I just saw kottke's comments on my new wired interview, about hacking amazon url's... 1st, the real news is that wired has slipped so far their editors even ...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 3, 2000 1:18 am
... i searched for 'link color' here: <URL:http://www.acm.org/archives/wa.cgi?S1=chi-web> and i found only the usual debate about nielsen's opinions on whether...
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Dan Hartung
dhartung@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:00 am
... From: Anita Rowland <anitar@... ... I have to agree, it's a terrific combination of information and functionality. Thanks to Dan again for SHF, and...
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Anita Rowland
anitar@...
Mar 2, 2000 11:33 pm
I've been using Dan Sanderson's subhonker filter explorer pane page (say that three times fast) yesterday and today. it's great fun! ...
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Mike Gunderloy
MikeG1@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:53 pm
Book design experiments are still going on, of course. Many books are somewhere near the "average" (that's what makes it an average), but others are not. I'd...
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brig
brig@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:48 pm
... um. link colors have been on the radar screen ever since designers realized they could change them. trying looking through the web-chi archives it's a...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:42 pm
... This is just defeatism. In the decades after Gutenberg's first books, various experiments were attempted, and a maximally readable format was converged-on....
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David M. Chess
chess@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:32 pm
I find myself with various reactions to this. The first is "shall we also conduct some polls to see which *words* work the best?". *8) But that's the...
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Dan Hartung
dhartung@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:29 pm
From: Jorn Barger <jorn@...> ... to ... We aren't? Oh -- you mean _controlled_ experiments ... ... And ... combinations? Wasn't there something blogged...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 2, 2000 8:52 pm
One way to start would be if people notice what weblogs (etc) have hard-to-read combos, and post those lists. -- To the Sirens first shalt thou come, who...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 2, 2000 8:30 pm
Is there some way that the weblog community can collectively run a series of experiments on link-colors and background-colors, to try to find what combos work...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 2, 2000 7:34 pm
I don't ever hear people praising NewsHub: <URL:http://www.newshub.com/world/> It has the fastest, cleanest, broadest access I know to standard newsfeeds,...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 2, 2000 11:57 am
Picture this: - handheld web browsers keep dropping in price, and the third world finds ways to buy billions of them - the average web surfer creates at least...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:55 pm
... You really need something like 'The Sims' then, where you have a little SimDan coded up, and you feed it your schedule, and it tries to match the schedule...
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Dan Lyke
danlyke@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:43 pm
... The issue with me is that, much like turn signals on cars, all of these things depend upon the publisher being conscious of their use. I don't want to go...
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Bill Humphries
bill@...
Mar 1, 2000 4:13 pm
... Wow, I was blown away to hear the word APA here. I've been participating in one for ten years. In the early 90's, when email was become ubiquitous, I...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:48 pm
... there a (low-noise) debate going on somewhere? You're probably not going to like this, but a very respectful discussion on discuss.userland.com. ...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:46 pm
I don't do it on the server, it happens on the workstation, while it's saving the changed version on my machine. Saving to the server is as fast as saving to...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:44 pm
... Also important is that they become much more _transparent_, which scares big biz. ... It feels like chipping away at their trunk... ... I'm still reeling...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:43 pm
... expressive way, like cobwebs if it hasn't been modified in a year, or crooked lines if you were in a hurry when you made your last changes, or muted colors...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:41 pm
... I think these slow down page-rendering almost as much as links. Bibliomania, for example, which tags every line, loads really slow for an all-text site. --...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:38 pm
I think EditThisPage.Com qualifies as an Amateur Press Association. I like the idea. I think actually the whole web will gravitate to this, even those who...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:38 pm
... He's no Ellen Pronk! ;^/ But what I want is things that change the whole look of the page in an expressive way, like cobwebs if it hasn't been modified in...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:35 pm
Here's a step in the right direction for general paragraph addressibility. Everyone should use a web writing tool that can automatically add <a name> tags to...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:28 pm
... Why not just add it to MSIE and Mozilla, now? ... That's not an url, it's a _program_! I agree that anchoring paragraph-counts to subsection-headers would...
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Jorah Lavin
madstone@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:10 pm
Hey, all Back in the dark ages of the early 80s I participated in something called "Amatuer Press Associations" or APAs. The ones I was in were set up where ...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:10 pm
Jorn, a good way to start is to browse the images in the Zeldman icon collection. We've started to use them in the EditThisPage.Com community, or really we're ...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:05 pm
I sometimes wonder what will be the _right_ thing to do with the money, if I ever make my million... And the thing I've been thinking lately is a privately...
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David M. Chess
chess@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:03 pm
Well, see iMood.com. But I have to admit I don't really understand the idea; why would a reader of my log want to know what mood / energy level /...
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Jorn Barger
jorn@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:22 am
If you study animal behavior (ethology), they have a concept for signals that animals give, that indicate their _intentions_ to do something important (like...
