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– “a community marketing campaign that will take the buzz around Firefox to the next level: the first-ever, full-page advertisement in a major daily newspaper [The New York Times] created and paid for by the open source community.”
Archives for October 2004
Breadcrumb Usage
Human Factors International provides an interesting analysis of breadcrumb navigation on Web sites.
> The resistance to using breadcrumbs is perplexing. They increase efficiency. They support site learning. They reduce the user’s “where-was-I?” memory burden by providing a list of recently visited pages. They make it easier to cross levels of the navigation decision tree within the browse environment.
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> Breadcrumbs make site learning and navigation more efficient. And it’s the designer’s job to enhance efficiency, right? So we continue to design sites with breadcrumbs.
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> But breadcrumbs are only beneficial if users notice them. And largely, they don’t. Or maybe they do and they are telling us something.
Person to Person Politics
Yet again, Mr. Lessig presents a wealth of information to the world via the Net. A new site, p2p-Politics makes so much sense, that I am rather surprised that no one else had already done this – I sure as hell didn’t think of it. Luckily he did.
What is it? Well, I’ll let them answer that question:
> There is an extraordinary range of political speech that has been created for this election, some of it professionally made, most of it not. We are volunteers who think that it should be easier for people to show other people the content they think they should see before they vote.
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> We built this peer-to-peer site to enable people to send personalized messages with links to video clips about this election.
Preschool plans whiskey fund-raiser
Preschool plans whiskey fund-raiser – “They’ve hired Ray Pearson to introduce area residents to the finer points of single-malt Scotch whiskey at a $35-a-person fund-raiser Saturday.” Damn, that’s a great fundraiser!
Thanks to Matt Jacobs for the link.
How the Electoral College Works
CNN has posted a great article detailing the history and workings of the Electoral College. I highly recommend people take a couple of minutes to read the post as it provides a wealth of information about one of the most important aspects of our democracy.