Year: 2003
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Too much typing
Watched 12 hours of user tests over the last two days, typing into my work blog the entire time… more than 40 pages of single-spaced transcripts/notes, on my laptop without the ergonomic keyboard. Ouch. But also used the opportunity to make my blog more of a public item at work, to positive response. Since a…
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How will my assumptions hold…
Bringing in real people today to look at some new ideas at work. This is labeled ‘user testing’ — but it really means ‘assumption testing.’ Various ideas and strongly-held beliefs make their way into concrete form (in this case, web pages) based on gut instinct, log files, and compromises between internal consistuents. Now we really…
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1,000 words
I’m not going to do it, but I can write 1,000 words a lot easier than I can find/draw/photograph a picture to tell the same story. I find it frustrating to work with people who are need visuals because I have a harder time explaining myself. But it’s not worth beating my head against the…
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How I benefit from the…
Tiny, tiny example. Yesterday I noted that I was trying ImageWell, which (I now know) I came across via John Robb’s blog. I had one odd crash later that day, after upgrading to MacOS X 10.2.5. I didn’t think much of it, nor connect the dots. But I later read Chris Gulker was also trying…
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ImageWell… I’ll try it out
Low on my list, but high on my family’s, is getting more pictures of the boy on his website. I’ve been letting it go for at least 6 months now. In part, this is due to iPhoto disrupting my old process, and me not pushing through to find a new way. I forget where I…
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Publish and forget
Via Jon Udell’s comment on overlapping scopes, I found and read Chris Anderson’s essay titled “What is a blog?”. I’m glad I did. This topic could be dismissed as more navel-gazing here (blogging about blogs, etc.). But I think this public distillation of the benefits and uses of this form of communication will help clarify…
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Blurring the lines
I’ve been up for over two hours already, and at least one hour of that was spent on a work project. Then I had breakfast with my son. Now I’m headed off to the office. The point? Where do I draw the line between work and home? It’s a wavy, thin line, to be sure.…
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Elaborate joke, or real? Either…
I received an email this morning inviting me to submit a video about my blog for possible inclusion in a television pilot about blogging. Quote: “We want to bring this phenomenon of personal expression to television for the very first time, and have been scouring the web for appropriate sites. Your web site seems like…
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Evangelist is the right job…
Scoble comments on how hard it is to get people to accept something new. He’s certainly on target, speaking from experience: his job title, often enough, has been evangelist (and he clearly thinks of himself as one, regardless of title). He mentions the Mac, digital cameras, and Tivo — I certainly am waiting on that…
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Phrase I’m sick of =…
It’s either a business or it’s not. F*** the model. Either you provide a service or product that you get paid for (in one form or another) or you don’t. Enough ranting… I do care about this area. I want to learn lessons from other businesses that I can apply to the business where I…