q: "So is there no place for the Jakob Nielsens of the world?"
a: "I think that usability is dead. That's really extreme to say, but I don't think my users are dumb."
Despite recount, Bush cautiously claims victory - November 8, 2000
"In a separate controversy, Palm Beach County voters complained that their punch card ballots had the names of presidential candidates on two pages instead of one. The voters said it led to confusion and they may have voted for Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan when they had intended to vote for Gore.
"I saw it myself with my own eyes," Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Florida, told CNN. "I talked to hundreds of people. There is no doubt there was mass confusion in Palm Beach County yesterday at the ballot box, which resulted in at least it seems about 3,000 plus votes for Pat Buchanan and I know that that's incorrect.""
From: Gleanings
To: voters
Subject: Gleanings: no president but lots of usability
OPENING THANG
dang, this is the closest presidential election I've ever seen. at 6 a.m. this morning, it was still a tie, waiting for Florida to chose the next president.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/
News.Com: Web sites run with early election results.
In a one-paragraph brief, Inside acknowledged that the latest presidential
election results remain wildly sketchy, but the online magazine nonetheless
posted the information based on reports given to it by several journalists who
saw the coveted data, which is collected by Voter News Service.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3424618.html
USABILITY AND DESIGN MATTERS
everybody's talking about it:
"usability is dead"
http://www.adobe.com/web/gallery/valcasey/main.html
and I assume everyone has already read this while I was away?
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html
Flash: 99% Bad
here are the responses on CHI-WEB
http://www.acm.org/archives/wa.cgi?A1=ind0011a&L=chi-web#11
http://www.acm.org/archives/wa.cgi?A1=ind0011b&L=chi-web#2
and the posts where someone called for a "good use of flash anyone?"
http://www.acm.org/archives/wa.cgi?A1=ind0011a&L=chi-web#19
NEWS
Interactive Week: Microsoft Betting On The Tablet PC.
Tablet PC is the working title of a new concept from Microsoft -- and a pet
project of chairman and chief technology officer Bill Gates -- that, according
to sources, will be powered by processors from upstart chip maker Transmeta
Corp.
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2650823,00.html
NY Times: Publisher Sets Policy on E-Books.
Although the demand for books to be read on a screen remains largely
theoretical, agents for authors and publishers have already begun arguing over
how much of the proceeds from electronic book sales to bookstores and
middlemen should belong to writers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/technology/07BOOK.html