Fred Brooks, computer industry rockstar, regaled 200 geek disciples at Etsy last night with stories about why team design doesn’t work. Brooks wrote a classic book called The Mythical Man-Month about how putting more engineers on a project slows it down paradoxically. In his new book, The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist, [...]

A new Razorfish report on how digital content thrives today concludes that content must be nimble and structure helps make it so. Check out the full report at http://nimble.razorfish.com/publication/?m=11968&l=1 – and don’t miss the “capabilities that can help” within many of the sections that lists technologies to make this happen and appendix with semantic tools. [...]

At today’s Publishing Point meetup at Random House, Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) spoke on the merging of content and technology and argued that content should be liquid and lubricated. See the video at http://publishingpoint.ning.com/video/part-19-fred-wilson-partner-at – my summary is below. Future of Content – Liquid First, he thinks big media companies will do well because [...]

Semantico does a good job of laying out pros and cons for publishers for creating apps. vs. mobile websites at http://tinyurl.com/y4g5u2t. The author, Richard Padley, Managing Director, says “Inevitably the best choice in any given situation will depend on the content, the market, the level of investment needed and the risk publishers are willing to [...]

Another great post from Info. Designer Stijn Debrouwere – this one on findability and exploration in search. He says no cares about your home page – they may have gotten to your site through search. (This happened to me – while I’ve visited and written about this blog before, I saw a tweet from @Design_Innovate, [...]

I tweeted earlier about the problems with metadata detailed at http://tinyurl.com/2ddh7c8. I’m excerpting some of my favorite quotes below because I really want you to see them – check out the original post for great infographics and more food for thought. I want to know: What do you see as the solutions? – Kathy Sandler [...]

On MediaBistro’s eBookNewser blog, they are chronicling “The Making of an eBook.” In the first installment at http://bit.ly/501b34, the author says the indie publisher doesn’t want to create an eBook because they have to pay to format the book twice. It must have been around 1996 that I heard Chris Gulker, who was then at [...]

Highlights from Creativity & Technology London from Creativity Online. I want to know what’s your biggest hurdle for creativity & tech? Excerpts below. See full write-up at http://bit.ly/2TU298. “The event brought together designers, creatives and technologists from agencies like Organic and Crispin Porter + Bogusky to discuss work ranging from Fiat Eco: Drive to Poke [...]

Thanks for GearFuse for these great tech gifts: Pirate Keyboard has only one letter (guess which one)! See http://bit.ly/1PKgQM Keyboard Purse: http://tinyurl.com/yfc6ea3 Skatekeyboard: http://bit.ly/3qaMcg Posted by Kathy Sandler on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 7:35 PM

In Fortune‘s Brainstorm Tech@Work blog, Alan Cohen (VP, Cisco): enterprise social networking is the CIO’s new super power. CIO = superhero? Excerpts below. See http://bit.ly/1ujSv1 I want to know how do you think social networking can be used productively? “The latest tech tool? People power. …In the past 20 to 30 years, our customers’ organizations [...]