From: Gleanings
To: Crispy critters
Subject: Gleanings: deep fried
OPENING THANG
From the blog:
My friend Erika put it best:
"It's all about setting expectations. If the box had been labeled 'Deep
fried chicken wings and heads' no one would have been upset."
http://dailypress.com/news/stories/87795sy0.htm
DESIGN MATTERS
celebrating poor design
http://lepoordesign.com/
APROPOS OF NOTHING
http://www.rethink.demon.co.uk/laugh.html
be sure to listen to the xmas interview under "on the hour" The longer
version is worth it.
USABILITY MATTERS
"Butterfly ballots" like those used in Palm Beach County are significantly more confusing than standard ballots, and middle-aged voters using butterfly ballots are far more likely to vote mistakenly for a candidate they don't support, according to Canadian research being published in a scientific journal.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6571-2000Nov30.html
NEWS
Boston Globe: Monsieur, do you Yahoo? But rather than rail against the injustice of the Gomez decision, let's focus on a more practical question: Can it be enforced? Can an Internet company block access to citizens of a particular country, while leaving the rest of us free to surf wherever we wish?
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/335/business/Monsieur_do_you_Yahoo_+.shtml
posted by Christina Wodtke 11/30/2000 04:00:54 PM
From: Gleanings
To: Breakfast of Champions
Subject: Gleanings: BiggerGleanings
OPENING THANG
Had breakfast with mike of biggerhand yesterday morning. He's doing some interesting stuff on www.biggerhand.com, undermining classic web conventions such as "help" and "my biggerhand.com." If you haven't visited lately, check it out.
USABILITY MATTERS
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for November 26 is now online at:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001126.html
The big lie of computer security is that security improves by imposing
complex passwords on users.
In real life, people write down anything they can't remember.
Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave.
NEWS & EDITORIAL
International Buy Nothing Day is celebrated around the world
on November 24, 25, or 26, depending on which country you're in.
This is a day that's set aside to encourage people to think
carefully about what they spend their money on.
However, along with the increasingly popular Buy Nothing Day,
there has been one major self-inflicted impediment in the
advertising/business world's quest for global acceptance of
shop-till-you-drop syndrome. That is, quite simply, that online
consumers, tired of being ignored by the companies they'd like
to do business with, are talking to each other in ever-increasing
numbers.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/analysis/weekly_editorial/archives/issue1no154.html
eTranslate: America's grip on ecommerce market slipping
The US ecommerce sector is often looked on as the leading light of
the digital economy, but a survey released last week revealed that
Internet users in several countries were more likely than US users to
buy certain goods online.
http://www.etranslate.com/en/about/pr-idc3.html
SpyLOG: Microsoft dominates Russian market
Microsoft is the dominant brand among Russian browsers and operating
systems, according to new findings by Internet researcher SpyLOG.
http://www.spylog.ru/
Surviving Master, Pets.com Mascot Seeks New Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/27/technology/27SOCK.html
(Registration required.)
Web Merchants Head for Exits
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/27/technology/27ECOMMERCE.html
(Registration required.)
Is Dot-Biz Really a New Domain?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40301,00.html
posted by Christina Wodtke 11/28/2000 08:54:53 AM
From: Gleanings
To: tummies
Subject: Gleanings: Joining the Thanksgiving Recovery Program
OPENING THANG
So, I had a very traditional beige-plate thanksgiving
(for my foreign readers, that's a plate with beige turkey, white potatoes with beige gravy all over them, beige stuffing and green bean casserole -- which is typically beige, since it's made with cream of mushroom soup. It's a meal that has remained unchanged since 1953-- think "happy days").
The upside is that I managed not to stuff myself, and here's hoping if y'all did, at least it wasn't with something beige. sigh.
If only we had cooked from this
http://www.epicurious.com/e_eating/e04_thanks/main.html
Also, my blog wasn't getting updated because of a blogger bug. But I was able to fix it, and there are bunch of ramblings up there now. enjoy.
http://www.eleganthack.com/blog/index.html
USABILITY MATTERS
from InteractionArchoitect.com
"Our exploratory user study on the use of a major portal site in Belgium
shows that a category of "skeptical Internet users" has abandoned searching
the web. The skeptical Internet user has made a return-on-investment
evaluation of his Internet experience, and has come to the conclusion that
the return on some sites is just not worth the investment of his personal
time and energy."
Read more at
http://www.interactionarchitect.com/articles/article20001122.htm
and I'm also touting this site
http://www.usabilitysucks.com
although I'm still annoyed usable and beautiful are being shoved into two camps.
NEWS
Vive la liberté!
"The chances of the French ruling against Yahoo! ever being enforced are slim. But it may still set a dangerous precedent"
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=434168
This scares me.
getting grandma wired
http://strom.com/awards/224.html
mandatory reading if you plan to put an imac in your parent's stocking this year.
posted by Christina Wodtke 11/26/2000 09:52:15 AM
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