“Design is creation in or alteration of the world to meet the needs and desires of people.” (Dirk Knemeyer and Nathan Shedroff)

“What is data, really? Data is an idea, an abstraction, a particular collection of positive and negative assertions encoded on a spinning magnetic platter, later interpreted by the end user in a manner that they find pleasing.” (Rob Flickinger – O’Reilly Weblogs)

“(…) an analysis of Club Nexus, an online community at Stanford University. Through the Nexus site we were able to study a reflection of the real world community structure within the student body. We observed and measured social network phenomena such as the small world effect, clustering, and the strength of weak ties. Using the rich profile data provided by the users we were able to deduce the attributes contributing to the formation of friendships, and to determine how the similarity of users decays as the distance between them in the network increases. In addition, we found correlations between users’ personalities and their other attributes, as well as interesting correspondences between how users perceive themselves and how they are perceived by others.” (Lada A. Adamic, Orkut Buyukkokten, and Eytan Adar – First Monday 8.6)

“You should only publish on your website the content that you can professionally manage. Managing content involves managing its entire life cycle. The life of a particular piece of content begins with its first draft. It ends when that content is removed from publication. Removing content is as important as publishing it.” (Gerry McGovern)

“What’s wrong with ‘design’? Well, there’s nothing wrong with the practice, but plenty wrong with the word’s associations.” (PeterMe)