Author: fioritto

Spreading MP3 Goodness Throughout the…

Spreading MP3 Goodness Throughout the House. Trial – MP3Mystic 1.07b19 “MP3Mystic is an easy to use web server for MP3 file sharing (or other file types) and streaming. It takes a given directory path on your PC and creates/serves a web page that lists all the files as well as a “download” and “listen” link. It offers additional features like…

Dave Winer goes to Harvard…

Dave Winer goes to Harvard. Dave Winer goes to Harvard. Dave Winer’s job hunt was pretty short. This is great news for academia.[Sebastien Paquet] [Seblogging News] Let me add my congratulations to Dave Winer on his upcoming stint as a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Plugging Dave into another network ought to lead to some…

Recommended reading [1].

Recommended reading. A few links of interest to designers and developers of online news/information sites: Matt Jones: The Glass Wall. “A document detailing the design process behind the BBC homepage.” Fascinating, and beautifully explained. Anne Conneen: The Best Designed News Sites Steve Yelvington: What are the best-designed news sites? “Good Web design is interaction design, not ‘how it looks’ design.”…

Dan Gillmor defines “We Media”…

Dan Gillmor defines “We Media”. Dan Gillmor’s latest piece in the Columbia Journalism Review extends his Journalism 3.0 thesis (“my readers know more than I do”) and talks about “We Media:” Interactive technology — and the mostly young readers and viewers who use and understand it — are the catalysts. We Media augments traditional methods with new and yet-to-be invented…

Why WiFi will kick the…

Why WiFi will kick the telcos’ asses. Clay “former guestblogger” Shirky’s posted a great editorial about what happens to businesses that fail to distinguish a product from a service: Putting a fax machine in every FedEx office would radically reconfigure the center of their network, thus slashing costs: toner would replace jet fuel, bike messenger’s hourly rates would replace pilot’s…