… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago:
The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt
A few key quotes:
The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than it [...]
A quick bookmark post on Clay Shirky’s Web 2.0 speech from last week. It’s a great read in its entirety. Here are my favorite sections:
So I tell [a television producer] all this stuff, and I think, “Okay, we’re going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever.” That wasn’t her question. [...]
Very good persona analysis [pdf] coming out of Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. The thing I like best, aside from the nice personas they’ve developed, is the way they’ve mapped them against experience/seriousness vs. frequency of use/need for the library:
This fits in nicely with several assumptions I’ve had regarding the audience we serve at our [...]
Over the weekend, On The Media had an interesting interview with Clay Shirky where he talked about the potential dark side of unmediated communication for his new book: Here Comes Everybody
He’s saying that our conception of the “audience” is moving away from a simple media consumer towards that of an actor with real power. He [...]
Lisa Halabi has a very good article at usabilitynews.com on the common question of whether or not to implement usability guidelines (aka an expert usability review) in place of conducting usability testing. An expert review is tempting because a reasonable person would expect to be able to codify what is and what is not good [...]