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From: Gleanings
To: flashaholics
Subject: Gleanings: I lied
OPENING THANG
Okay, I wasn't going to glean today, but it was link-mania yesterday: the universe was conspiring to share interesting stuff with me, and how could I not share back with you-all?
IA & DESIGN MATTERS
Human Factors International Articles
ones I'm excited to read include: Managing Your Defense Against GUI's from Hell, Pull Down Menus: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Key Tips for User-Centered GUI Design and Icons: Much Ado about Something
http://www.humanfactors.com/library/mar01.asp
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Like to critique other people's work?
http://www.sitecritique.net
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Information Architecture, an electronic web guide
"How many times have you gone to a web site looking for specific information and you weren't able to find it? Organizing informational content on a web site can be a very difficult and complicated endeavor, and most web developers lack the skills necessary to perform such tasks. Luckily, a new discipline is emerging in the web world that is tackling this very problem.It's called Information Architecture. "
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/class/clis748/webguidesf98/informationarchitecture_index.html
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How Architects Think
"The purpose of the experiment was to study the role and potential of mental
imagery in the architectural design process."
http://anshuman_singh.tripod.com/protocol.htm
LEARNING MATTERS
Good site for learning the basics of web design and webmastering. Simple and friendly.
http://www.designsbymark.com/
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Barnes&Nobel University
"It's FREE - join today! Enter an online classroom now and learn everything you wish they'd taught in school. Live instructors and students are online now! "
http://www.barnesandnobleuniversity.com/bnu/
USABILITY MATTERS
The Non-Verbal Web
"In preparation for a class I'm teaching this quarter on Interface Design, I re-read Norman's The Design of Everyday Things (aka POET), which I am using as one of three pillars of the class.
I was struck (again) by the concept of perceived affordance. My communications background causes me to think of this as "the non-verbal language of objects" -- it's how I perceive the object's mode of interaction. Whether my perception matches the design reality will determine my satisfaction. "
http://www.cyberwriter.com/TFM/2001/01-06.html
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Helping and Hindering User Involvement - A Tale of Everday Design
"This case study provides a detailed account of the obstacles and facilitators to user involvement that were identified during the design of a computer application. The factors that affected user involvement included contracting design services, selecting users, motivating users, facilitating and mediating meetings and offering points of focus for user contributions. "
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/paper/sw-obf.htm
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Bad Human Factors Designs
"A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles. "
http://www.baddesigns.com/
my favorite:
http://www.baddesigns.com/mopsnk.html
NEWS
Greenfield Online: Consumers don't want Net-enabled cars
"Consumers are far less interested in having email or music downloading
facilities in their cars than they are in having built-in systems to
deter thieves and sensors to alert them to hazards on the road."
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905356666&rel=true
~~~
IDG.net: Unproductive email like "being killed by friendly fire"
"While lawmakers and company bosses are increasingly concerned about
the levels of spam email, a new study says that unproductive internal
emails take up 30 percent of employees' time spent reading email."
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905356675&rel=true
~~~
Netcraft: Domain name registration slumps
"New data from Netcraft shows that there has been a dramatic reduction
in new domain name registrations."
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905356677&rel=true
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SBC: DSL users just love their high-speed Net
Internet users with high-speed DSL connections at home say their DSL
link is an important household technology and would rather sacrifice
other media before they gave up their DSL.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905356682&rel=true
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MSNBC: Gadgets offering 'convergence' show whole can be less than sum of
parts. (via tomalak.org)
It is an old story that keeps getting retold. Bewitched by the promise of "convergence" -- the blending of communications, entertainment and computing -- and galvanized by the Internet, engineers and marketers are dreaming up a new class of high-tech Swiss Army knives.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/564130.asp
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Guru: Engineers Won't Design Next-Gen Systems
"It's not you guys" who will build equipment and systems that are easy to use, said Norman, of the Nielsen Norman consultancy. "You're the wrong people." Instead, future systems will be designed "by psychologists and social scientists working in combination with engineers and technologists," he said he predicted.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990507S0002
comment on this article in the blog
http://www.eleganthack.com/blog/archives/00000030.html
APROPOS OF NOTHING
why are we glad flash exists? today's apropos of nothing should prove the joy of the medium:
Kung-fu, stick figure style. it was just like the tavern scene in "crouching tiger, lousy title" except everyone is a stick figure.
http://www.collegehumor.com/temp/fight3.swf
this arrived with the subject heading"The latest demonstration of the power of the Internet..."
http://user.tninet.se/~prv247p/hatt/hatten.swf
and in that same category of "because we can, we will"
http://member.iquest.net/~derecho/pika.swf
I cannot recommend these two short flash works too highly. my jaw dropped onto the floor (esp.. the second) turn up the sound and enjoy.
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kate points at the very goofy swedish
http://www.fjallfil.com/
she says "Have you run across www.fjallfil.com in your travels? It seemed timely in light of a recent chi-web discussion about drag-n-drop interfaces (but since I'm fairly new to the list I felt a wee bit shy about submitting such a very silly site). enjoy. "
no one should ever have anything against silly! (oh, and you can click over to English at the bottom)
posted by Christina Wodtke 4/26/2001 08:40:38 AM
From: Gleanings
To: humptyhump
Subject: Gleanigns: a little bit of everything today
OPENING THANG
Hump day.. I'm holding down my publishing to three times a week. Saner for me, saner for you.
in the blog.. conversation happens! two topics, one on the nature of the blog and one on personal sites, are spurring fine little chats.
http://eleganthack.com/blog/index.html
IA MATTERS
White Paper: Analyzing the Analysts
"Chiara Fox and Keith Instone evaluate the information architectures of the major analyst firms. Find out if these "thought leaders" in the IT industry practice what they preach."
http://argus-acia.com/white_papers/analysts.html
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a garden of experience design papers. yum.
http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/members/woodruff/publications.htm
~~~
Less academic is the Human Factors collection, including titles like
"Managing Your Defense Against GUI's from Hell " and "Screen Writing: "Brevity is the Soul of Wit""
http://www.humanfactors.com/library/GUIdesign.asp
~~~
while poking around xerox parc, I discovered this, an interesting overview of the makeup of the web (the html version has some of the ugliest clipart known to man)
http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/~woodruff/inktomi/
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Interesting look at video games "as a way to play around with strategies and ideas." on captain cursor
http://www.captaincursor.com/archive/2001_04_22_blog.xml#3357642
DESIGN MATTERS
continuing to debunk the myth of 800x600
Real-World Browser Size Stats, Part II evolt.org, Site Development
http://evolt.org/article/Real_World_Browser_Size_Stats_Part_II/20/2297/index
and from Human Factors International
"A website is best when it is designed for a monitor resolution that matches the monitor resolution of the majority of your users. This provides a full-screen layout for those who desire to use the full width of their monitor for web pages."
http://www.humanfactors.com/library/mar01.asp#bailey
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For those who don't know, it is free to subscribe to emigre magazine if you are in the US. and quite worth it. don't be fooled by the spartan website, the magazine is delicious, if sometimes obtuse.
http://www.emigre.com/EMaSu.html
NEWS & COMMENTARY
Salon: Time to buy a new computer -- but why? (via tomalak.org)
Scott Rosenberg. This year, though, when the alarm went off, something strange
happened: I woke up, took a look around at both my current computer of choice
and the possible replacements, hit the snooze alarm and went back to sleep.
Maybe next year.
http://salon.com/tech/col/rose/2001/04/23/buying_pcs/index.html
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Music Protection Faces Fresh Battle
"The recording industry has threatened a Princeton University computer scientist with legal action if his research group presents a paper at an academic conference this week describing how it is possible to circumvent an industry music-protection system. "
http://www.iht.com/articles/17931.html
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Online Courses to Improve Teacher Technology Skills
"Teachers seeking to boost their technology skills can choose from a growing variety of online offerings ranging from three-week skill boosting courses to labor-intensive master's degrees. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/25/technology/25EDUCATION.html
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Business Travel: Singapore Airlines Introduces In-Flight E-Mail
"For over a year, airlines have been fiddling around with technology and fretting about when and how they're going to introduce in-flight e-mail and Internet capability on their airplanes. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/25/technology/25TRAV.html
TECH MATTERS
love it!!!! (via xblog.com)
"Still can't decide whether to use PHP scripts, Perl CGIs, or Java servlets for your next Web development project? This article will help you decide by providing a side-by-side comparison of the functioning source code of all three languages. The three simple example programs provided take you from the most basic server-side scripts through object orientation to a simple Web storefront presenting product information to a user. Reading this article will give you a good idea of the difference between these three languages, and a better idea of which one is right for you."
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-sssl.html
MARKETING MATTERS
from one of the cluetrain kids
Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices By Christopher Locke
"This is a serious book. No fooling.
Now right off the bat that has to make you wonder, right? Because most books, especially business books, pretty much take it for granted that you believe that going in. Of course the book is serious. That’s why you bought it. Either that, or you needed an over-the-counter alternative to your regular insomnia medication. Don’t laugh. Recent studies show that seven out of ten business book buyers are really looking for semantic Sominex. And, as Harley Manning of Forrester Research points out in his insightful report – “The Snooze Factor: Sleepy Time in the Management Aisle” – these consumers find what they’re looking for in 82% of all online book transactions."
http://205.178.173.189/gonzomarkets.com/intro.html
and from another...
Pulp Email: Spring Cleaning, Tarantino-Style By Eric Norlin
"I have received so many badly written, badly constructed, just all around Bad email newsletters as of late that I have reached my personal tipping point (with a hat deferred to Malcolm). As such, I’m about to get viral on your, um, bum.
Eric’s Rules for Writing a Decent Email Newsletter"
http://www.marketingprofs.com/emarketing/pulpemail.asp
APROPOS OF NOTHING
Kottke points to "Pseudodictionary: "this is the place where all of your made up words, slang, webspeak and colloquialisms become part of the dictionary as well. we take the words you use every day, but aren't in the dictionary, and put them into ours. all you have to is submit them. you'll even get credit and a link to your website (if you've got one). help us grow our dictionary by sending us your entries now! everyday more entries are added, so check back often.""
http://www.pseudodictionary.com/
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Fun picture, though I'm sure it's not so fun for the residents of davenport, Iowa which has flooded.. again.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Midwest-Flooding.html
posted by Christina Wodtke 4/25/2001 08:57:56 AM
From: Gleanings
To: workerbees
Subject: Gleanings: light and fluffy
OPENING THANG
To soften the blow of monday, check out apropos of nothing-- ton of stuff there.
As if you don't get enough out of gleanings, I added a bunch of links to the articles collection.
http://eleganthack.com/articles/index.html
New rant on personal sites in the blog
http://eleganthack.com/blog/index.html
IA & DESIGN MATTERS
A while ago george wrote this interesting piece for A List Apart:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/failure/
it's been up long enough now to engender some interesting debate.
http://www.alistapart.com/discuss/list.cfm?forum=64&collapse=1
I especially enjoyed the first one, though it showed to me that I'm not sure designers and usability people can ever communicate (or designers and coders, actually). The world views of these folks were just so radically different.
The Narrative Web
"Crafting a narrative web:To succeed profoundly, Bernstein says, websites must go beyond usability and design, deeply engaging readers by turning their journeys through the site into rich, memorable, narrative experiences. His thought-provoking comments make a lot of sense to us. "
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/narrative/
Das Bot: To Boldly Go Where Everyone Else Will Probably End Up...Eventually
"Our human search engine explores the margins of web design "
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/0,1819,3708,00.html
"MORE THAN LEGIBLE: on links that readers don't want to follow " (via noisebetweenstations.com)
http://www.markbernstein.org/talks/HT00.html
A Clash Between Game and Narrative (via hypertextkitchen.com)
Juul writes that:
"The thesis presents a strong position on the relation between games and narratives; that they are extremely different phenomena that do not mix well. It also features:
-Discussion on the possible use of narratology and hypertext theory for examining games.
-An examination of the relation between the player and game
-Readings of Witness, Doom II, Myst, and The Last Express.
http://www.jesperjuul.dk/thesis/
USABILITY MATTERS
Interface Usability in Flash
"Merien's tutorial shows how to use Flash as a tool for creating straightforward, serviceable, functioning Web sites."
http://www.iboost.com/build/software/flash/10046.htm
NEWS & COMMENTARY
"It's really unfair that after we artificially inflated the economy, ran most of the arts organizations out of town and put our trust in a sock puppet we didn't even get rich.
Perhaps it's just the tone of the article, but to hold a dot-com pity party in the middle of the Mission seems just a wee bit on the distasteful side. " from biggerhand.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_1280000/1280073.stm
BLOG OF THE DAY
relentlessly curious and cheerful, she has an interesting collection of links and commentary...
http://www.dynagirl.com/blog.shtml
APROPOS OF NOTHING
matt sends
"it's a toaster that accesses the net to get a weather report then toasts the weather symbols into your daily bread!!!!"
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~dt97rrs/dev_viva.html
an interesting interview with director of Memento
http://freshair.npr.org/dayFA.cfm?display=day&todayDate=03%2F29%2F2001
mark points to this. many f9lks have told me it's hte scariest book they've ever read.
http://www.houseofleaves.co.uk/
haughy points at this. it's wonderful
http://www.brushstroke.tv/jasmine.html
ev points at this:
"Just a few years ago, American condom manufacturers were trying to sell condoms like parachutes: You wouldn't jump out of a plane without one, would you? (Trojan print ad, circa 1996) Only recently have condom manufacturers begun to realize a key fact that had been previously overlooked: Condoms are about sex and sex is supposed to feel good..."
http://www.condomania.com/
I spent a half hour yesterday just reading about people's hobbies when they were kids. Thanks kottke...
http://www.kottke.org/notes/0104.html#010417
Ever wonder how to make a Big mac at home? or a Taco Bell Mexican Pizza?
http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipes.htm
geek code.
http://www.geekcode.com/.codes/geek3.1.html
posted by Christina Wodtke 4/23/2001 08:01:05 AM
From: Gleanings
To: miniyou
Subject: Gleanigns: snack sized glean
OPENING THANG
The Carbon IQ crew has started a group blog. On it find Noel's rant on customer service, my adventure setting up greymatter and Noel teasing me. And Gabe's beautiful design.
http://www.carboniq.com/log
USABILITY MATTERS
I haven't been here for quite a while, and dang it's great! Worth it for the glossary alone.
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/
Kayla Block posts her ideas on evangelizing user interface throughout a organization
http://interfacing.blogspot.com
DESIGN MATTERS
Lovely portfolio and personal site.
http://sabine.cc/frames.html
TECH MATTERS
mattjones sends this
"Writing code, he explains, is like writing poetry: every word, each placement counts. Except that software is harder, because digital poems can have millions of lines which are all somehow interconnected. Try fixing programming errors, known as bugs, and you often introduce new ones. So far, he laments, nobody has found a silver bullet to kill the beast of complexity"
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=568249&CFID=1765964&CFTOKEN=83880030
APROPOS OF NOTHING
from Kottke.org
"Ok, this is the best thing ever! Ever! All those other times that I told you about the best thing ever? I was lying! Go see Extreme Stick Death #3 right now. Now! Turn up the sound! (Note: I've had *way* too much sugar this morning....) "
http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight3.htm
I forgot to say, go see memento. amazing movie. form supports the story, enhances, disorients...
http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/arts/movies--030.html
posted by Christina Wodtke 4/19/2001 12:47:27 PM
From: Gleanings
To: Filters
Subject: Gleanings: all the news that I think is fit to print
OPENING THANG
Welcome to Wednesday. How did it get to be Wednesday already? Seems like just yesterday it was Tuesday. Well, I missed yesterday and I may miss tomorrow, but I've got a massive one for you today. Enjoy.
~~~
from the blog...
nadav http://giantant.com/antenna/ points at http://www.epinions.com/user-review-6F8A-7479A90-39FFAA96-prod1 which is interesting to me both as a history of a company's evolution, but also as a consequence of what happens on a site where you let your customers review products: at some point the product they review will be you.
It also makes me realize that I'm getting most of my news through a human filter (except, of course the holy two hours on Sunday morning with the newspaper and iht) and I'm happy about it. I've long doubted the existence of "journalist objectivity" and by receiving all my news through blogs and the like, every single piece of news is so very clearly slanted, I feel free-- no, obligated-- to form my own opinions on the matter. I question what I see, think, search... the "untrustworthy narrator" makes reading an interactive rather than a passive activity. feel free to disagree. http://www.eleganthack.com/blog/archives/00000018.html#comments
a short note on the exception: I have loved the International Herald Tribune for years, and have always wished I could get it in America (I buy it when I'm traveling). Their website is all the things the paper is: succinct news with a world view presented elegantly.
http://www.iht.com/frontpage.html
IA & DESIGN MATTERS
Critical thinking in design
"At the heart of design and engineering is critical thinking. The ability to separate what is worthwhile from what isn't is the hallmark of the best in many fields, from film directors to project managers, programmers to designers... "
http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue14.htm
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two of my favorite people, critiquing one of my favorite subjects: banking sites
Internet World: Deconstructing Citibank.com. (tomalak.org)
"Louis Rosenfeld and John Shiple. Lots has changed since the web exploded, but
one of the few remaining constants is that large, multifactional organizations
will play out their political tensions on their most visible and valuable real
estate, the main page."
http://www.internetworld.com/041501/04.15.01decon.jsp
~~~
Visual Arts Trends (xblog.com)
http://www.VisualArtsTrends.com/
"Visual Arts Trends is a quarterly 'state of the industry' report for the creative professional. With offices in New York, USA, and London, UK, Visual Arts Trends is an international publication focusing on graphic design, advertising art direction, photography and illustration. Each quarterly report offers a brief, business-oriented, definitive and timely overview of industry developments that affect aesthetics, pricing, salaries, working conditions and client relations."
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Usor: a collection of user oriented methods (giantant.com/antenna/)
"This web site contains descriptions of different user oriented methods. These descriptions are not meant to be exhaustive descriptions that you could use right after you have visited this web site. They are rather short summaries with references to more thorough descriptions of these methods."
http://www.nada.kth.se/cid/usor/
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Web Design Workflow
( Acrobat 3.0--523K)
"Web sites are becoming increasingly complex and multi-layered. Kelly Goto helps you set up a plan for concepting and storyboarding the structure of your site."
http://www.thunderlizard.com/tlp_pdfs/wd_workflow.pdf
NEWS & COMMENTARY
What is Tesco.com doing so right that Kozmo did so wrong?
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/analysis/weekly_editorial.html
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Disappearing Act
"Online advertising is already hurting. Now software that zaps Web ads is about to go mainstream."
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,23640,00.html
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IntelliQuest: Sixty percent of women click on banners
The results of a surprising new survey show that 60 percent of female
users of the MSN website click on banner ads.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356651&rel=true
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E-Tax Filings Miss the Mark
The latest stats show that more Americans filed their taxes online than ever before - just not quite as many as the IRS expected.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,23746,00.html?nl=mg
~~~
University Raided in MP3 Copyright Action
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18290.html
"A multinational recording-industry front group called the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has filed suit with the Tainan District Prosecutor's Office against fourteen students at Taiwan's National Chengkung University, accusing them of illegally copying and trading MP3 music files, the Taipei Times reports. "
Yahoo to Charge for Reading E-Mail
"Yahoo! Inc., looking for ways to cash in on the popularity of its Web site, will start charging for its service that reads e-mail messages over the phone."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Yahoo-Fees.html
(Registration required.)
~~~
DaveNet: The Web is a Writing Environment. (tomalak.org)
"The Web is at the intersection of publishing and the telephone. How many brands of phone conversation are there? Can you call Sandy to talk with Allison?"
http://davenet.userland.com/2001/04/17/theWebIsAWritingEnvironment
~~~
Comparison shopping websites are set for a shakeout, according to
Forrester. Sites that aggregate online retailer listings and products,
and hand consumers passively over to retailers, will suffer badly
while those that survive will evolve into ecommerce brokers.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356645&rel=true
~~~
Battle for the Unseen Computer
"Windows won the war for the desktop. But there's a new struggle over operating systems embedded in everyday objects, and this time free software has the inside track."
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/may01/tristram.asp
APROPOS OF NOTHING
MetroActive Features Taxi Tales
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sfmetro/03.98/taxis1-98-3.html
~~~
in the category of "I found it before, and look, I've found it again"
the bullshit generator
http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
posted by Christina Wodtke 4/18/2001 10:32:57 AM
From: Gleanings
To: Monday Robots
Subject: Gleanings: you will think what I tell you to think
OPENING THANG
Welcome to Monday. Republic.com is the book everyone is talking about. Supposedly in it (I'll cheerfully admit I haven't read it and feel no urgency to do so), the author speculates that new technologies will allow us to become ignorant about the world around us and more intolerant, because we'll be able to filter out the news we don't want. Has he ever seen a family read the newspaper? In the most archetypical scenario, mom takes the food section, dad takes sports, brother takes classified, sis take fashion and little one reads comics. In a real scenario a similar but perhaps less gender driven scenario takes place: people read the sections that interest them. Ever watch someone couch surf across the TV channels? Filters happen.
Instead the author should be grateful that email allows people to forward news articles to each other, suddenly allows a human filter to push through current events the way a newsbreak interrupts a rerun of friends.
Of course gleanings is very much a "daily me:" a human filter for your news.
Law Professor Sees Hazard in Personalized News
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/13/technology/13CYBERLAW.html
BLOG OF THE DAY
I've been really enjoying Nadav's "antenna" lately. from April 15th:
"My first reaction on seeing this navigation map of computer ethics was "feh! Why do people insist on mapping ideas onto a physical geography," but then I spent a minute with it and realized that, unlike antarctica, where there's no meaning to the geographical distribution of the data, the organization was meaningful. While both Encryption and Spamming are within the borders of Privacy, the former is near Intellectual Property, while the latter is at the juncture of Computer Abuse and Commerce. "
http://www.giantant.com/antenna/
DESIGN & IA MATTERS
The Myth of 800x600
"Developing fixed-size Web pages is a fundamentally flawed practice. Not only does it result in Web pages that remain at a constant size regardless of the user's browser size, but it fails to take advantage of the medium's flexibility. " Amen brother.
http://webreview.com/2001/03_16/webauthors/index01.shtml
Visual Architecture: The Rule of Three
"Visual architecture is applied to the new media design context and defined as the use of a particular method of building visual information and balancing communication between images and words." Funny, where I grew up this was called design. In any case, this is an excellent article-- especially for nondesingers-- on effective layout.
http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2001-4.shtml
also in digtalweb
Designing for Search Engines and Stars
"Great search engine placement doesn't require you to sacrifice appealing design. While "content is king" for high search engine rankings as well as overall site popularity, your imagination and creativity with designs can still reach for the stars."
http://www.digital-web.com/tutorials/
Web typography: the rookie mistakes
"Novice designers, writers, editors, and publishers who come to the medium with no background in web publishing tend to make simple mistakes that can turn an otherwise utilitarian website into a visual junk store. Their websites, consequently, are hard to look at, hard to read, and hard to navigate. "
http://www.nua.com/nkb/index.cgi?f=VA&art_type=STYLE&art_id=618
Another decadent eyecandy design studio site. and why not.
http://www.malex.it/
USABILITY MATTERS
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for April 15
"According to a recent critical incident analysis, users' most important
Web tasks involve collecting and comparing multiple pieces of information,
usually so they can make a choice."
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010415.html
Audience interviews from the final leg of the User Experience World Tour:
Is the Slowing Economy Helping or Hurting Usability?
http://www.nngroup.com/worldtour/cit_se.html
Users Aren't Happy in Captivity
"Marketing columnist Blake Rohrbacher debunks the myth of stickiness. "
http://www.business2.com/content/channels/marketing/2001/04/12/29907
NEWS & COMMENTARY
More Net firms in profit than might be expected
"ActivMedia Research reports that 61 percent of mid-sized online businesses and 39 percent of large online firms are profitable. "
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905356657&rel=true
IPO Disasters Give Underwriters Reason to Blush
"Dot-com-pushing analysts have long taken the brunt of criticism for over-hyping the market, but what about the investment bankers who took those companies public? Did they know they were selling damaged goods with no refund policy? "
http://www.iht.com/articles/16977.html
A Computer Mouse Without the Trap
"Build a better mouse, and the world will beat a path to your door. At least that is what Johan Ullman, a Swedish medical doctor and ergonomics expert, is hoping. Dr. Ullman invented the pen mouse, which resembles a pen stuck into a small mouse or, viewed differently, an automobile stick shift in a gear box. "
http://www.iht.com/technology.html
The glory days of e-commerce are over
"Broke and stingy e-tailers have taken all the fun out of online shopping."
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/29/ecommerce/index.html
APROPOS OF NOTHING
Joey Ramone dead at 49 (biggerhand.com)
"Singer Joey Ramone, the punk rock icon whose signature yelp melded with the Ramones' three-chord thrash to launch an explosion of bands like the Clash and the Sex Pistols, died Sunday. He was 49. "
http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2001/04/15/ramone/index.html
Suicide In The Netherlands Could Come In Easy-To-Swallow Pill Form
http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/15/1846236&from=rdf
How many products can you spot in the JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS trailer? (evhead.com)
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=8503
In future anyone can be my DJ. or at least dack can.
http://www.dack.com/music/show/2001-04-12.html
I regret clicking this link, yet I share it with you anyhow. (camworld.com)
http://www.gpl.com.au/temp/EasterXcld.jpg
adn this one, for different reasons
http://www.crackerfactory.org/crouching_robot_hidden_kitten.jpg
posted by Christina Wodtke 4/16/2001 08:04:05 AM
From: Gleanings
To: Hungery Hungry Clickers
Subject: Gleanings: A Picnic Basket Full of Links
OPENING THANG
Lance Arthur inspires us all-- "Take Five" looks back at five years of a personal website.
http://www.glassdog.com
Meanwhile on the blog I've been puzzling over the roles of Information Architects, and their relationship with usability and the rest of the team
http://eleganthack.com/blog/index.html
Have a nice weekend: I've packed you a nice big gleanings to keep you busy in case it rains.
IA & DESIGN MATTERS
nadav drove down to baychi (and i got to ride along!) and we saw a terrific talk on modeling user experience. I haven't gotten my act together to get my notes up, but he has
http://www.giantant.com/antenna/archive/2001_04_08_index.shtml#3161262
I now worship meta. their schematics belong in MOMA.
http://www.metadesign.com/main.htm
~~~
In other news I was nosing around acia as I am wont to do and looked at this for the third time
Software for Information Architects
http://argus-acia.com/strange_connections/strange011.html
Why is there no decent software for ia's to make their cute little sitemaps and wireframes?
~~~
kottke's collecting transit maps. amazing how many different ways there are to represent what is essentially the same data.
http://www.kottke.org/notes/0104.html#010409
found Information Graphics lying around IQHQ and dragged it home. nifty stuff, almost as lovely as Wurman's Information Architects. Lots of sign systems, graphs, infographics, transit maps and the like.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500280770/eleganthack
~~~
Ethnographic-perspective paper on the internet as cultural space.
http://skylla.wz-berlin.de/pdf/2000/ii00-101.pdf
~~~
the FAQ on FAQ's
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/faqs/about-faqs/
~~~
Measuring mental workload
"Mental workload has been defined as the "degree of processing capacity that is expended during task performance" "
http://chem.larc.nasa.gov/HumanFactors/mworkload.htm
~~~
how to make a button
http://www.logiko.com/references/button.html
~~~
Noah grey interview on waferbaby
http://www.waferbaby.com/corner/noahgrey/
USABILITY MATTERS
Business 2.0: Intranets Save Time- But for Whom? (tomalak.org)
Jakob Nielsen. "Thinking about the intranet as a productivity tool can prevent
such mishaps. For every service or application you put on the intranet,
estimate the impact on users around the company. If usability is low, then
training time goes up and productivity goes down."
http://www.business2.com/content/magazine/ebusiness/2001/04/09/29409
~~~
Interstitials in the balance
Are improving clickthrough rates and a higher selling price worth the annoyance that pop-up ads cause site visitors?
http://www.publish.com/ic_490520_6414_1-2841_1320_12.html
BUSINESS MATTERS
Boo! And the 100 Other Dumbest Moments in e-Business History
http://www.ecompany.com/edit/0,2088,11274,00.html
NEWS & COMMENTARY
Tech Industry Aims to Render MP3 Obsolete
"The industry doesn't want [MP3] pushed, and Microsoft and RealNetworks don't want it pushed. The consumer is going to eat what he's given,"
http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyWSJ/wsj2-dow.html
~~~
NY Times: Humor Is at Center of Microsoft's New Campaign. (tomalak.org)
Although the campaign is likely to be greeted warmly by many white- collar
office workers who have long grumbled about the paper clip, it has worried at
least one Microsoft researcher who is most closely credited with being the
father of the technology underlying the paper clip.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/11/technology/11ADCO.html
~~~
Amazon, Borders to Join Forces In Online Book-Selling Business
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB986946353234468786.htm
~~~
Napster's Sad Song Falls on Deaf Ears
By Ronna Abramson
Judge Patel says the music-swapping service may need to be shut down
if the company cannot successfully block unauthorized songs.
http://tm0.com/thestandard/sbct.cgi?s=126041531&i=328309&d=1306497
~~~
Germany plots cyber attacks on neo-Nazi sites
By IDG News Service
The German Interior minister contemplates the use of spam to fight
extremists
http://tm0.com/sbct.cgi?s=126041608&i=328262&d=1305962
APROPOS OF NOTHING
How It Works: Detectors Can Find Just the Right Spot to Drive That Nail (iaslash.org)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/12/technology/12HOWW.html?0412ci
~~~
figlet server (giantant.com/antenna/)
http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/
~~~
it's so fun, i don't even care what they do
http://www.filmarts.org/festival/festival00/
~~~
noel and mattjones sent me this, so it's gotta be cool
from: http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=8659
"Apparently, if you look at the second frame of credits on the new A.I. teaser trailer, there is a credit given to Jeanine Salla, Sentient Machine Therapist," Mooncookie explains. "If you enter her name into a Google.com search, you get http://www.familiasalla-es.ro/. Exploring this site will send you on a sprawling search for clues and other sites that are somehow related to the movie. It seems as if there are some 20+ websites that are connected with this guerilla-marketing geek's wet dream, a la the X-Men stunts last summer. After poking around for about five minutes, I was blown away by the man-hours put in to all this -- and the persistence of the geeks uncovering all this stuff -- but it seems everyone likes a good intrigue." As some Plastic wit once remarked, the real amazing thing is how the film industry will pay millions of bucks to lawyers to chase down and exterminate actual fan sites while simultaneously paying millions to developers to build fake fan sites. Only on the web, folks, only on the web!
~~~
why are mondays?
http://www.glassdog.com/the_lab/index.html
~~~
How much silly putty do you need? (rebeccablood.net)
http://www.crayola.com/store/showdetl.cfm?st=0&st2=0&st3=0&Product_ID=236&DS_ID=3
posted by Christina Wodtke 4/13/2001 08:11:10 AM
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