“Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself” gets a thumbs up from sitecritique.net. “This book is extremely important for project managers, as well as designers who are looking for some guidance before beginning a large project.”
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At Economist.com, compliance is in the works. Adrian Holovathy discusses proper code use and makes me look good in the process. (No promises yet on Economist.com’s HTML, but we’re working on it.)
Do plan on spending money indiscriminately and wondering where it all went.
Don’t schedule a tee time for golf before noon and expect to make it on time.
Do mix and mingle friends, because they will have fun as a unit.
Don’t order $4.25 platters of escargot. (Some of your tripmates may disagree with you, but it’s a personal decision.)
Do coordinate travel so that most of the party is flying and driving at the same time.
Don’t go to South Carolina in July.
Do eat, drink, and be merry, because it’s hard not to have a good time. Congratulations, Steve!
Yahoo is now going to integrate ever-more-intrusive (read annoying) ads in an attempt to increase ad revenue and effectiveness.
Note to Yahoo: I use your Weather service because weather.com is too full of intrusive ads. As your services get more obnoxious, I may well migrate away from them as well. (And I sincerely hope I don’t.)
[See also: A quiet, and sad, realignment, July 3, 2002]
David Strom reports that an increasing percentage of email is being filtered—often without the recipient’s knowledge. More and more frequently, harmless email is being branded as spam due to the inclusion of words that the filters brand as inappropriate. Quoted in the article: “In short, we’re starting to see signs that email, often hailed as the Internet’s ‘killer app,’ is in danger of becoming an unreliable, arbitrarily censored medium – and there’s very little we can do about it.”
OJR: News Sites Hustle for Profitability. “Most news sites are going with the conventional wisdom: Users won’t pay to see your site; you have to find other ways to make money.”
I’ve had a hunch for a while now that stock prices had been twice or three times as expensive as they should be, even after the dotcom bubble. Unfortunately, the markets are now agreeing with me, and stocks are declining like Michael Jackson’s album sales. I now call the big index the Dow(n) Jones, and I’m just holding out hope we don’t end up in a decade without growth.
Good thread at Sportsfilter dealing with major league baseball’s contention that some teams won’t be able to make payroll this summer. In it I analyze how new revenue-friendly ballparks do not correlate with the team’s success or recurrent fan interest.
Meanwhile, baseball executives are busy telling lies to the media that their own statistics refute. Then they wonder why people don’t believe the spin.
Earth to Selig and Fehr: Unless you start paying attention, you won’t have any payroll to worry about, once the strike/lockout kicks in and the fans lose interest.
Major League Baseball voluntarily ended a game in a tie last night.
That maneuver is such an amazingly appropriate symbol of everything wrong with baseball that it’s hard to fathom how it came off so smoothly.
I’m going to compile a list here of the best editorial screeds telling baseball what the players and owners need, but refuse, to hear about the state of its sport:
~ Feeling cheated? Get used to it, Jim Caple, ESPN.com
~ Baseball’s All-Stall Break (mentioned here yesterday), Dave Anderson, The New York Times
~ The Strike That Will Kill Baseball, Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post
Know another one? Send it along.