There’s an interesting, but brief, writeup on the new Overdrive and Recorded Books services in this month’s print edition of Library Journal. Recorded Books, a supplier of downloadable material to libraries, plans to announce an agreement with major studios at the annual conference of the American Library Assn. June 21-27 in Washington, according to Recorded [...]
Tag Archives: Users
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07-Jun-07The Landscape of User Research
09-May-07I’m currently enjoying this book: Mulder, S., & Yaar, Z. (2007). The user is always right: A practical guide to creating and using personas for the web. Berkeley, CA: New Riders. Mostly because of the way the authors break down the persona creation process. This landscape of user research chart is a good example of [...]
Lisa Halabi has a very good article at usabilitynews.com on the common question of whether or not to implement usability guidelines (aka an expert usability review) in place of conducting usability testing. An expert review is tempting because a reasonable person would expect to be able to codify what is and what is not good [...]
Comcast is shutting down service to patrons whose bandwidth use reaches a high but undefined level according to this Boston Globe Article. They’re refusing to let customers know what the cutoff point is, because they are claiming that the number changes based on network capacity. One sections I thought interesting: Feddeman declined to say where [...]
There’s an interesting article out in Information Systems Journal about the difficulties encountered while trying to get a list of requirements from users. It’s not a problem that affects users only, but it also affects investigators and designers of user centered design: Pitts, M. G., & Browne, G. J. (2007). Improving requirements elicitation: An empirical [...]
Here is a link to an interesting section from this weekend’s On the Media podcast titled Mobile Malcontent. It’s talks about the recent work of Columbia University Law’s James Wu which was also touched on by this Washington Post article. The text of Wu’s article is available via SSRN: Wu, Tim, “Wireless Net Neutrality: Cellular [...]
Yahoo Pipes
21-Feb-07I’ve been messing around with Yahoo Pipes, and love the concept even though the implementation is a bit clunky. Fascinating project though, and I’m excited for how this will grow. Although I’m not sure about the name, reminds me a little bit about Ted Steven’s Internet Tubes. … Here’s a pipe that I’ve set up [...]
My colleague Elaine Peterson has an excellent article up on folksonomies called Beneath the Metadata, Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy. Here she builds a good comparison of both traditional cataloging and this type of social approach. Others may have said it before, but one thing that I’m always interested in is the social aspect of [...]
Is it library work?
09-Sep-06Terence Huwe has an interesting article in the recent edition of Online. Here’s the citation: Huwe, T. K. (2006). From librarian to digital communicator. Online, 30(5), 21-26. He charts the path through which the U. Berkeley’s Institute and Industrial Relations Library has inserted itself into the information flow starting back when e-mail was such a [...]