Author Archives: lara

Some new campers in the cab­in this after­noon. xkcd — Sweet, geeky stick fig­ure car­toons. Well, maybe not sweet. Very exis­ten­tial. Very occa­sion­al. Very worth wait­ing for. Joho the Blog — David Weinberger’s intrigu­ing and occa­sion­al­ly mad­den­ing­ly insights into all things inter­net and beyond. Modern Mechanix — I just love these reprints from our geeky past. … 

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In the May issue of UXMatters Pabini Gabriel-Petit writes about how User Experience pro­fes­sion­als fit into the over­all prod­uct devel­op­ment team. (Sharing Ownership of UX) He argues for a prod­uct team made up of three dis­ci­plines: Product man­age­ment, user expe­ri­ence, and engi­neer­ing, all hav­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for dif­fer­ent aspects of the user expe­ri­ence. As he points … 

Continue read­ing “TQR — Sharing Ownership of UX”

Go to the Ambidextrous Magazine web­site. Click on one of the PDFs on the front page. Read the nice­ly illus­trat­ed, pro­fes­sion­al­ly type­set arti­cle. Carry one of the ideas around in your head for the rest of the day. Tell me what you saw. (thanks to DR over at meta­cool for the orig­i­nal link.)

Following on the Web Dragon’s book review post. Smashing Magazine has an arti­cle on how Google’s PageRank (cur­rent­ly) works. It’s a sum­ma­ry of the things that are known about Google’s PageRank algo­rithm. It’s good to see a dis­cus­sion of PageRank that reminds the read­er the PR is a mea­sure of quality/authority of a page and … 

Continue read­ing “Web Dragons X‑Ray: From Smashing Magazine — PageRank Explained”

Re the pre­vi­ous two posts. As I men­tioned ear­li­er today, there’s more than one thing hinky about one of the local TV sta­tion’s web­site. I now know exact­ly how I got myself stuck in mem­ber­ship hell. Follow along: open your favorite brows­er. go to www.king5.com enter a search like, say, “one car” enter anoth­er, “two trucks” another, … 

Continue read­ing “And Now I Know How I Ended Up in Membership Hell.”