My Twittering (2009-06-07)
- There are things I just cannot do on my blog without Camtasia: narration + music bed, and zooming and panning across the image. #
- Mass #media adds #usability to government: interactive European Parliament elections map http://bit.ly/eJSVl #fb (Thx @demsoc) #
- UPA provides mini-certification for its conference attendees (“Passport To Success”). Details in this pdf: http://bit.ly/WyymG #
- In contrast, there’s also “maxi-certification” through the Certified Usability Practitioner (CUA )program. Details: http://bit.ly/9wruk #
- I love that Akismet catches all the spam comments posted on my WordPress site, so I can give readers a better experience at FiveSketches.com #
- #Whole Foods’ localisation is off: in Canada it’s called “pop” & “softdrink” (not “soda”), and real Cdn stores do this: http://bit.ly/fnrp2 #
- No privacy: Imagine your Internet service provider watching your online activity and selling “best time to reach me” info to others. #
- A friend just said: “The software is not supposed to have issues, yet it does.” #
- Cool use of progressive disclosure technique. Obama’s Cairo speech + BBC analysis in “one” text flow: http://htxt.it/v1Ug #
- Also in the BBC’s multi-modal text coverage of Obama’s Cairo speech: a cloud of the words in Obama’s speech. http://htxt.it/v1Ug Yay media! #
- Error foregiveness = Usability. RT @pkyo: typed “nwewslette” in #Bing. Nothing. Switch to #Google. “Did you mean newsletter?” Why yes. #
- How our news sources have changed, shown as a graph: http://bit.ly/mkcoV. The whole article: http://bit.ly/lVbbL #

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