Category Archives: misc

Crisis in Ragan

Circa 1998, and tired of giving the demo live (usually with little notice), we filmed Crisis in Ragan (sic). This is the short version for CSCW ‘98.

Patent

In an interesting bit of serendipity the other day, I was playing around with CiteULike as a means of managing a whole pile of new research papers I’m ploughing through for my new research, and adding in my own set of personal publications when I stumbled across this patent that cites my 1993 paper Using [...]

Mucking around with MT

Played with the templates a little. Used Girlie’s site as a guide:
http://www.thegirliematters.com/tips/

Upgraded to MT-2.64

Well, in an effort to solve the recent entries linking problem and get better default templates, I’ve upgraded MT on this machine. Looks like a good move so far.

Project Concept

Thinking about “killer apps” I figured that what people would like is something a simple to use as PowerPoint but for creating whole web sites.
The basic idea is to find a happy medium between structured content and a DWIM/direct manipulation interface.
PowerPoint seems to manage this by encoding the structure in a set of pre-defined [...]