Thursday, May 30, 2002

I finally made it to an LA IA cocktail hour last evening. I preached the mozilla gospel, participated in the de riguer Jakob bashing, and got my rant in about the tiresome babblings of who does what and with what title. In the end, we all (user experience professionals) participate in largely similar software development processes and face the similar tradeoffs, using similar deliverables. George promised more real (my word) content at B&A along the lines of the recent excellent work on content filtering as UI. 9:43:12 PM    comment

Programming has always been a second string activity to user modelling and usability for me, but this type of seemingly offhand creation drive's my desire to master software creation I adapted Jon Udell's Blogroll data and program to whack out a similarity matrix that could be analyzed by a social network analysis program called ucinet.  9:14:48 PM    comment

Jill/txt offers a very cogent analysis of some weighty discussions on the nature of linking in and  amongst blogs. There's a distinction between link and content driven blogs. Surfmind is certainly rather link heavy, but that's largely due to the presence of a backend search engine, built to replace my bookmarks several years back. I'm not yet happy with the integration of the engine with the blog -- I will likely have to resort to a bit of DHTML to swap content around in the near term. This debate, at least at a reading of Jill's summary, seems to discount that many link-heavy weblog authors use their blogs as a personal trail book. 8:53:52 AM    comment