media
Is traditional publishing workflow out of date?
 The last few contracts I have done were centred on international publishing projects, and what transpired was that the old publishing workflow is out of date and costly.  From a technology angle, it is a convoluted process, that relies on human intervention at key stages. One solution is for trusted authors to [...]
Self-facilitating media node
The Nathan Barley tv series was created by Charlie Brooker and genius Chris Morris, and was a satire on new media phonies. Based on website series created by Charlie, it poked fun at the surge of “noo-mediuh” types at turn of the millennium. Nathan embodied the worst characteristics of these new entrants into the [...]
Policed web - the paranoia continues …
The reaction to the the planned improvements to the web, has astounded me in the levels of resistance. Most of the adverse reactions are based around a paranoia that this is the thin end of a heavier policed internet. As the internet had already become a thriving ground for control freak corporations, insipid viral marketing, [...]
what do you think web 2.0 is?
There is so much hype around it, I wonder if there is anything new about web 2.0. As a test consultant, web accessibility concepts are nothing new, but I am more interested to hear what people’s perception of this movement is, outside of the wikipedia definition.
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Stan Relihan (Regional Manager NSW, Rosch Group)
Web 2.0 is [...]
New Methodology
After seeing post I raised related to Agile and other related methodologies, and how QA can adapt and improve (see post), a friend of mine raised a very valid suggestion - write a new methodology. In the course of consulting QA management work, adaptation of traditional QA processes has been essential, as well as [...]
Agile - Customer Focussed?
I believe the negative flipside of Agile, is that though the positives of rapid development, creativity are core to the methodology, the other core principle that that the customer/client (be it internal or external) can be lost in that environment. In such situations more traditional process, and communication can salvage the project, without damaging the [...]
