May 23, 2006

Two presentations at Poynter

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

I had the profound privilege of participating as visiting faculty at last week's Leadership for Online News Managers seminar at the Poynter Institute. Seminar participants already have the links to my two PowerPoint presentation decks, and I'm sure the... ›››

May 18, 2006

Tagging news for structure, utility

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Adrian Holovaty, one of journalism's smartest people on all things online, proposes some new ways of tagging news stories to give them more useful structures. A news story is intended to be "consumed" by humans, not computers. Indeed, one... ›››

May 04, 2006

Google algorithm tweaks vs. Web spam

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Here's an intriguing take, as always from The Register, on Google's latest indexing algorithm update. Seems it has legitimate Webmasters riled up more than usual; these tweaks happen fairly often, but the latest one may have exposed some real... ›››

May 02, 2006

It’s a’hard, it’s a’hard, it’s a’haaaaard …

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

I'm planning to write an essay for this journal and the e-newsletter, and I need your help. Theme: [The Internet/The personal computer/Consumer technology in general] is still too hard to use. So do me a favor. E-mail me your... ›››

April 19, 2006

Sterling goes solo

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Not sure how I missed this, but I found out today Greg Sterling left the Kelsey Group and has formed his own consulting enterprise, Sterling Market Intelligence. What's he covering? His new bio says he's "focused on online consumer... ›››

March 10, 2006

A man of (news)letters

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

People who produce Web sites are always curious about how other people produce Web sites. Case in point: an old friend and colleague called this week for some advice about running Web content management on behalf of a good-sized... ›››

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March 08, 2006

Good JavaScript tutorial from SitePoint

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

The SitePoint gang comes back with another great tutorial (I liked their Ajax primer last year, too): Script Smarter: Quality JavaScript from Scratch. SitePoint's smart about free-sample marketing. This tutorial comes from a book the company has published on... ›››

Category: Technology | design | development | security | usability