Archive for August, 2008

The essence of information based human creativity (and how Robert Scoble´s Techmeme game is related to John Boyd´s military strategy)

Sonntag, August 31st, 2008

Our understanding of the core aspect of information based human creativity that can be for example sometimes (and not often enough) found in

blogging,
mails,
reports/presentations and
innovative software products and services

is expressed in this slightly modified quote of Colonel John Boyd:
Live the instinctive see-saw of analysis and synthesis across a variety of domains, or across competing/independent channels of [...]

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Usability of free software tends to suck and how Mozilla Labs wants to address it

Mittwoch, August 6th, 2008

Matthew Paul Thomas is listing In this follow up post to the 2002 article “Why Free Software usability tends to suck” lots of reasons “Why Free Software has poor usability”.
Item number three on his list is :
“Design suggestions often aren’t invited or welcomed.”
Exactly this point seems to be addressed in Mozilla Labs recent call [...]