Daily Archives: October 9th, 2007

TiddlyChatter v0.5

I’m pleased to announce the first “usable” release of TiddlyChatter, a project I’ve written about before here and here.
You can find an example TiddlyWiki loaded up with TiddlyChatter (hit right-click to save) here. (And another with different colours for testing on one machine)
The instructions are all in there. I’ve thought hard about the user
interface, and [...]

The cognitive style of TiddlyWiki

“The [PowerPoint] slide format has the worst signal/noise ratio of any known method of communication on paper or computer screen.” [page 26]

I have just finished reading an essay entitled “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within“, by Edward R. Tufte, which has been a brilliant read. Tufte’s assertion, evidenced by almost a dozen [...]