Simon Willison’s Weblog

Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual. “[I] was struck by how it had to explain a total paradigm shift in interacting with computers”.

# 5:32 am / documentation, mac, peter-merholtz

Long pages work. And thanks to Pay Per Click advertising, splitting an article over multiple pages to get more ad impressions doesn’t make sense any more.

# 12:40 pm / information-architecture, payperclick, peter-van-dijck

Ganeti (via) New from Google (developed in the Zurich office): virtual server management tool designed to “facilitate cluster management”, built on top of Xen.

# 9:51 pm / ganeti, google, virtualisation, xen

XFML (via) Throwing the new home for the XFML specification some Google juice; the domain name got nabbed by a squatter.

# 10:27 pm / google, information-architecture, peter-van-dijck, xfml