Brenda Laurel and Tog have joined the Nielsen-Norman group, giving them a stable of four computer industry rock stars to hire out for user interface design. I like Tog as a pundit much better than Nielsen, whose grating style drives me nuts. Brenda Laurel is famous mostly for starting a company that produced games for girls. It was purchased by Mattel.
The Industry Standard has an article on precedents for the disruption currently being caused by Napster. Examples include the player piano and the VCR.
There’s a lot of talk about how Joseph Lieberman is a conservative Democrat, and I guess he is, but he still managed to earn a 57% rating from the ACLU last year, and has earned a 100% rating from the League of Conservation Voters for five of the last seven years.
AOL has thrust the second preview release of Netscape 6 into the world on the heels of last week’s barrage of bad press for the Mozilla project. By all accounts, it’s slow, broken, and crashes frequently. One wonders why Netscape opted to package what they have so far into another branded preview release, given that it delays the final release and just makes them look bad. The browser isn’t even feature complete yet. If you do want to check out Mozilla, download a milestone release at mozilla.org … the Netscape branded stuff is a waste of your time.