thoughtfarmer in the vancouver sun
Darren and I made the Vancouver Sun today, with Peter Wilson's article about our wiki-inspired intranet platform ThoughtFarmer. It's currently in use at Intrawest here in Vancouver, powering their intranet for their Placemaking (resort development) division, which operates across North America.
Why we were told to look away from the camera beats me...
I did a quickie write-up of the article over at if/then, the OpenRoad blog. Vancouver Sun subscribers can get a copy of the article to read - I'll try to find out if we can get permission to reprint it on our website in full for those without access.
Also to note, look for some more writing from us soon on our experience rolling it out to 3500 primary care physicans and their medical office assistants for a large health authority here in BC... that's wrapping up and soon to be launched and there's some really interesting UI things going on there, in particular the use of some powerful faceted browsing techniques.
But more on that later.
Why we were told to look away from the camera beats me...
I did a quickie write-up of the article over at if/then, the OpenRoad blog. Vancouver Sun subscribers can get a copy of the article to read - I'll try to find out if we can get permission to reprint it on our website in full for those without access.
Also to note, look for some more writing from us soon on our experience rolling it out to 3500 primary care physicans and their medical office assistants for a large health authority here in BC... that's wrapping up and soon to be launched and there's some really interesting UI things going on there, in particular the use of some powerful faceted browsing techniques.
But more on that later.
1 Comments:
The photographer told you to look away from the camera because he was desperately fearful of entering into the realm of "cliche".
In shooter argot, "cliche" means any picture which serves the needs of the assignment and looks pleasing, but has been seen before. The cool-photojournalists' code says that such pictures are forbidden, and therefore a weird but novel angle is preferred.
Less explicable in this case is how you and Darren managed to dress in nearly the same shirt, and why the photographer decided to overlap your bodies for the shot, thus making you look like a two-headed information-architecting creature.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
No, really, the photo isn't that bad, but it's more fun to mock than to ignore.
The parallel I see is between the photographer's disdain for cliche and the architect's (non-information subgenre) disdain for cliche. I think it can lead both professions into madness in the name of originality.
Someone ought to tell them that the guy who said make it new was either a fascist, insane, or both.
And I for one don't think it was a coincidence he was at the centre of Modernism.
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