The granddaddy of the Internet clarifies a popular misconception.
Print What I’ve Learned: Vint Cerf
Al Gore had seen what happened with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, which his father introduced as a military bill. It was very powerful. Housing went up, suburban boom happened, everybody became mobile. Al was attuned to […]

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In the “Linkosophy” talk I gave on Monday, I suggested that a helpful distinction between the practices of IxD & IA might be that IxD’s central concern is within a given context (a screen, device, room, etc) while IA’s central concern is how to connect contexts, and even which contexts are necessary to begin with […]

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I finally uploaded Linkosophy on SlideShare.
Or you can download the 6 MB PDF version.
(Thanks to David Fiorito for compressing it down from its formerly gigantic size!)
Giving this talk at the IA Summit was a blast; I’m so grateful for the positive response, and the patience with these still-forming ideas.
If you’re after […]

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So, only a few days after I posted the original version of this, I’m doing an about-face.
I was keeping my feed locked, because Twitter is such an informal, impulsive broadcasting platform, that I like knowing only a small circle will see my brainfarts.
Keeping it locked, however, means that anyone I “allow” to see […]

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The IA Summit is going fine so far. Miami is delightful.
I set up a channel on Freenode so that if anybody wants to get their chat on during sessions, we can do it there.
For those of you who just want to chat without much muss or fuss, go here: http://java.freenode.net//index.php?channel=iasummit2008 … and BE […]

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Since so much of our culture is digitized now, we can grab clippings of it and spread it all over our identities the way we used to decorate our notebooks with stickers in grade school. Movies, music, books, periodicals, friends, and everything else. Everything that has a digital referent or avatar in the pervasive digital […]

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Some very nice and well-meaning people have asked me to speak as the closing plenary at the IASummit conference this year, in Miami.
This is, as anyone who has been asked to do such a thing will tell you, a mixed blessing.
But I’m slogging through my insanely huge bucket of random thoughts from the […]

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There are some insightful comments on how moderation architectures affect the emergent character of social platforms in Chris Wilson’s article on Slate:
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy.
He explains how the rules structures of Wikipedia and Digg have resulted (ironically) in highly centralized power structures and territorialism. A quote:
While both sites effectively […]

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So, my article is up… thanks to all the excellent editors who pushed me to finish the dang thing over the last seven months. Procrastination is a fine art, my friends.
Personas and the Role of Design Documentation - Boxes and Arrows
Here’s a nugget:
A persona document can be very useful for design—and for some […]

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I have no idea why, over the last few versions, WordPress hasn’t been able to notify me of comments, etc, but I’m very glad I found this post:
How to fix WordPress when it doesn’t notify you of comments | MeAndMyDrum
Evidently just commenting out a line in a root file of WordPress will do the trick. […]

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Lawrence Lessig recently posted this calm, engaging presentation on his site: 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog).

I’d like to add a note or two…

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