The birth of the Microsoft Office “Ribbon”
New ideas for user interface components don’t come by very often. For example, the pointer, icons, and toolbars have been around since the late 1970’s courtesy of the work done at Xerox PARC. It’s safe to say that the computing environment in the late 70’s was quite a bit different than it is today, so [...]
Internet Literacy in Education
Wanted to share a pretty great video about internet media literacy, and higher education. For someone finishing up a Masters, some of the points he makes ring very loudly. From the YouTube video:
Recently Dr. Wesch spoke at the University of Manitoba where he explained the the basis of this video in a talk entitled, [...]
Toronto hip-hop: whazz happenin’ baybee?
For as long as I’ve been listening to hip hop (arguably, not that long .. Wu-Tang Forever was the first album I cared about, which was in 1997), I’ve been trying to figure out why Toronto specifically, and Canada to a lesser extent, doesn’t put out mind-blowingly good hip-hop non-stop. Why is there no buzz [...]
On why it is dumb to categorise ideas.
The gentleman in this video, Dr. David Weinberger, thinks it’s a pretty terrible idea to try to categorise ideas in the same way we categorise physical things in the physical world.
Many people who deal with information on a regular basis tend to think that since you can only stack a chair in a single location, [...]