February 19, 2005 – MichaelZimmer.org

Ellen Ullman on “Attentional User Interfaces”

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 19, 2005in Values In Design

(via Question Technology)Ellen Ullman has a great op-ed in the New York Times today about computers and attention:There are unused icons on your desktop": this message sometimes appears in a balloon on the lower right-hand corner of my computer screen.…

Safeway Shopper Card Leads to (false) Arson Arrest

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 19, 2005in Internet, Privacy

(via A blog doesn't need a clever name)Richard Smith at ComputerBytesMan writes about how a frequent shopping card database led to a false arrest:Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip Scott Lyons found out the hard way that supermarket loyalty cards can come…