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Wednesday, June 30, 1999 I'm testing a new "liquid HTML" design. let me know if you have any weird rendering problems with your browser/platform combo. Does anyone else find it ironic that the entire first page of IBM's "Ease of Use" web site is made up of nothing but graphics? This guy makes sense. The Arbitron Internet Listening Study: Radio and Ecommerce.(430Kb PDF) [Fascinating, since I took a broadcast sales class in college that opened my eyes to the world of radio advertising.] Monday, June 28, 1999 Sporadic updates for a few days as I wrap up some loose ends in both my personal and professional lives. Michigan is the "geekiest" state? Of note is that Jeff Veen of Webmonkey fame went to school in Michigan, and philosophe.com, a great site about web site usability is also in Michigan. And Argus Associates. As is Alex's Restaurant and MacUpdate. Are you in San Francisco? Then, give this guy a place to live! Altavista has redesigned and added a whole bunch of nifty new tools including better natural-langauge searching. camlist.com redirects to a porn site. Hmmmm.... Sunday, June 27, 1999 From Sabren comes How to Build a Flying Saucer After So Many Amateurs Have Failed. Fun with MLM spammers. [Hilarious!] Saturday, June 26, 1999 A note from a little girl to a captain. [Yes, it's obviously fake] Friday, June 25, 1999 Whee! I was digging through my hundreds of old floppy disks (remember when those were the primary means of data storage) and I found the first web site I ever built [dated May 18, 1994]. Wow, this is a trip. Look at that awful design and all those mistakes, too. Heh. CamWorld: Fiction From a Young Age. These great little stories come from an old grade school journal I found while cleaning my apartment earlier this year. I hope they offer you some insight into what kind of a kid I was in the fourth grade. I smell a lawsuit. kimble.org, Special Agent Kimble... Stewart Alsop on Windows [again]. Here is a series of emails from the Studio B mailing list outlining various wishlists from book authors and book industry professionals for Associates/Affilaites Programs. Glassdog: Automatic Domain Name Generator. Thursday, June 24, 1999 I did two things last night. First, I watched the movie American History X from start to finish without any breaks. It is truly an amazing movie, despite the hype around it. And secondly I started reading "The Nudist on the Late Shift" by Po Bronson. I can tell already that this will be a must-read for anyone working in the new media industry or Silicon Valley. DaveNet: Syndication and Aggregation. Yes, Dave mentions CamWorld. Uh yeah, I'll take a dozen donuts and one web site design, please. This reminds me of the time I met the pizza delivery guy who was designing web sites on the side. Sigh... Wednesday, June 23, 1999 MemeSpace looks like it might be an interesting project. The HCI Bibliography: Human-Computer Interaction Publications and Resources. Tuesday, June 22, 1999 Dave Winer has created something like a SuperWebLog at UserLand. Almost too overwhelming. A List Apart: Netscape Bites the Bullet [on DOM] A List Apart: The Illusion of Speed Netscape: Deploying Metadata Representations of Web Content. I've linked to this before, but it's such a great article it deserves more readership: Why Windows Pages Have Tiny Text. The IBM 2020 Neural Implant Chip. The porn banners on this page seriously undermine the potential legitimacy of such a memo, eh? DOE: Human Radiation Experiments. Little girl, don't eat the stuffed sock monkeys.... Absolutely correct prediction of the future of Amazon. Monday, June 21, 1999 Here's how busy I am. CamWorld turned two back on June 11, and I didn't remember until today. Newslog: Commentators.com. I like what Everett is doing here, but would like to see a better table layout that gives each commentator their own row of information. Much better for readability and quick scanning. Oh, and lose the frames. ZDNN: Salon's IPO? Is there a character trait for curiosity? Banner Blindness: Web Searchers Often Miss "Obvious" Links. Is this spam? Moof the hacker. [Fascinating.] Seattle Times: Why can't Web ads match the cleverness of TV ads for the Web? I suppose my biggest problem with tech stocks and day traders is that it all appears to be a huge get-rich-quick scheme that has (so far) worked. Of course, some IPO's are backfiring, like BarnesandNoble.com and [likely] the upcoming Salon IPO. Ooh, I can think of all sorts of ways to abuse this service. An interesting report from Xerox PARC says that the top 5% of web sites control nearly 75% of all web traffic. While I commend the work done by these researchers, I wonder how accurate this may be. I tend to see the web as a bunch of hyperlinked clusters. Web sites that fail to link outside their own site are fighting the natural tendency of the hyperlink. Weblogs, newslogs, and other regularly-updated information-heavy sites with numerous links to other places on the web are encouraging the idea of distributing information, the very foundation of hypertext and why it was created. Wow, there are a lot of web design firms in San Francisco. Too many? Fasconating discussion about the use of metaphors in design on the CHI-WEB list. I'll bet it stunk to high heaven. Stephen King struck by car. Hmmm, I wonder if there'll be a book idea from this incident. Wednesday, June 16, 1999 Wired Magazine Headline Generator. Flash 4.0 ships. Ding dong, Divx is dead. Long live DVD. Tuesday, June 15, 1999 Web Comic: Roomies The crazy people are abusing USENET again. Um, you too can learn how to tattoo. What is Universal Picture Language? Don't forget to watch "Pirates of Silicon Valley" on TNT this Sunday. Screw jetskis. This looks like much more fun. Next stop, wonderland. Monday, June 14, 1999 UseIt: Disabled Accessibility: The Pragmatic Approach. This is what Jakob talked about in a panel at HFWeb99. Philosophe: Assumptions About User Search Behavior. You should also check out the rest of Derek's site. Lots of great essays on quality assurance, usabilty and web site testing. Meet JPEG, the dog. In an email last week to Jeffrey Veen, I wrote:
Jessica Jernigan, Book Editor at Borders.com has written a wonderful essay on makeup. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Abridged Script. The popular Man Bites Dog web site has ceased publication. Three years of archives remain for your perusal. Friday, June 11, 1999 The Web is Winning the Talent War. Is that why I get recruiters calling me at work? Geez, how utterly bold. Linguistics and jargon of a Star Trek theme. [Hmmm....] Strange Foreign Objects in Dog Feces, True Stories. [Gross!] Thursday, June 10, 1999 Offensive t-shirts and other somewhat lame stuff for sale. Shit. Damn! Oops, pardon my French. Man Driven By Unknown Force to Change History for Better. [Heh!] Another article in Salon about weblogs. This one features Jim Romanesko's Obscure Store. Simulating the Back Button, a good look at how the Netscape history file works. Also read this recent paper called "Getting Back to Back: Alternative Behaviors for a Web Browser's Back Button." Wednesday, June 9, 1999 HotWired Han Solo Design Contest, an old feature from those wacky folks at HotWired. Not sure why anyone would want one of these. Yeah right, I'll believe it when I see it. HTML compatibility across browsers/platforms:
Tuesday, June 8, 1999 A cool $5 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Usama Bin Laden, recently added to the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted List. Moo. Slurp. The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English. Research Challenge #1: Where can I buy a "Hosie Cow" that David Letterman showed last night. It's a plastic lawn sprinkler shaped like a cow that sprays water from it's tail. Hosie Cow (H20lyCow) Links: Research Challenge #2: I want to buy an stamping device that can be used to hand-stamp progressive numbers on numerous envelopes (e.g. envelope #1, envelope #2, envelope #3, etc.) Where can I get one? [Solved] Monday, June 7, 1999 I want a Star Trek Camaro. Great article on the history of Wired magazine. Read my related rant. I'm under the opinion now that I should continue my subscription, but pay less attention to what Wired is saying. Wired magazine may no longer be cool, but they still do a good job of reporting in the technology arena. Some ancient 'net history: Fire at the offices of HotWired. This is the actual Marmaduke cartoon that ran last Wednesday. No lie! [Thanks Aaron] Here's an old chat transcript with Jeffrey Veen, Senior Interface Designer at Wired Digital. [Some dated, but good material.] WebReview: (18 Sep. 1998) The Next Wave in Web Design. I'm turning up all kinds of great Jeffrrey Veen links today. Here's a great paper called "Teaching with technology for students with learning disabilities." Sun's Guide to Web Style: Links Editorial Considerations in Electronic Publishing. [Superb!] If you've got a couple of days to kill, feel free to read the archives of HotWired's now-defunct Packet which ran from January of 1996 to June of 1997. Lots of great history here, folks. Sunday, June 6, 1999 It's philosophy day here at CamWorld. Deconstructing the University. After Liberalism: What if Confucianism Becomes the Hegemonic Ethic of the Twenty-first Century? Book: Technology & Justice by George Parkin Grant. Essays include "Thinking About Technology," "The Language of Euthanasia," and "Abortion and Rights." Book: News is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century by Pete Hamill. [Excellent!] Excellent article on information design by Drue Miller, senior information designer at Vivid Studios. I want a TV Universal Remote/Bottle Opener. [Cool!] Saturday, June 5, 1999 What is XHTML 1.0? The famous Zagat Resturant Guides are now online. All of them. WPDFD: "A web site has to have a personality." Shit. AOL is getting as bad as Microsoft. It's quickly becoming a scenario where the consumer has to choose between two evils. I've recently been alerted to the existance of a whole bunch of weblog-type sites out there that are called Everything/Nothing pages. Like weblogs, E/N sites often link to each other. Digital Squirrel has created a comprehensive list of these sites, which have a heavy emphasis on journal-like entries, mixed with links. Jason Fagone has started a new weblog called Bring the Rock that focuses on the independent music scene. I'm glad that more and more people are starting to do weblog-type sites that specific to an industry or a niche market. The general interest weblog market is already saturated enough. DomainSurfer: Weblog Friday, June 4, 1999 Note: If you happen to be watching the TV show First Wave tonight on the Sci-Fi Channel (10 PM & 2 AM), the episode takes place in Kalkaska, MI, the very small rural town I went to high school in. Weird! If you haven't been in EduWatch in a while you should go. My brother's digging up some great educational technology links. Usability Professional's Association. [Not web-specific.] Wednesday, June 2, 1999 RLE writes about Macs within the workplace in the lastest issue of Fast Company. Tuesday, June 1, 1999 Sigh....some people will never learn. USPS: Delivery of Mail to a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency. [More: The CMRA FAQ] Dr. Stephen Barrett, M.D. (no relation) edits and maintains QuackWatch, "Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions." |
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