, 2005
This Wikipedia page is very interesting: While the tsunami wave of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was by far the deadliest ever recorded it was by far not the highest: that was recorded 1958 in Alaska and was created by a land slide inside a small fjord (LItuya Bay) causing a wave to reach high [...]
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Fighting DRM

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 1, 2005
Cory Doctorow responds to digital rights management advocate Chris Anderson from Wired Magazine: DRM isn’t protection from piracy. DRM is protection from competition.
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