Another list of links for today (I definitely need to figure out how to re-categorize them): 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School article, a must read for designers.
On the design side, Daniel Rosenberg from Oracle on Seven Myths of Usability ROI, telling current ROI models are inadequate. While from information studies related article, there is a Report of the Archives Task Force which makes clear recommendations to Government to transform and revitalise the UK’s archives. Interesting summary on the high cost of not finding information. University of Washington – Keeping Found Things Found survey (and the result) as well as The State of the News Media 2004 survey which provide a comprehensive look each year at the state of American journalism.
On a ‘lighter’ side. Cornell’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections investigates the evolution of games since 1800. Finally, a handy MSDN article explaining all the basics of blogging.