A Quick Guide to Website Usability Testing
Posted in usability on Aug 6th, 2007
The Online Journalism Review gives us a guide to do-it-yourself website usability testing.
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A recent study by the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based journalism school has found that those who read news on the web, have a greater attention span than those who read print - reading more of the articles they choose to read.
Online Identities: Zombies on the Web.
Posted in social media, usability on Jan 24th, 2007
Jitendra Gupta and Richard MacManus have an interested piece on Read/Write Web where they look at “throwaway identities” online. The core of the issue is how people create accounts or identities online, and then change them. Sometimes, this is intentional - such as using an email address for subscriptions, so you don’t get spam in […]
Google enveiled an interesting feature to its RSS reader. It allows you to analyze your reading habits, if you use their RSS service.
Matt Cutts shows an example of his habits - which feeds he reads most and when. This already seems to be fueling a war for bragging rights:
“I’ve read 2000+ blog posts from 80+ […]
Are Media Companies Leaders, or Followers?
Posted in web metrics, media, Publishing, newspapers, magazines, news, innovation, usability, journalism on Dec 10th, 2006
Week after week, I link to articles that profile the massive changes going on within media and journalism. Each illustrates companies and people who are coping with a change in their industry that they are forced to endure.
Perhaps these changes are discussed as “opportunities” in some articles; in others, but in many, they are filled […]
Web 2.0 Bubble
Posted in media, customer experience, innovation, web, usability on Sep 13th, 2006
I am seeing signs that we are definitely in a Web 2.0 bubble. But I am also beginning to recognize who will survive. In a culture where publishers and media companies are rapidly shifting strategies, there is a lot to learn from those on the cutting edge - the tech industry.
You see, people are beginning […]
Odds & Ends
Posted in advertising, Google, online video, mobile, search, usability on Sep 7th, 2006
Some other interesting stories this week:
Local Search Spending To Double
Google Introduced Mobile Ads
How to be a Net Video Hit
The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News
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