Reading On comments and weblogs -
"With the proliferation of commenting-ability in today's weblog tools, it might make sense for people to think a bit before blindly turning on comments, whether for an individual or group blog."
it does occur to me most folks really don't have to think this hard-- you have to get some serious traffic to generate the kind of comments that causes the work she describes-- but it's a thoughtful post nonce.
The best UI critique of Orkut (IMO), but also he's right about the pointlessness, He's right about ownership, he's right about the interaction and this is what it looks like.
YASNS stands for Yet Another Social Networking Service and Orkut is clearly YASNS. With emphasis on the YA.
Three days in I'm wondering why bother?
BTW, I won't invite you if I don't know you/know of you-- I feel like social networks are broken by "false connections."
but you can buy your way in....
I'm supposed to be writing all weekend. and so I'm ducking, returning, ducking. sigh.
A while back, Peter Merholz, Noel Franus and I hosted/organized a User Experience Cocktail hour. It began as an IA cocktail hour, but became inclusive of User Experiences, as inclusiveness made for better discussions, including better discussions about IA.
However, the list was hosted on some quite buggy software, and Noel has just managed to extract the original list. I've requested folks resign up here:
Bayue Info Page. This is stable technology, and Boxes and Arrows is not going anywhere soon, and we're unaffliated wiht any company, so it should be a happy home for anyone to post and receive messages about either Peter Merholz's beginning of an UE Salon, Brad Lauster's reviving of the Cocktail hour, John Zapolski's exciting UX gathering, my UE Manger's gathering or any other related IA/UE event.
So if you are in the bay area (i.e. near San Francisco), go ahead and sign up. Hopefully we'll see each other soon!
i travel a lot, but not that many places, it seems
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