Day: January 30, 2004
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Third Phase, Nisenholtz style
Martin Nisenholtz’s keynote at the SIIA conference three days ago comes to me via E-Media Tidbits, the Poynter group blog. Rich Gordon also pointed to Larry Pryor’s 2002 article describing the ‘third wave’, with credit to Vin Crosbie (whose big promise comes due shortly). Nisenholtz is the CEO of NYTimes Digital, which publishes, most prominently,…
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Stop speculating
Fascinating Michael Crichton speech from April 2002 on why speculation is so futile — and the media has fallen farther and farther because of their willingness to indulge in this (yes) idle speculation. Even though the speculation is correct only by chance, which means you are wrong at least 50% of the time, nobody remembers…
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U.S. government does usability
I haven’t read the usability guidelines (128 page PDF linked from this page), but of all the things my tax dollars could go to, this isn’t the worst.