Brian’s comment at RemainingRelevant should resonate with many of us:
Something to consider about why libraries end up with bad interfaces (at least as far as catalogs go) is that it might be that the people who use the interface (and help the public use it) are not the people who decide which interface to use.
When [...]

Posted May 7, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: compare, decision, decision making, market, market forces, process, software, suck, sucks, sucky, the pledge, training, usability, vendors. 5 Comments.

A: Because we compare them to the wrong things.
I’m in training today for a piece of software used in libraries. It’s the second of three days of training and things aren’t going well. Some stuff doesn’t work, some things don’t work the first (second, third…ninth) time, and other things just don’t make sense. At [...]

Posted May 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: bad answers, compare, comparison, competition, crap, developers, development, failure, future libraries, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, software, startups, suck, sucks, sucky, training, vendors. 14 Comments.

CMS Market Watch tells us that there are 1,800 CMS vendors, and some of them are getting a little feisty.
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Posted December 1, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: 1800, cms, cms vendors, competition, content management system, content management systems, feisty, marketplace, vendor, vendors. One Comment.