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Tuesday, August 21, 2001

OPENING THANG

It's not Jakob Nielsen's birthday, but I meant every word I said.

went over to a friend's new company to see the prototype of their new website. guess what palette they used?

matt's back from Australia, and that means mefi's up again!

Personal note: Travis is the latest rat to leave this city and he'll be missed.

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:54 AM CST

DESIGN MATTERS

very nifty bitmap fonts

Promoting Visual Thinking
"Our language for analyzing, responding, describing, judging and
communicating is verbal. Visual thinking is always translated into verbal
language in order to be widely understood"
thanks to the insidious Vander Wal!

While looking for tom's site, I tripped over this interesting url of a photographer. I don't know about you, but I like pictures of boats.

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:52 AM CST

TECH MATTERS

p2p weblogs

If you deal with stylesheets a lot, you probably already know Agitprop, but
if you are new to dealing with them, then this is a great site for you.

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:50 AM CST

COMMUNITY MATTERS

The latest digiweb is all about community

highlights include
Building an Online Community "Just Add Water"
Matt Haughey shares the secrets of metafilter's success.

and an interview with Derek of { fray }

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:50 AM CST

NEWS & COMMENTARY

Google indexes blogs to stay current.

Forrester Research: Minitel to lose dominance in France
"Forrester predicts that the predominance of Minitel in France will
fade away over the next five years." Now there's a newflash....

Cyber Dialogue: Unsolicited email irks consumers
"Seventy-seven percent of US Internet users say their privacy is
invaded when they receive an unsolicited email from a company they do
not know, reports Cyber Dialogue." and another newsflash....

Nielsen NetRatings: Banks spending heavily on online ads
"Three of the top five spenders on online advertising in the US in
June were financial services companies, according to
AdSpectrum." maybe the standard should have gone to the banks?

The Industry Standard: Net population growth slows in US
"The growth of the US Internet population is slowing, reports The
Industry Standard."

lots more good news at http://www.nua.com/surveys

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:49 AM CST

APROPOS OF NOTHING

sex, love, or war with a gopher? The cruel wife diaries.
via biggerhand.com

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:48 AM CST

OPENING THANG

this gleanings originally sent out Tuesday, August 14, 2001

A yummy new Nua Internet Surveys http://www.nua.com/surveys arrived in my inbox today. enjoy!

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:45 AM CST

DESIGN & IA MATTERS

rocking my planet. I clicked installation and there were visual explanations. lovely.
thanks to mook who was helping me collect gray sites.

good example of a style manual

An IA list was asked for examples of non-traditional navigation. Here are some of the replies.
http://www.artandculture.com
http://www.emplive.com/digitalcollection/index.asp
http://www.vday.org
www.subzero.com/home.html

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:45 AM CST

MARKETING MATTERS

Electronic Game Maker Lets Kids Do Their Marketing for Them
"Early this year, market researchers headed into playgrounds, skate parks and video arcades throughout Chicago looking for what they called alpha pups."
via rebeccablood.net

"Weaselly Web advertisers need lessons in how to behave."
via littlegreenfootballs.com

User Friendly E-Cards Study
interesting article on ecards and viral marketing

Opt-in News: Email marketers focus on customer acquisition
"A study of companies engaged in permission based email marketing has
found that the majority use it as a customer acquisition tool."

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:43 AM CST

NEWS & COMMENTARY

'Web Bugs' Are Tracking Use of Internet
"Many people who have personal Web pages are unknowingly tracking people who visit and sending the information to third parties, according to a new report."

The modern identity
"How are new technologies changing our public identities, both formal
and informal?"

NetValue: Germans heaviest users of online porn
"More Germans visit adult sites, and spend more time at them, than
people in any other European country, according to NetValue." no comment from frau wodtke...

Parks Associates: More US homes to use broadband
"Parks Associates predicts that 10.7 million US households will have
broadband Internet access by the end of this year, up from the
current figure of 8.6 million."

Venture Economics: VC funding remains buoyant
"Latest research from Venture Economics and the National Venture
Capital Association indicates that US venture capitalists have USD45
billion available to invest in companies." give it me. I'm starting a German porn company.

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:42 AM CST

EVENTS

Information in a Networked World:
Harnessing the Flow
ASIST Annual Meeting
November 3-8, 2001
Washignton, DC

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:41 AM CST

APROPOS OF NOTHING

for the library geek within: the great library card collection

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Posted by christina on Tuesday, 08/21/01 09:40 AM CST