Category: User Experience

  • Left-Brain Blogging

    The Raven talks about the impression he gets from a long blogroll: I don’t know about you, but when I visit a blog that has 395 navigation links running down the side I get a funny feeling. Is this clown trying to tell me, “Look at all my friends!” Or am I supposed to check…

  • Jeremy Zawodny Dreams of the Perfect RSS Aggregator

    He may be giving Radio’s aggregator short shrift, but Jeremy has done a good job of breaking down several approaches to RSS aggregation and providing his own wishlist: I’m on a quest to find the perfect RSS aggregator…. I’m thinking of a server-based process that can gather all the data and give it to me…

  • Log Everything

    I’m starting to wonder if there’s anything I shouldn’t be logging. So much of my personal knowledge management problems (read: disorganization) involve forgetting, losing track of, and worrying about issues as they come up an afterward until they are resolved. Sure, some things are private or proprietary. Not every log (blog, k-log, or any kind…

  • The Web Credibility Project: Guidelines – Stanford University

    Reading Spartaneity drew my attention back to Stanford’sWeb Credibility Project where you can read detailed explanations of and research behind these guidelines: Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. Show that there’s a real organization behind your site. Showing that your web site is for a legitimate organization will…

  • Tweney Understanding Weblogs

    Dylan Tweney has summarized some of the recent thinking on weblogs (overlapping with many of the recent links posted here) in an article in which he also discusses realizing the personal knowledge-management benefits of keeping a weblog: In other words, I realized that a weblog could be a useful tool for personal knowledge management as…

  • 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…

  • Policies for Employee Blogs

    (Via A Blog Doesn’t Need a Clever Name [via Scripting News]) Ray Ozzie is working through some of the legal issues surrounding employee weblogs at Groove networks.

  • How Does a K-Log Work for Notification?

    Curiouser and curiouser! has pulled together a variety of sources on the topic of using k-logs to avoid choking project managers’ email queues: Reuters:  Managers drowning in e-mail. A huge volume of business e-mails is generated from workers reporting progress to project managers, Nickerson said. <<<  There is an answer to this:  post it to…

  • Automated Aggregation!

    Ask and ye shall receive. Now I have to admit my failure of reading comprehension, as I did not grok from Dave’s explanation a week ago that the Multi-Author Weblog tool has exactly the feature I wished for in my previous entry. Mark Paschal, ever helpful, commented thusly: Autoposting from feeds is what the Multi-Author…

  • Automated Aggregation?

    In the interests of offering one-stop shopping, I figure I should cross-post here pretty much anything I blog anywhere else (as always, by category). Frankly, though, it’s tedious to cut-and-paste or even post through the aggregator (plus my LiveJournal’s RSS feed is headlines-only). I wonder if it might be possible to write a script to…

  • Using Blog Software as a CMS

    Brad Choate point to the technical colophon of a site called A Touch of Hope, for a description of how to use blogging software (in this case Movable Type) as a full-service backend CMS for multiple users… with a little tweaking.

  • Radiospecific: How I Solved My Category Problem

    I was having a hell of a time getting design changes to propagate out to my categories. It turned out that in the early days of this blog when I Was experimenting with many of the canned themes and giving each category its own design, these choices decoupled the categories from the home page in…

  • Knowledge Management Weblog Entry Aggregator (Using Trackback Pings)

    (Via blogroot/blogpopuli.blog) KMpings is a collection of Knowledge Management TrackBack pings. The site offers instructions on how to ping it with or without Movable Type. This should be a good one-stop shopping info source regarding knowledge management.

  • New CMS Book from glasshaus

    A Frog in the Valley (a French weblog) links to a post about a new glasshaus book on content management systems: Book Excerpt: Content Management Systems The case in favor of Content Management is argued in this excerpt from the glasshaus title, “Content Management Systems.” Included are discussions defining what CMS is, why it is…

  • Business 2.0 says 'Accountability Is Always in Style'

    In Business 2.0, Rafe Needleman writes about a “dashboard” product to help VCs monitor the status of their investments: Dotcom flameout notwithstanding, the need for this product is greater than ever. Venture firms still have billions of dollars invested in technology startups, and there are a lot of people worrying about that money. The startup…

  • Caveat Lector: XHTML2

    Caveat Lector posts some preliminary musings about XHTML2. The old typographer in me is most thrilled by the concept of continued paragraphs. Believe me, it’s almost as exciting as discovering a working em-dash character.