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Wednesday, November 7, 2001

OPENING THANG

Well, my timing is amazing. I came down with the flu on Saturday morning, and was recovered by Monday night, which meant I did not get to take advantage of the fact that my husband has Columbus day off. A perfectly good three-day weekend spend blowing my nose! However, in between naps I had a good time beta-testing the new blog management system, Moveable Type.

with which I built a Ahttp://www.nothing-new.com/food/

more comments on the new toy on metafilter.

I'm going to be doing usability testing on it next week; please let me know if you are interested in participating. You must live in SF or be willing to come up, and already be blogging or actively planning to start a blog in the near future.

Noel's gotten sick too, which means the carbon log is hopping

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Posted by christina on Wednesday, 11/07/01 10:10 AM CST

IA MATTERS

You've probably seen this: I saw it earlier, forgot about it, and have returned to print it out finally
Welcome to the Introductory Tutorial on Thesaurus Construction

The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine

Changes in Metatag Descriptions Over Time

Information Architecture and the Support of Brand Promise (pdf)
"Some believe information architects should only concerned with the structure of hard information. I disagree." Note: his graphics are misbehaving, but the ideas are all there
http://timsalam.com/articles/

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Posted by christina on Wednesday, 11/07/01 10:09 AM CST

USABILITY MATTERS

Web Sites That Work
Considering interface standards on the web

Tools for Usability

Making the World a Happier Place, One Web Site at a Time
An interview of Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir concerning their new title, "Homepage Usability."

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Posted by christina on Wednesday, 11/07/01 10:08 AM CST

RESEARCH MATTERS

The Intel Lookout
Rethinking Corporate Research: Why does the world's biggest chip maker outsource so much research?

Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks
Rethinking Corporate Research: Why and how IBM restored its world-class labs to business relevance.

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Posted by christina on Wednesday, 11/07/01 10:07 AM CST

MARKETING MATTERS

Buying Your Way to the Top
Is buying search terms deceptive advertising?

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Posted by christina on Wednesday, 11/07/01 10:07 AM CST

PROJECT MANAGEMENT MATTERS

Ten Mistakes in Site Planning

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Posted by christina on Wednesday, 11/07/01 10:06 AM CST

APROPOS OF NOTHING

the Charms of le charm

and many other fine food articles...

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Posted by christina on Wednesday, 11/07/01 10:05 AM CST