Notes from Prof. Dipl.-Des. Oliver Wrede
Manila moves forward
Jake Savin is moving forward with Manila. Very good. It was just few weeks ago that I noted Manila was not updated for quite some time. Lawrence Lee is very responsive to the community if there are ideas how to improve. He also offers quick help if there are problems. What is very encouraging here…
Weblogs & Knowledge sharing
»Seb of Seb’s Open Research published his Weblogs & Knowledge sharing surevy over the weekend. Too much infor for me at the mo but well worth a deeper look later.« [James Farmer’s Radio Weblog]
MacOS 10.2.5 Update out
I just checked the software update control panel and found the 10.2.5 update to MacOS X is out from Apple.
Weblogs In Education
David Carraher: »Two current shortcomings of education could could be addressed through weblogging technologies. The former is highly problematic throughout K-12; it is not a major problem in graduate school. The latter remains a problem at all levels.1. Constraints on Students As Active Producers of Knowledge2. There is a firewall around the classroom« David Carraher…
G5 coming
This article is suggesting Apple could probably introduce a G5 processor on the next Worldwide Developer Conference. The G5 chip is a 64 Bit processor and it will offer “performance that will be in the upper reaches of any CPU”. An because AMD does not control the OS their CPUs are running Apple might be…
Peter Merholz about weblogs
Peter Merholz is back after some month of abstinence. He needed a timeout from blogging: I was also growing increasingly frustrated with the echo chamber effect of weblogs. A meme drifts out there, and then 38 different people post their take on that meme, and they all link to each other, and, as a reader,…
PictureMe
PictureMe is just the missing link between iPhoto and the MacOS X addressbook. You can add addressbokk portraits from any picture file via drag&drop. I always wondered why Apple did not include that into iPhoto from the beginning. It’s so obvious.
Domains of Design
This document defines the three terms information design, interface design and interaction design.
Processing
The Design By Numbers project from John Maeda seems to have a successor: Processing. »The Processing project was created to introduce a new audience to computer programming and to encourage the audience of hybrid artist/designer/programmers. It integrates a programming language, development environment, and teaching methodology into a unified structure for learning.« Unfortunatly it seesm to…
Phoenix
I just gave Phoenix for OS X a try. It seems to be a very nice browser, stripped down to what a browser should have. Mozilla got such a bloated heavy beast. Phoenix still consumes more than twice as much RAM than Safari and still more than Mozilla. It also has some bugs and interface…
Towards Designing for Adaption
Dan Hill about adaptive design. I think he is spot on with this presentation about what design means if everything gets dynamic, multi-purpose, interoperable and connective. These are characteristics that have not been there before and it has already changed how design works.
Haystack
»Our research seeks to bring modern information management and retrieval technologies to the average computer user in order to make computers a more compelling place for users to interact with their information.« According to Katharina, Haystack is a kind of »Google for the Desktop« with an own user interface to access the database. [feedme News]
Feed me
Katharina Birkenbach started a seperate weblog documenting the process of their diploma work.
RSS Clients
Tobias was asking about an RSS feed reader like NetNewsWire for Windows. I haven’t tested one myself, but there is a good list of available software for different platforms. I have heard someone using FeedReader. I think I also saw some positive comments about Syndirella. By the way: All our seminar sites offer their news…
Sebastian explicates
Sebastian Fiedler is commenting my recent post about my problem convincing students to run personal weblogs. He comes up with a quote from the British psychologists Thomas & Harri-Augstein: In constructing and validating their views, people develop their own ‘personal myths’. We introduce this term to designate the ‘personal knowing’ that results from enduring long-term…
Dale Pike on Weblogs in education
Dale Pike: »I’m giving a presentation entitled “Using Weblogs to Facilitate Collaboration” and the UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference today. See link for presentation materials.«
Sebasitian to Augsburg
Sebastian Fiedler ist very active in the area of weblogs in education. He will be giving a course at the University of Augsburg: »The cool thing is that I can base the course on my PhD project. So, weblogs and personal Webpublishing will be an important ingredient…«
Changed approach
I changed my strategy for advocating weblogs in my local educational setting: Each member of the group is supposed to run his own weblog and the group weblogs aggregate and form intersections. The immediate response from one student: »I don’t see a need for that.«. Why is it that some people see the immediate appeal…
Woon-Chul Jung
The first weblog from a student of our product design department went online. I instantly subscribed his RSS-Feed with NetNewsWire. Looking forward to what is coming from there…
Publishing a project weblog
John Udell: »A couple of years ago I predicted that Weblogs would emerge within the enterprise as a great way to manage project communication. I’m even more bullish on the concept today. If you’re managing an IT project, you are by definition a communication hub. Running a project Weblog is a great way to collect,…
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