New webring code… Check!
The city I grew up in
is profiled in Upside today. People are starting to take notice of Ottawa as a tech center. Everyone misses the story though. Ottawa isn’t just a johnny come lately – it has been a small but very significant player in the tech world for 30 years. It wasn’t by accident that pre-sale DEC manufactured their high-end processors there until the mid 90s. I know that voice mail as we know it today was at least partially invented in Ottawa. IBM has been doing (did?) research there (in association with the National Research Center) since the 60s. Whatever – it doesn’t really affect me cause there’s no web industry that I know of there.
Behind the curtain
Behind the curtain: a day in the life of webloggers looks like a lot of fun. My name isn’t on the page of participants yet, but I’ve submitted the form and think this will be really cool to do, and to see once it’s ready to be viewed by the public. It’s been a while since I participated in a group activity of this sort. Actually, since the 24 Hours of Democracy thing years ago (I compiled 12 or 15 pages of essays for members of Cafe Utne), I don’t think I’ve done anything like it.
It hasn’t been
a regular part of my updates recently to comment on other weblogs’ commentary, but Brig Eaton’s comment on eatonweb, that it might all be about brand, is worth noting. Brand is an ever increasing part of the mix of things that make up the value of products, at least in North America and Europe. So, contrary to what I understand Jakob Nielsen writes, there may be value in extending a brand through “wild” design. I do realize that this might be the most obvious and even trite post in the world, by the way, to most people who read here. Not quite sure why I’m writing it.
Lots of hand
-wringing over content and it’s viability in the grand scheme of the web in Salon.com’s article, Remember when content was king? It is totally feasible to make money, and lots of it, doing content on the web. Lots of companies are doing it. It’s just that the answer isn’t obvious, and doesn’t involve trying to mimic Vanity Fair, the New York Times, or the National Enquirer.
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