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Sept. 11 memory
It seems like many people remember clearly where they were when they first found out about the attack on the World Trade Center. I was working at MSU University Relations at the time, and was in the midst of working on the web site for the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. I walked out of my…
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Wired article: Ads that Annoy Also Succeed
Ads That Annoy Also Succeed by Adam L. Penenberg of Wired.com points out a great fact: Spam and Pop-up ads actually work, or advertisers wouldn’t still be using them. One of the reasons they work is that the cost of doing these kinds of ads are so low, that a very low conversion rate can…
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Legal action on accessible web sites in USA
Here’s the press release from the New York State Attorney General’s Office: SPITZER AGREEMENT TO MAKE WEB SITES ACCESSIBLE TO THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED. As far as I know, this is the first major legal case in the U.S. where .com web sites are made to provide accessible web sites. The sites are Ramada.com…
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Gonna have to register
Okay. After just getting slammed by a dozen blog spam comments on Cialis and online casinos, I turned on TypeKey authentication for this blog. To comment, you’ll need to create a typekey account. You’ll only have to do this once, and probably you won’t actually have to sign in that often. Warning: To those who…
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IOC vs Free Speech?
Wired.com posted an article, You’re Athletes, Not Journalists, that to me sounds like it is at odds with the whole “free speech” idea. The International Olympic Committee is barring competitors, as well as coaches, support personnel and other officials, from writing firsthand accounts for news and other websites.
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Pictures from when Lila was a newborn
I just ran across some photos we had of when Lila was born. They’re on my old web space at MSU. Chey still had dreads at that point.
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Comment problems
FYI, I updated this blog software to the most recent version of Movable Type, and the comment features aren’t working right. No matter what I set the preferences to, every comment submitted is help for approval — which I don’t really want. I’d prefer that the comments just went up and if there is something…
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Beauty of a web site
Tractinsky, N., Katz, A.S., and Ikar, D.
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Fitt’s Law Applied to the Web
Fitt’s Law Applied to the Web by Scott Berkun, Microsoft Corporation. The basic idea in Fitts’s Law is that any time a person uses a mouse to move the mouse pointer, certain characteristics of objects on the screen make them easy or hard to click on. The farther the person has to move the mouse…
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FUNNY: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Go to Google.com, type “weapons of mass destruction” into the search field, and click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Note, though, don’t click the link about the t-shirt at the bottom of the page. I got pop-ups about online gambling.