“It was an excellent collection of presentations, perhaps not pulling together to make a tightly wound unified whole, but covering a number of interesting elements pertaining to knowledge presentation. In total, both conferences and all four days, an excellent experience!” (Dirk Knemeyer)

“Document engineering is an emerging discipline within computer science that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. As with the relationship between software engineering and software, document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, and maintain documents.” – (ACM)

“If weblogs can create a communicative socio-dynamic interaction, how is this “dynamic” generated and maintained? What kind of educational goals do they support?” – (Oliver Wrede) – courtesy of dave winer

“2by Two Conference (…) Not many conferences are four day affairs, but this multi-conference collaboration between the Institute of Design (Chicago) and the International Institute for Information Design is one such event.” – (Dirk Knemeyer)

“Everyone knows that there are serious problems with objectivity. At last we may have a corrective, a way of thinking that doesn’t fall into the obvious traps. Oddly, it’s little ol’ weblogs that are leading the way.” (David Weinberger – KMWorld) – courtesy of elearningpost

Bestsellers, Booklists, Visual Design and Information Design (Mantex)

“PowerPoint is standard … but bad. Why?” – (Aaron Swartz) – courtesy of mark bernstein

“Spam reflects an information economy where content is extremely easy and cheap to publish. Spam is just the tip of the iceberg. For every page printed, there are 30.000 ‘pages’ published on computers. Today, glut is a far greater problem than scarcity. We are slowly being drowned by vast quantities of useless content.” – (Gerry McGovern)

“Think on an information design level, not a Web development level.” – (Dirk Knemeyer – Digital Web Magazine)

“Even with advanced design tools, the design process typically produces a description of the desired artifact, but leaves little or no indication of the design rationale. We end up knowing what was designed, but often have no idea why it is the way it is, what motivated the particular design, what alternatives were considered and rejected, etc.” – (MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab) – courtesy of purse lip square jaw

“For many, content management is a web-related term, referring primarily to the written content published on a website or stored within a related database. For others, content management is an extension of traditional document management services, the digital capturing of paper and virtual documents for standardized storage and retrieval.” – (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)

“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)