Archives for technology
How Can a Computer Screen Replace Human Interaction?
Coming from the world of live events and into the Interactive space, I have been contemplating this since joining Pop Art. Interactive has been progressively threatening the events business since the 1990’s, because it offers convenience, broad scalability, and lower cost for traditional event clients. As an event Producer, this was exasperating. While the events industry [...]
The Door-Close Buttons in Most Elevators Don’t Do Anything
When we first moved into our new building, Dave wrote “Door-Close button in elevator does nothing” on the maintenance list, and the handyman replied “Button functions as intended” or something along those lines. Well, turns out they’re BOTH right. I was reading an article that Kottke linked to about elevators, and there was a little bit in [...]
SPIN Seminar – Improving Accessibility and Quality in Web-Based Applications
The good people at Rose City SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) and OGI had me back to talk about Accessibility. I thought the whole thing was going to be cancelled – we had a tornado in the area that night. Unlike the midwest, I learned that tornado in Portland are very rare. Almost as rare [...]
Efficiency Magnifier
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates
