http://www.positionrelative.com taglines are for the weak Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:51:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well to start with I have four tabs - tools, news, such new feeds, delicious. Plus sage (feed reader extension for firefox)... Why don't I have all my feeds in netvibes? How is my use of sage different from the way I use feeds in netvibes? The feeds that I have ... http://www.positionrelative.com/2008/02/13/how-i-use-netvibes/ TED is an almost never ending source of great thought provoking speeches. Here is Jan Chipchase talking about his research into people and their mobile phone use. While about mobile use the lessons for design in general are clear. http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/11/22/ted-design-mobile-phones-people/ So there I was up on stage delivering my little talk on advanced tagging. Well it was fun and great to get some interesting discussion on an aspect of my current favourite UE related topic, personalization and personality. I was a little disappointed with my speech as the slides were ... http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/10/04/on-ozia2007/ So despite a bit of a scary technical glitch wherein I lost my presentation slides and some of my notes and then had to rebuild my presentation, despite that... Well my presentation at OZIA2007 went alright. It wasn't the best presentation I have ever given, and it wasn't as good ... http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/09/28/multidimensional-tagging-explored/ Today I am at the first day of the OZia conference here in Sydney. I'm sitting here listening to some interesting presentations and below are my impressions from the first ones of the day. Later I will link to slideshows and recordings as they bocome available. Anatomy of a redesign at ... http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/09/22/a-morning-at-ozia/ There is a new movie coming out in about a month (depending upon where you live) which I am dieing to see. The movie is called control and is a sort of a biopic about Ian Curtis who was the singer and lyricist for the band Joy Division. Joy Division ... http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/09/11/this-is-the-sound-of-passion/ When I think of personalization I mainly think of systems like the old style portals, or maybe the new generation of start pages like netvibes or igoogle. Sites where to personalize the user has to build their page using whatever tools are provided. Often these pages, despite efforts at easy ... http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/08/02/ambient-personalisation/ WCAG Samurai errata is an attempt to "fix" the problems with WCAG 1.0 Simon Willison's talk on "Doing local right" from the @media europe 2007 conference. A video showing how screenreader's are used in practice from the YUI team Tasks on a plane. The remember the milk web app goes offline How ads really ... http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/06/13/links-for-130607/ There was a cute comic posted on neatorama which started a little discussion in the comments on the difference between Anarchism and Libertarianism. I posted the comment below, but thought I would repost it here since I don't post here enough. Anarchism is very misunderstood, and indeed quite a complicated concept ... http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/06/08/30/ I have never been a fan of the CAPTCHA as the concept pushes the burden of proof onto the user when I think we should be doing more to technically assess whether a user is a human or not. There is also the not inconsequential accessibility issue involved with CAPTCHA, ... http://www.positionrelative.com/2007/06/06/alternatives-to-captcha/