Year: 2001

I’m really tempted to apply for this job as Information Architect. It looks terrifying and challenging. It is possibly just out of my league though.

Altavista.com has a substantial list of articles about weblogging, which should be read by anyone who is interested in starting one. There’s a whole range of material, from definitions (also: 1), instruction manuals and columns (also: 1, 2, 3) to manifestos, FAQs and interviews / features (also: 1). There’s something here for everyone.

I’m quite interested in finding (or creating) a directory of articles about weblogs and weblogging. If anyone knows of any other interesting links, let me know.

I’m contemplating installing Seti@home on my Mac at work and leaving it on over weekends and evenings, having read computer.org’s piece “SETI@home: Massively Distributed Computing for SETI”. I used to have it installed on my old PC, but my fascination waned a few months ago. I started wondering when we might start to see some results – even if they were all negative. Then I stumbled upon an article on Wired.com: “Seti: Is Anybody Out There?”, that reignited my hope. And now this new article… Well it’s too good to resist.

An old site constructed by me that still has the power to amuse me, particularly as it reflects my interests of the time: Noah Wyle, Sean Lennon, Lard and lots of half naked men. Flashback to: Fragmentary Life.

Consider yourselves warned – the UK weblogging contingent are taking to the streets this coming Tuesday in what is being affectionately referred to at the moment as The Return of Vodka Jelly. All are welcome to attend.

Found unopened in Inbox (sent August 2000):

So I’ve been reading this book called 72 dpi which contains some of the most startling pieces of web design work that I’ve ever seen plus a considerable amount of commentary which is slamming the conventions of user interface design (most notably the left-navigation or tab-based models that many sites operate with).

I’m not going to comment on the apparent sterility of corporate user interface design because I think there is a substantial case to be made for systems to be usability tested and to follow a few conventions of the medium as is rather than as it will be. But there is always a case for work that inspires you to challenge convention. So here are some of my picks from the book.

bionic systems, grayscale.net, kabeljau.ch, futurefarmers.com, designershock.com/de [via 72dpi: buy the book | 72-dpi.org | portable]

Everyone is going to be linking to this in a couple of hours, so I might as well get in early. Meg finally presents her mini StorTrooperDance page.

I can’t tell from the picture whether or not this is real, but it is very amusing. Now if they did a Mac version, with some of that Apple design genius – well I might just have to buy one: The self-sustaining geek machine.