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My Twittering (2009-06-21)

JeromeR — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0000

If you missed the UPA 2009 conference, here’s a compilation of my micro-blogging: http://bit.ly/15muMY #
When it comes to sharing my PC desktop, I’m liking free #Mikogo for its features. Macworld UK likes the Mac version: http://bit.ly/LePdS #
Attempting to model the transitions in a wireframe by using Axure’s dynamic-panels feature. #

My Twittering (2009-06-14)

JeromeR — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0000

This week, my tweets will focus on the UPA conference, and my research into usability research. After that, normal broadcasting resumes. #
Made it to Portland for #upa2009. Had a nice dinner with a school friend from years ago. #
Users wiling to struggle with an unusable intranet if the info is useful. Kath Straub at #upa2009 #
Offices with background music degrade the performance of their staff. Staccato music is worse than meditative music. #upa2009 #
Blind experienced Internet users gesture to indicate spatial organization of information that is different from the visual org’n of a site. #
Add to the public data of US internet users: do the self-test at the Pew Internet Project site. Look on http://htxt.it/ffxk #upa2009 #
If you’re at #UPA2009 conference and interested in user research, please participate: http://bit.ly/zmRCI #
By show of hands, 2 of 15 usability testers collect time-on-task data. #upa2009 #
Kath Straub on a meaningful measure of web-site usage: Engagement Index (visitors move n clicks beyond the landing pg). #upa2009 #
Lickert scales and subjective sliders give the same results. The latter is more “fun” for participants. #upa2009 #
The volunteers and staff running #upa2009 this year are so friendly and helpful! #
Today at #UPA2009, in the Tools Of The Trade workshop, 7 participants will present the tools they use in their usability practice! #
Research idea: put iPhone-app icons on scrabble tiles, w/ a text label below each icon, so research participants can shuffle them. #upa2009 #
Further to prev tweet, you can get “fake” scrabble tiles at art-supply store, because some people make jewellery out of them. #upa2009 #
Wall-mounted User Personas incl a video cam attached to the wall. Staff watch representative video of users from the UP research. #upa2009 #
Annette on user personas: “The greatest sin in my work life is to have my own work not digestible and usable.” overheard at #upa2009 #
Discussion: editing research video faster. “It takes a long time w Adobe Premiere Elements.” Problem with handheld cam: Batteries! #upa2009 #
Discussion: editing research video: You can import avi, wmv into #Morae, then playback >100%, but do you get the editing features? #upa2009 #
Shane from TechSmith says: #Morae can log/tag events with a wii remote during the research, if your laptop is bluetooth enabled. #upa2009 #
Lisa says Balsamiq is cheap, and low-fidelity (sketch-like) but for $75 there are somethings it doesn’t do. Overheard at #upa2009 #
Tools: To share your Balsamiq interactive prototypes, your recipient needs #Balsamiq or you can provide live desktop-sharing. #upa2009 #
I’m impressed at the ease with which Lisa adds tables/grids and tabs to her prototype, by using Balsamiq. #upa2009 #
Discussion of HTML vs Axure vs Balsamiq for prototyping. At Mary’s company people like Axure. “Visio is a nightmare.” #upa2009 #
For usability testing, S asks room “Do ppl still prefer low-fi prototypes when we have tools to make things look fantastic?” “Yes!” #upa2009 #
Peers presenting tools to each other. Linda demos Revolution prorotyping tool, which evolved from HyperCard. Multimedia capability. #upa2009 #
Put a mirror in front of people as they work: they’re more productive, make fewer errors. From @kas’s #upa2009 session RT via @trentmankelow #
RT pls. What do you use to make multimedia-prototypes for usability testing, other than Runtime Revolution and Microsoft Blend? #upa2009 #
Annette doing impromptu demo of FlairBuilder. Let’s hear it for online presence and Twitter at #UPA2009 conference. #
Comparing FlairBuilder & Balsamiq: very similar, FlairBuilder is 2x price ($150) but not low-fi. “Lisa: Seems like it works better” #upa2009 #
Annette: “OOHH! YouTube” as she adds multimedia to FlairBuilder. Trent points out Annette’s Ooh: “There’s user delight.” #upa2009 #
ProtoShare combines prototyping, collaboration features, and spits out a document. Interesting, but no trial software! #upa2009 #
Another prototyping “tool” is taking big paper & markers to customers to walk thru the prototypes and gather sketched feedback. #upa2009 #
The weakness of paper prototyping is the lack of interaction — the transitions between the sketched states. #upa2009 #
Tip: Before sharing your PowerPoint prototypes: compress your ppt file: Format tab > Adjust group > Compress Pictures (one or all). #upa2009 #
Oh dear. When the client sees your obviously low-fi prototype and still says “I LOVE the visual design.” #upa2009 #
Raluca on attaching a camera to users’ mobile devices: users don’t want their device scratched, an extra half pound gets unwieldy #upa2009 #
Document camera looks like desk lamp, built in camera. It’s good to view user activity on a surface but not on a hand-held device #upa2009 #
Demo of a document camera. Its light may cause glare on a shiny device. Excellent image! Soft controls for brightness, focus, zoom. #upa2009 #
Discussion: is a web cam a substitute for a document camera? Doc cam ($3000) better for high detail, larger surfaces. #upa2009 #
Raluca: users “are really cautious” about having you attach video cameras on their phones for usability studies. Damage. #upa2009 #
Best: connect document camera to Morae (only if DirectShow driver). Or display the video live, and use #Morae to record the screen. #upa2009 #
Usability study collects user input into a “diary” by SMS/Twitter during the day. Users review and expand the diary in the evening. #upa2009 #
Cost of using private Twitter accts or D message to conduct int’l user research: whatever the cost of SMS/texting in your country. #upa2009 #
Shane demos #Morae. I’m already a user so it’s hard to pick out its amazing features because it’s all familiar to me. #upa2009 #
Need participants for research on the epistemology of usability research. Details at FiveSketches.com. Please approach me at #upa2009. #
Mary showed the use of SurveyMonkey. Discussion of privacy issues. SurveyMonkey is located in Portland. Any of you at #UPA2009? #
To recruit study participants, 3%-8% of Facebook ads get clicked, whereas display ads in MySpace “are broken”. Overheard at #upa2009 #
Annette says: recruit study participants with Facebook ads, buy a $1 age-appropriate photo from iStockPhoto.co; works for all ages. #UPA2009 #
Q: Incentives for int’l recruitment: how to pay ‘em? A: Via local bank; mail a USD cheques+$25 cashing fee; send local Amazon certs #upa2009 #
Tools workshop continues: productivity tools! Screen-sharing alternatives for PC & Mac: Yuuguu (time-limited) and @Mikogo (free). #upa2009 #
Christina Wallace shared several techniques for directing and redirecting a team by using images. #upa2009 #
Susan Weinschenk presents with great graphics, precision timing, visual jokes, engaging content. Excellent learning op. #upa2009 #
The next session’s another thrill! Four more Big Names: Chauncey Wilson, Karen Bachman, Rolf Molich, Nigel Bevan, on BoK. #upa2009 #
Body of Knowledge sess’n starts w 3-min frantic writing, on individual cards: “What should be in the BoK?” Results posted tomorrow #upa2009 #
Chauncey says the Body of Knowledge (http://www.usabilitybok.org/) is what’s left of UPA’s certificat’n attempt of a few years ago. #upa2009 #
Spanking! Chauncey Wilson: “Usability … is still a relatively young field in serious need of some discipline” at BoK session. #upa2009 #
Nigel Bevan says “invite people who put advice on lists (eg UTest) to add to the Body of Knowledge. http://www.usabilitybok.org/ #upa2009 #
Rolf Molich: If we’re begging volunteers to contribute content to the Body of Knowledge, it suggests we want quantity, not quality. #upa2009 #
Impressed yesterday to watch attendee w limited sight nav/pan so fast around Hilton’s sign-in page at 500% magnificat’n. #upa2009 @whitneyq #
Molich calls for HFI to publish what content the CUA certification covers. #
Rolf Molich calls for HFI to publish what content the CUA certification covers. #upa2009 #
First REAL discussion between audience and panel presenters I’ve seen, this year, at the Bok sesson! #upa2009 #
Carol Smith’s session on usability testing tips - the logistics of it. Tip 1: Hire a professional to recruit participants. #upa2009 #
Recruiting for remote #usability testing: recruit pple who have a separate phone line & Internet connection: screen share + talk. #upa2009 #
Can your remote participant install minor applications (e.g screen-sharing app.)? Some IT dept’s lock down user ‘s computers. #upa2009 #
Get someone to run you through your own usability test, beforehand. Give assistant a checklist to ensure you don’t forget anything. #upa2009 #
RT @MaryT_ A theme I’m seeing: have your team members try design or user research, and then share findings with everyone. #upa2009 #
“When you conduct on-site studies, always bring duct tape and painter’s tape {masking tape]” says Carol Smith at #upa2009 #
Technical trouble during a remote usability study? Log in to a user’s machine remotely: https://www.copilot.com/ #upa2009 #
In Online Card Sorting With Images, Jed Wood says “tell people the purpose of your study (e.g. website); you get better results.” #upa2009 #
Jed Wood says: Start with an open card sort, validate with a closed card sort. #upa2009 #
Modified Delphi method: card sorting with serial participants: one person sorts, the next person continues/adjusts it. #upa2009 #
If you have a very large set of cards to sort, give participants overlapping subsets. Works if subset is 60% of larger set. #upa2009 #
To study the IA of ALDO’s online shoe store: card sorting with images (not text) of footware. 51 womens, 53 mens. #upa2009 #
People think about footware in diff ways. Card-sorting with the same 104 cards, men create 7.2 groups, women 8.4 groups. #upa2009 #
Jamie Hart’s card-sorting results: “Surprise, surprise, men have a simpler view of shoes.” #upa2009 #
In the IA, men need 8 categories (down from 18) vs women need 22 groups (up from 18). Sales incr, user-complaints decr. #upa2009 #
Chris Nodder’s Usability for Evil: UI purposely designed to emotionally involve users in something that benefits you more than them #upa2009 #
Nodder: “If you want to learn about evil, read marketing literature.” “A complete disregard for their users; it’s maximize profit.” #upa2009 #
Nodder shows how companies put important information in plain sight, but use design, layout, to ensure nobody looks at it. #upa2009 #
On LinkedIn, Ron Bates has 40000+ contacts. If he spent 1 min with each, it would take him 3 working years to talk to them all. #upa2009 #
On an online store, a “Hacker/Virus Safe” logo in top left corner increases sales 8%, but are 2x as likely to be untrustworthy. #upa2009 #
“Give people member-only perks to keep them coming back.” How is this Evil? “THEY benefit more than YOU,” says Nodder. #upa2009 #
“Anything you can do to make people feel loved will endear them to you.” Can you do this on your site? #upa2009 #
Hebard at Intuit on ethnographic user research: “Our ethnographic findings are pretty durable,” can be used in successive projects. #upa2009 #
Hebard: “Ethnographic questions are about the LINK btwn culture & behavior.” Not “What are you wearing” but “Why’d you choose it?” #upa2009 #
Evangelize your research methods. Tell people what ethnography is, how to work with you, how it’s valuable. #upa2009 #
For longitudinal ethnography, use a pre-screening activity. If they can’t complete THAT, exclude them from long-term research. #upa2009 #
Example pre-screener for your longitudinal ethnographic-research subjects: “Take a photo of yourself, write a short introduction.” #upa2009 #
Ethnographers see emotions and FEEL emotions. Hebard tells story of flood that wipes out businesses & hope. Not like lab research. #upa2009 #
Ethnography: one of few ways to get people’s values & emotions. Write them down in your fieldnotes. Important for emotional design. #upa2009 #
Hebard’s hardest things about ethnography: 1. Framing the question, 2. Emotions (both the level of engagement and the abrupt end). #upa2009 #
At Intuit, the ethnographic research informed strategies for the design of future products, says Hebard. #upa2009 #
Eva Kaniasty lists four common criticisms of usability testing, proposes web analytics as a way to address some. #upa2009 #
Visitor/session tracking lets you track what visitors are doing. Where are users dropping off the optimal click path you designed?#upa2009 #
Kaniasty calls clickmaps & heatmaps from CrazyEgg “poor man’s eyetracking”. http://crazyegg.com/ #upa2009 #
Email datamining (e.g. via Facebook) is “stalking on a grand scale” says Kaniasty. Use the data for u-testing recruiting profiles, personas. #
Session recording (web sites) gathers scroll maps, form analytics, page actions. Helps find potential problems, tests browsers. #upa2009 #
Kaniasty says A | B multivariate testing is “pretty difficult.” I disagree. (@kas recommended testing multiples in a diff #upa2009 session) #
Eva Kaniasty’s overview of analytics/usability-testing methods covers the basics, so it’s perfect as a New-To-Usability topic at #upa2009 #
“Software is a necessary evil for those who build hardware,” says Leo Frishberg, at #UPA2009. #
Discussing famous Agile Process diagram (Desiree Sy in JUS 2:3 2007) where design in one sprint informs the dev of the next sprint. #upa2009 #
Sometimes you’re designing one or two cycles ahead of the coding, testing two or three cycles after the coding. #upa2009 #
Says the Agile session moderator: “I’d like to hear from you guys what REALLY happens in cycle zero.” #upa2009 #
When designing of concepts begins at sprint zero, then we need a research phase before that — 2-3 months for the field research. #upa2009 #
One speaker: at SAP the designers feel they own Agile’s sprint zero. #upa2009 #
Leo: “How do we approach the up-front research in an agile way so it’s not a black-box block that precedes Agile’s sprint zero?” #upa2009 #
“Make the thing fit the human, not vice versa” is ergonomics. “Make the __ fit the human, not vice versa” is #usability. So what’s the __? #
Leo thinks there’s a huge apology for the notion of Big Design at Agile sessions at #upa2009. Can you get a user experience w/out that? #
Sprint zero is about understanding. “During sprint zero, we had lots of getting-to-know-you and who-has-personas discussions.” #upa2009 #
If you work from the single sprint out, it’s difficult in any one sprint to know whether the piece is the right piece. #upa2009 #
Flashback to Jared Spool’s opening session: our role is like the stranger in the ‘Stone Soup’ story. We’re an enabling profession. #upa2009 #
“The only projects I’ve seen succeed is the-brilliant-dictator and the people-admit-the-product-will-iterate with customer input.” #upa2009 #
Lissajoux: “During Agile development, the project’s vision must be reset from time to time … and the pieces refactored.” #upa2009 #
In my experience, development teams like the promise of “speed” in Agile development. Is that the (sole) goal of Agile? #upa2009 #
“Our field has a tradition of critiquing. Do we hop on board Agile train if it produces bad results? Do we critique the process?” #upa2009 #
“I’ve come to appreciate Agile but it is a developer-focused process…that is it’s shortcoming. What about the rest of team?” #upa2009 #
“Agile is developer-focused because developers have been so inefficient. …With Agile, the bottleneck has moved to UX/UI/design.” #upa2009 #
Agile is rather ironically named. Isn’t it a broken development-centred philosophy? #upa2009 #
“Agile is an ogre that dominates the room.” (Much frustration with Agile being expressed, now, at this #upa2009 session.) “Futile” #
Voice of support: “Agile isn’t about checking off boxes in a process, but about organising the work in ways that gets it done.” #upa2009 #
[Do US attendees of #upa2009 notice that I use Canadian spelling, or assume I’m making Twittypos?] #
Leo says: “Agile has an extraordinarily dependency on co-location.” #upa2009 #
OK, I’m packing up; my ride is here! THANKS to all the volunteers and conference staff for a wonderful time. Enjoy closing plenary! #upa2009 #

Twitter whining or shared experiences?

JeromeR — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:55:24 +0000

Recently, one of the new-media gurus characterised Twitter as a place where people whine about the annoying or unexpected things that happen to them, in microblogs of 140 characters or less. Here are some examples:

davidcrow tweeted ”You can’t blame a guy for trying.” Ugh, you wasted 90 minutes of my day dude, and for trying to waste my time I blame YOU!
scottallen tweeted: RT @Mike_Wesely “Twitter has their heads up their butts” @replies still not fixed.
feather tweeted: To the girl on my left as I turned to swim back: you weren’t supposed to be there—your fault my hand went into your bathing suit, not mine.
sladner tweeted: Omnigraffle, what was life like before I met you? Did people really have to nudge objects using CTRL-Arrow?
dezign999 tweeted: Plastic container opener fail? http://twitpic.com/5y64d
TheDaveCarlson tweeted: sony email fail… i only need to send one. come on server!
jessmcmullin tweeted: I’ve never heard of a customer happy with Vaio support

The people I pay attention to on Twitter usually post positive or informative messages. But there’s nothing wrong with a little griping. We can all relate to a situation that’s gone wrong. Twitter is about shared experiences through a social network.

It’s often also about products, services, user experience, and design. In order, the above tweets say things about salespeople, Twitter, lifeguarding oversight, Omnigraffe, OpenIt scissors, and Sony’s site. Two thirds of these name or link to the company or the product in the message. And they do so via a social network.

Social networking is the equivalent of a reception. It’s a roomful of people, some of whom you know, some of whom you don’t. At this reception, the chatting happens asynchronously and it’s entirely free of geography. This is important to understand, because it’s the kind of world in which and for which we’re designing and building software and websites. Anyone, anytime, can comment on our products and sites, and others can search for—and be influenced by—those opinions. Consumers can get opinions from people they don’t know about a product or service, before they buy. For example, you can find opinions about a phone company by using these keywords in a Twitter search

or by visualizing the keywords or tags that people type in their Twitter messages about the phone company. Check this tag cloud—are the tags positive? negative? netural?—for Telus phone at ouTwit.me.

Would any of this influence my decision to purchase a mobile-phone contract from Telus?

Finally, just to show there’s nothing new under the sun, here’s a blog post that has already said a few of the things that I just thought of.

My Twittering (2009-05-17)

JeromeR — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Cookie usability. Cookies have affordance: the edge fits in toddler’s mouth for biting. The flat side only affords licking. #
Canadian airports with free wireless: Vancouver, Fredericton, Edmonton. Yay! Any others? #
You’re a usability nerd if your answer to “Why is cutlery always in the top drawer?” includes the words “taxonomy” and “statistically”. #
“We should not fall into the trap of thinking that if it’s hard to design, it must be good.” - Gerry McGovern #
A semantic-web thought: imagine supplying info to a 3rd party’s customer about that 3rd party. Any money in that gap? Ask Google. #
Ways to record your ethnographic observations. For those of us who need to produce something. http://ping.fm/J5hu3 #

My Twittering (2009-05-10)

JeromeR — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:00:00 +0000

For my blogging: looking for the formal name of the “ugly alternative” P.E.T.-design principle in the @kas #HFI webcast http://bit.ly/6cDt1 #
“An epidemic of overloaded text slides” in #ppt, says Dave Paradi in a podcast (http://bit.ly/jnczw) with sad & amusing examples. @wvmikep #
Semantic Web is slowly coming into focus for the wider world. Download the survey data or read the report: http://ping.fm/oOK92 #
What needs to cross the chasm next? Wireless laptop access. Enough with paying 14 ways til Sunday and jumping thru 27 hoops. #
You use credit & debit cards, now. Why not consolidate into your phone and use mobile banking? …What? …You don’t trust your phone company? #
Great “do” and “don’t” examples in this article on designing good call-to-action buttons: http://bit.ly/19oA3y Thanks @cinteractionlab #
Mobile Phone Security Challenge to split $½-mil for 4 best ideas that make stolen phones undesirable, data more secure. http://bit.ly/1awmpa #
The eighth most common search string sent to Google is “Google”. This points to a usability issue. #
Do you a) use 2 mobile phones or b) travel lots internationally with separate SIM cards for each country? A 2-in-1 phone http://bit.ly/4WGAm #
Nielsen: Web usability improved due to better IA. A 10% IA improvement returns 70% or more. http://bit.ly/1gi9P (Via @cbehrlich @uxtweets) #

My Twittering (2009-04-26)

JeromeR — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:00:00 +0000

A presentation on seductive interaction that I’d like to see, live: http://ping.fm/JzHcT
In Vancouver? I’m presenting tonight at 7pm, on core competencies and ideation-design. Details at http://ping.fm/SVNGp
I want to try it: Easy Meet for mobile devices/phones lets users view & mark up each other’s PPT slides. http://ping.fm/3uyav
Cute & funny, but this “PC in biohazard suit” ad is ill timed, given recent coverage of a Mac virus! And I like my PC. http://ping.fm/L4D3F
An overseeable review of 16 UI prototyping tools for web sites: http://ping.fm/rS28q
If Twitter is for high school girls, who says they aren’t supposed to write? In Defence of Twitter: http://bit.ly/qu7cX Thanks, @breebop
“Eye candy” article a good read (illustr.) about aesthetics, usability, and user experience. Like it! http://ping.fm/ccKJo
In an online course, students expect the instructor’s daily presence, whereas in face-to-face courses, once a week suffices.
Just did a spontaneous demo of #Jing for the other instructors. It’s the easiest way to quickly show & tell! http://bit.ly/xfu2l @betsyweber
Online distance education has communicat’n barriers. So integrate Skype into course-delivery ware. Hey, #WebCT, the API: http://bit.ly/ipqZN
In the absence of courseware that lets me rate student comments, I must use a rubric (marking grid) to track student participation by hand.
Does “student participation” in an online course mean “involvement in discussion”? Or something else?
It takes instructors time to assess the quality of online student discussion. Reward students for the number of posts? This choice sucks.
I think I’ll add a graded discussion component to weekly assignments: “Comment on the reading; respond to the comment of another student.”
RT In Vancouver? Next VanUE event: Designing for the Community Experience… Tues, May 26, 2009 - http://www.vanue.com - @bskelton

My Twittering (2009-04-12)

JeromeR — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:00:00 +0000

I have one item to add to this usability checklist (http://ping.fm/n2VQn): users don’t have to repeat any input. #
TG Daily on nettiquette: “within the […] Internet, just like in real life, there is this thing called personal space.” http://bit.ly/Sycha #
Product-design & localisation Fail: in Western Australia, I bought a yellow gel toilet-bowl cleaner. Once in the bowl: Ewww! Gimme blue! #
Can’t make heads or tails out of why people follow/drop me in Twitter. Confession: it took me a while to realise it shouldn’t matter to me. #
RT @steno This manual explains all the basics of usability: http://ping.fm/JaTam #
TweetDeck double-posted my last Tweet! People tell me they dislike TweetDeck. What do YOU use, is it usable, and do you _love_ it? #
Twenty things to make you a better blogger (I do 17 of them): http://ping.fm/qxI0V #
A bit of levity: 30 Twitter comics: http://ping.fm/Hoaq1 #
Six useful ingredients for good design are logo, colour, typography, brand, modularity, footer. Me, I need more. http://bit.ly/1AMNd9 #
When we’re dead and famous (whaddayamean “Ha!”?), will people do this to us with Web 4.0? http://tinyurl.com/cslhvk (from @bradeinarsen) #
Just tried Mikogo (desktop-sharing) during a phone meeting. I like it! Easier than ePop, similar to GoToMeeting but no fee. http://www.Mikogo.com #
Enviro or scary? Cows, sheep, & pigs produce 0.3 trillion tonnes methane yearly. Feed them fish oil (2% of diet) to reduce their farts 20%. #
Windows Security Alert insists my firewall is off when it’s on. Eventually, I set the icon not to appear. Annoying design increased my risk. #

My Twittering (2009-04-05)

JeromeR — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Search the web, then refine the search by clicking additional terms in the tag cloud. Do I like it? :$ You try it: http://ping.fm/3lVjd #
Overheard outside the YVR airport lounge: “Four Newfies were in there and drank ALL the beer. They’re OK; there just isn’t any more beer.” #
Expert prediction: computers to discover remaining laws of physics where we have massive amts of data but no theories. http://bit.ly/XIXIF #
On Twittering in court: cues upcoming witnesses, interferes with fair trial, but should be allowed. http://ping.fm/jVGhp #
If users acknowledge good usability & their messages make it to the Dev/Design team, will that motivate Dev/Design to value usability more? #

My Twittering (2009-04-04)

JeromeR — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Some of you won’t agree with me on whether usability studies are legitimate research. Comments? http://ping.fm/XRGDr #
We’re losing usability. Have you lost your half-typed work in Facebook, Wordpress, …? Office has autobackup. Why can’t browsers? #
Time to take my mom’s advice: “Nee heb je, ja kun je krijgen,” which means “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.” #
Did you expect the semanic web wouldn’t require any work on your part? (I was hoping…) http://iglue.com/beta/ #
Text formatting can ruin (or enhance) the readability and persuasiveness. Kath Straub @kas gives a professional assessment of her Kindle … #
“Distance Participation” as a way to attend a conference. Compare prices & perks in this sample (scroll the page): http://ping.fm/HM9f7 #
Would you get your money’s worth attending a conference remotely? What would it take to make you feel like a participant? #
Thousands sing one note in a song, with no idea of what they’re collectively singing. Web 2.0 art? http://ping.fm/6uZYh #
RT @kirstenahall @creattica: The 10 Commandments of Good Design http://bit.ly/Rawna #
SlideShare stripped the text out of my .pptx file but Xed the graphics from the .ppt file. Grr. The text version: http://tinyurl.com/5sketch #
RT Objectified (film) in Vancouver. Trailer: http://tinyurl.com/7ot5vg; follow @gary_hustwit @missjennyjenny #