Friday, July 18, 2003

New Encyclopedia Gives Cool-Hunters a Road Map for Ads. The entire scope of the world of advertising is being surveyed in a three-volume, $385, 1,873 page work: the Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising. By Edward Rothstein. [New York Times: Business] 10:14:46 PM    comment []

In The Time It Takes To Email The President.... Plastic::SciTech::Internet: 'Overall, it's a very cumbersome process... It's probably designed deliberately to cut down on their e-mail,' Nielsen said, adding that the new email system fails his test for usability on a number of counts. [Plastic: Most Recent] 10:13:01 PM    comment []

Cameraphones & 2D Barcodes. You don't have to wait for some Fortune 500 company to give you a way to annotate and click on places and things. Semacode has come up with a scheme involving cameraphones and 2d barcodes. (Thanks, Simon!) [Smart Mobs] 5:23:42 PM    comment []

White House to E-Mailers: Go Away. NYT: White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly. Under a system deployed on the White House Web site for the... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 8:00:17 AM    comment []

White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly. Those who want to send a message to the president must now navigate as many as nine Web pages and fill out a form that asks if they support White House policy. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Business] 7:57:04 AM    comment []

Videocams Record Airline Flights. At least one airline plans to install video cameras throughout its planes to record passengers and their activities at all times. What's more, they may keep the video for up to 10 years. Privacy advocates are not pleased. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News] 7:55:33 AM    comment []