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Case study of Microsoft’s intranet. A substantial and excellent case study of Microsoft’s intranet and the information architecture challenges that had to be addressed. Worth the time. Boxes and Arrows: MSWeb: An Enterprise Intranet #1. Fascinating look at Microsoft’s Intranet Information Architecture [Roland Tanglao’s Weblog] It’s nearly impossible to develop a successful information architecture against…

If you’re a football fan and haven’t found Gregg Easterbrook’s column, be sure to check it out. He used to write for Slate, but has now switched to ESPN. Gregg is what Dennis Miller should have been for Monday Night Football: crazy knowledge about the game matched with an off-beat sense of humor. Enjoy his…

Denise Howell blogs from the Harvard Business School Publishing Next Generation Growth Conference, and comments specifically on the Komisar, Zook, Cook and Foster Panel. One quote in particular caught my eye: Creative Destruction: markets outperform coporations. Long term survival and long term performance are not the same thing. Foster chooses to take an investor return…

I held a Sidekick last night – happened to pass by a T-Mobile (aka “The cellular company formerly known as Voicestream but now we’ve hired Catherine Zeta-Jones and got rid of Jamie Lee Curtis”) stall at a mall and checked it out. Initial reaction: great form factor, nice big screen, very functional design. The construction…

The shape of the InternetIt is less random than people thought Oct 3rd 2002 [Economist.com: Science & Technology] From the article: Dr Barabasi [at University of Notre Dame] noticed that the World Wide Web (the most visible bit of the Internet) was scale-free in 1999. His observation touched off a flurry of research, and others…

My, how the Brits have fallen. Thirty years ago, Monty Python revealed that they had discovered the funniest joke in the world. It was so funny, in fact, that a team of translators were working on snippets of the joke. The sketch begins somberly, and escalates in classic Python style, until the Colonel declares that…

Words can’t express the combination of horror, humor, and shock: http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm Enjoy.

Thanks to the wonders of TiVo (and its dual tuner), we were able to watch both West Wing and the season premiere of Amazing Race tonight. Steven wanted to know who was singing at the end of the West Wing episode; thanks to a visitor to his site, we now know it was Aimee Mann.…

Did anyone else receive this e-mail yesterday? What’s amazing is that Pointcast died at least a couple years ago… but someone held on to the e-mail lists.

When they tell you that any press is good press, make sure “they” take a look at this article. This is most certainly not good press for the Michigan firm of Olsman Mueller & James: Bookkeeper falls for Nigerian e-Mail Spam Scam, steals $2.1m from law firm. [via Earl Bockenfeld’s Radio Weblog]