Category: User Experience

  • Two Links from the Virtual Chase

    From explodedlibrarian.info (via Research News: The Virtual Chase) come two good blog-related links: On the Net’s The Blog Realm about blogs as a source of information for librarians, and as a content-management solution.(Basic stuff for any experienced blogger but good introa and a reminder that this stuff still requires explaining on a daily basis.) SearchEngineBlog,…

  • Your Resume as a Blog

    Krzysztof Kowalczyk (I love his motto: “Blog or you’ll be blogged.”) suggests that a focused, balanced blog (or k-log, or blog category, or RSS feed, etc.) could be used as a dynamic resume, one that will be much more impressive in retrospect than a dry recitation of skills in a tradition flat resume: Keep a…

  • 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…