Die Meinungsfreiheit als Sondermüll
This insightful comment about the infrastructure for online censorship in Germany is a must read (in German).
Time to leave…
The BBC has a whole set of beautiful visualisations like this on Britain from Above.
My flickr buddies created via http://www.flickr.com/fun/buddies.gne
What is Agile?
via Agile Lab:
1 Agile refers to a bunch of project management methods that are well suited to managing projects in an environment where everything is changing. Agile methods came from software development but can be used for managing all sorts of projects.
2 Using an Agile method, a project team organizes all its work into “stories”. A “story” is a short description of one thing that needs to be done on the project.
3 The list of stories are prioritized in discussion between the project team and the client.
4 The team, in discussion with the client select a number of the stories to work on over a short period of time (from about a week, to about a month). This is called an iteration. Each story in an iteration is assigned to a team member. This team member estimates how long the story will take.
5 The aim at the end of each iteration is to have something working to show the client. The client then has a chance to give feedback, to add new stories to the list of stories still to do, or re-prioritize the stories that are already there.
6 The team go through the stories that they’ve finished and compare how long they estimated they would take with how long they actually took. They use this as guide to future estimation.
7 The client and the project team go through the newly-prioritize list of stories and decide on the next iteration.
Bookmarking is dead
Finding a site from my bookmarks takes me longer than simply searching for it via Google. Web applications I use frequently are automatically tracked by Safari 4’s top site feature and any content driven sites of interest live in my RSS reader anyway. Combine that with the visual history search in Safari and it just works better for me than social or local bookmarking ever did.
If I use delicious these days it is for publishing purposes only (via aggregation to Friendfeed). Looks like bookmarking has quietly died.
Case Study House #22, Julius Shulman (via erhebung)
We did some fun stone stacking in Jasper National Park. No glue or hidden tricks.
New dopplr travel report
Me bouncing in the rain (via angincanada)
meeting up with verena & alex at vancouver airport
