“Affective computing is computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotions. Our research focuses on creating personal computational systems endowed with the ability to sense, recognize and understand human emotions, together with the skills to respond in an intelligent, sensitive, and respectful manner toward the user and his/her emotions.” – (MIT Media Laboratory)

“Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first.” – (Google News)

“(…) the best sites have replaced this process of revolution with a new process of subtle evolution. Entire redesigns have quietly faded away with continuous improvements taking their place.” – (Jared Spool – User Interface Engineering)

A surprising number of websites are not being properly managed. A particular area of concern is content quality. Many managers have not put professional publishing procedures in place. They do not know what is being published on their websites. This is an unacceptable situation.” – (Gerry McGovern)

“Interface utopia is either invisible or enhances the information or experience. After all, that is the purpose of the interface in the first place. The interface is simply a medium, one that should be as inconspicuous as possible. Due to the limitations of technology, we have become conditioned to believe that the interface is both something that we need to be aware of and a tangible part of an experience. That is simply not true.” – (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)

Conference on ‘Semantic Web’ at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Mark Vanderbeeken – Interaction Design Institute Ivrea)

“You had to get a handle on your mushrooming content. First, you bought a document management (DM) system. Then you implemented Web content management (WCM). Finally, you invested in a digital asset management (DAM) system.” (Tony Byrne – EContent) – courtesy of louis rosenfeld

“Libraries in the future will undertake local control, especially for long-term preservation and accessibility of digital as well as analog collections. Failure to embrace that role would cause libraries and librarians rapidly to lose relevance and value as Internet and other digital resources develop. Local control of collections is critical both to assure permanence and to provide a key degree of selectivity, which – contrary to the irrational exuberance of making everything available to everybody – is vital to providing service to communities of readers.” (Michael A. Keller, Victoria A. Reich, and Andrew C. Herkovic – First Monday 8.5)

“This paper is the keynote address given at the Web-Wise 2003 Conference on Thursday, February 27, 2003 in Washington, D.C.” (Robert Coonrod – First Monday 8.5)