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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		Heaps o' interaction design links. Posted on 08/12/2001. A veritable treasure trove of linky love for y'all... From RRE: Interaction Spaces for 21st Century Computing - Terry Winograd's take on where interaction design is heading in the ubiquitous world Designing for Communities Sticker Shock - The Rising Costs of Scientific Journals - I'm finding the whole debate around the publishing and costs of scientific journals fascinating. In large part because it's so overwhelmingly clear that scientific journals are a vestige of an earlier economic reality, now superceded by networked publishing. A lengthy look at the discussion can be found here. Maneesh, creator of LineDrive, pointed me to this lengthy presentation on treemaps, a form of data visualization he feels to be of some value. Jess pointed me to Dodge Magazine, which, on page 19 (yes, you have to page through) has an intriguing display of transit maps. 0 comments so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "Where the lungs are as high as an elephant's eye..." Next entry: "A little concerned by the implications." Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.