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Is no one else listening?
At work, I replied to the half-dozen readers who wrote in to complain about a large advertisement on our site. (Turns out that our use of cookies to limit its frequency meant that the audience most likely to be annoyed was also the audience most likely to see the ad more than intended. But that’s…
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Still struggling with Radio, but…
…there is hope. Lawrence Lee is helping out, and everything except the home page the RSS feed (which is all anyone reads, honestly) is up to date. So I’m close. I also realize that I don’t have the time/energy to switch this blog to a new CMS anytime soon. I’ll try and update the template,…
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1GB is for real
OK, GMail is for real, not a joke. 1GB. Google realized email has much higher switching costs, so they are going to disrupt Hotmail and Yahoo… or at least force their costs up.
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Feedburner’s Mobile Feed Reader
I know lots of folks with one of the new Treos… I’ll see if they want to try Mobile Feed Reader from Feedburner. Good luck, Dick, Eric, Steve, and Matt.
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Invisible Sun
The Police. Invisible Sun. Great tune, from a fantastic album. I even took the rare step of rating the song in iTunes.
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Avoid passive voice
All the usual suspects warn against the passive voice. Paul Ford does something about it, with the Passivator, a bookmarklet which highlights some obvious uses of the passive voice on a page. While part of my purpose here is to improve my writing, I doubt I’ll spend the time to play with this more than…
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Everyone has to read Shirky
And everyone does. His latest: “Situated Software,” from which, a quote: Expectations of longevity, though, are the temporal version of scale — we assume applications should work for long periods in part because it costs so much to create them. Once it’s cheap and easy to throw together an application, though, that rationale weakens. Businesses…
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25 days at a time
Struggline with getting Radio to post my home page for the last week or so. But it is upstreaming the archive, 25 files at a time, every time I publish a new item. Maybe that’s a month per post, which means I need 6 more posts to get to the current day?
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GMail… incredible service or incredible April Fool’s joke?
Google announces GMail via this press release dated April 1. Webmail with 1GB of free storage, plus great search (as you would expect). So… is it real? I’m asking because Simon Willison’s post ranges from excitement about the idea of the service, but then points out that Google has a sense of humor about these…
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Mr. Ed
Jared Spool has a new article at User Interface Engineering, “The Top 3 Priorities of the Talking Horse. It could be that your site (or part of your site) is a talking horse. Is everyone focusing on just “making it work”? There is the partial jab at Jakob Nielsen’s discount usability (although Jakob never uses…
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