Broken? By Nic Price on 11 November 2005 — 1 min read Hi, if you’ve arrived from thisisbroken, the original post is here. More
Tips for managing email By Nic Price on 10 November 2005 — 1 min read Here’s something that I wrote back in February and have been meaning to put in a post on here for ages… There are quite a few good guides to managing email. The latest one I’ve read is this one by Mark Hurst who runs a consultancy in New York. You don’t have to read all... More
Sound familiar? By Nic Price on 8 November 2005 — 1 min read As I reviewed the company’s dossier, product line, and customer experience reviews, I realized this CEO had a much bigger problem than his ads. The chain had lost its way. It had alienated its core customer base by abandoning the electronics business and becoming more of an appliance store. It had pushed design and manufacturing... More
A few quick notes from IBF Live 2005 By Nic Price on 7 October 2005 — 1 min read I met and listened to lots of new and and interesting people at the annual IBF conference this week. “The user arrives running”, and so did Ted Nelson, as Martin Leith put it, the “ht” in html. Ted shared with us his sideways view on the world. When asked to describe a computer we describe... More
How to fold a t-shirt By Nic Price on 23 September 2005 — 1 min read Thanks to Menace for passing on this amazing video showing how to fold a t-shirt. Now that’s online learning! More
That’s public service for you By Nic Price on 17 September 2005 — 1 min read It’s yellow, and the size of a pin-head. More
Useful definition of multitasking By Nic Price on 9 September 2005 — 1 min read True multitasking is when you do one foreground activity and lots of background activities. But a lot of people confuse it with trying to do more than one foreground activity at the same time. Summarising this comment. I guess that’s why doing your make-up and driving don’t work too well together 😉 More
The intranet is dead, long live the intranet By Nic Price on 9 September 2005 — 2 mins read It never really existed anyway. It’s no longer useful to call it the intranet. It’s just a concept. Everyone has a different idea of what the word means. That adds complexity. That means risk. As an idea, a construct, it’s been useful, but moving forward it’s more of a hindrance. Who does it serve to... More
Who decides what makes a photo interesting? By Nic Price on 5 August 2005 — 1 min read A couple of days ago Flickr introduced an interestingness algorithm (much of which they’re keeping a secret). So now you can see your photos according to views, favourites, comments and interestingness. More