Category: User Experience

  • Small Business Blogging

    Rereading Bricklin’s Aug 12 article on small business blogging, I realized that his first example is a pretty close fit for the intangibles I get from doing this blog: One type of small business is the “consultant”. This covers a wide range of areas, from engineers, to marketers, to event planners, to freelance writers and…

  • Business 2.0 Article on Corporate Blogging

    Swimming upstream via my referrer log I landed at

  • Deep Roots of Hypertext Journaling

    Believe it or not, I’m still sorting out what I’ve learned about Traction Software, sifting and trying to digest what I’ve learned. Traction was heavily influenced by Doug Engelbart and his ideas about

  • Mining Udell on Radio and the Two-Way Web

    I should have known I’d get sucked in. I remember reading Jon’s columns as he continually documented what he was learning about web servers, content managemenet, database-backed websites, and so on. From the link mentioned in my previous entry I’ve now read Udell’s review of Radio 8 and a three-part article on the writeable web,…

  • Personal RSS Aggregators

    John Udell wrote a good overview of RSS Aggregators in a May 27 column in Byte, the seminal, now-online-only computer magazine (the only such magazine I ever paid to subscribe to): No single person will be completely authoritative in any one area, but that won’t matter … in fact, it’s better that way. In the…

  • Will the Blogosphere Have Scaling Pains?

    A kuro5hin post I noticed in my aggregator (The future of blog: The scaling barrier) brings up an interesting point: will blogs scale? Blogs have a scaling problem. Kinda like clubs. The good crowd moves in and they become these perfect little places for some time. And then too many people start coming in, and…