The saga of TV station search wierdness continues. For the last few days I have been doing a bunch of search interface testing on the news sites of our local TV stations. I had a standard list of search subjects that I ran through all the sites. One of which was “motorcycle chase”. (Other searches …
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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. …
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 …
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 …
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