June 2000

wowzaa! There’s a new and improved photo.net. I think in general they did a pretty good job of keeping it light weight. I’m not convinced of the usefullness of the portal-like use of modules on the home page; whereas they usually signify aggregated content this use seems to merely group stuff. The comments section on…

I just noticed this blog is eighth on the directory of Blogger blogs, which must have hundreds of blogs by now. I feel so early adopterish.

I’m finding a need to add to the To:, cc:, and bcc: fields in email. Say I’d like to send an email to a bunch of people in my office and I want them to know who was on the distribution list (to: or cc:) yet I don’t want the replies to go the whole…

Jen discovered all these sites on “Communities of Practice.” We’re working with a client now who uses the term so much I thought it was simply their own laborious word for “departments.”

Terry Swack, design guru, weighs in on the term “user experience” with oh-so-much badly needed wisdom… “I think all of us in this profession are guilty of using the term ‘user experience’ much too freely, which is why we have a difficult time talking about it amongst ourselves and to our clients. I would like…

Jackpot! I found this article, Author Offers Theory on Gray Matter of Love, in the New York Times last week. When I tried to think about what people “fundamentally want in life” back on May 28th (food, health, shelter, safety, security, sex), I couldn’t figure out where cultural pursuits fit in. Culture (music, visual arts,…

After reading Usability Is Like Love, I’m glad to see Joe Clark and friends at content.nu have launched a blog, nublog.