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Broken Voting Machine UX
Albert Wenger – Nov 4, 2010
One more post on voting, but this tome about UX design. The new optical scanners have an awful user experience. Two things really stuck out. First, it was entirely unclear whether to insert one’s ballot face up or face down [...] Read more
US Elections: Democracy 0 – Structural Change 1
Albert Wenger – Nov 3, 2010
The election is over and the results are as expected bad for the Democrats. I worry a bit that we are experiencing first hand the limits of democracy. We have a great many people voting out of frustration with the [...] Read more
Supporting or Enabling?
Albert Wenger – Nov 2, 2010
There is a fine line between supporting and enabling. I find this is true as much at home as in business. When one of our children asks for help with a homework assignment, I tend to provide it to be [...] Read more
Voting
Albert Wenger – Nov 1, 2010
Tomorrow is a big election as potentially control of both houses is on the line. But why vote? There is something known as the “paradox of voting,” which questions why a rational voter would bother voting at all. The reasoning [...] Read more
A World (Online) Without Money
Albert Wenger – Oct 29, 2010
This is part of my series of posts thinking about a coming age of abundance. The main thrust of my arguments will be that abundance will be a feature of the physical world, but I would be the first to [...] Read more
Talent Agency for Engineers and Product Managers?
Albert Wenger – Oct 28, 2010
With so much infrastructure to build on, we are seeing smaller and smaller teams achieve amazing things. The combination of someone with a great product sense and one or two exceptional engineers can build and launch a new product or [...] Read more
Beware the Firesheep
Albert Wenger – Oct 27, 2010
I have long operated an open and unsecured wifi access point at home. Why? For anything that really requires security, such as online banking, I am relying on end-to-end encryption via SSL. That requires being somewhat diligent to make sure [...] Read more
Clarifications Re Net Neutrality
Albert Wenger – Oct 26, 2010
Last week I wrote that content owners’ decision to block access to TV content they had made available on the web based on recognizing which browser it was (in particular identifying and blocking Google TV) was a threat to net [...] Read more
A Great Many (Evening) Events
Albert Wenger – Oct 25, 2010
By at least one metric of the health and growth of the NY startup community things could hardly be going better: the quality and quantity of events. This week alone there seems to be at least one event every day [...] Read more