Simplicity is something we desperately yearn for in areas from data visualization to technology. Yet these very areas often stray into more complex waters, becoming less usable the further they go. George Whitesides, who has a background in chemistry and various other sciences, seems uniquely qualified to help us find a definition of “simplicity” in [...]
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June 4th, 2010
An introduction to the “21st Century Web”
A while back, I asked for help identifying what web sites would be ideal for someone who had missed key advances on the Internet for the past several years. As a social software trainer, I teach a class designed to encapsulate the “latest and greatest” on the web in order to lay the groundwork for [...]
March 19th, 2010
Life before Google… [hilarious comic]
A colleague of mine posted this Chuck & Beans comic in the office this morning and I literally laughed out loud. As a constant and (insatiable) learner (just ask my wife), this nicely sums up my life prior to 1996 when I first discovered the web.
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