Information Maven: Greg Meyer

Joel Spolsky is one of my favorite writers on programming and general technology. A former Microsoft manager, Spolsky writes clearly and deftly about many subjects.
Spolsky’s recent article on building a better shipping contraption to fulfill orders for his company’s products is a good example of specializing to meet a need in your business. […]

[Read more →]

I recently read John Battelle’s excellent book The Search on the beginnings of Google, and the many search pioneers such as WebCrawler, Altavista, Lycos, and others you may remember. I was struck by the way that I view information today: as a problem with a solution out there, waiting to be found.
A perfect example […]

[Read more →]

Owen Linzmayer writes about the making of the “1984″ commercial for the Macintosh. Enjoy this blast from the past.

[Read more →]

Whatever you do, dontclick.it.
This site is a fascinating usability experiment and design study for the use of non-clicking metaphors in online content. Even when I tried not to click, I managed to click a few times.
Enjoy!

[Read more →]

Some enterprising soul has posted video game ads from 1982. It’s a great window into time to see what was important 23 years ago to the world of gaming. It’s even more amusing to think that my phone has more memory and gaming capability than most of the systems listed here. […]

[Read more →]