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Monday, March 03, 2003 |
Useit.Com: Persuasive Design: New Captology Book. After ten dark years of fighting (and partly conquering) user-hostile design without much theoretical progress in HCI, Dr. Fogg has now opened the field's next frontier with his work on "captology" -- computers as persuasive technologies. [Tomalak's Realm]
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''Enter The White Stripes,'' by Whitney Pastorek:
I was an unlikely candidate to pitch a story to National Public Radio, to have it accepted, and a few months later, to hear myself on Morning Edition but holy cow, that's just what happened.
And if I can do it, there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON ON EARTH WHY YOU CANNOT, and that's what I hope this little narrative-essay-guide-troubleshooting- glimpse-at-the-nervous-breakdown-that-was-my-first-radio-piece will help you realize: Between your own common sense and resources readily available (such as the brain trust that is Transom), you have all the skills you need to make your public radio dreams come true.
- The Idea and The Pitch
- Preparing For & Conducting an Interview
 
Once I stopped glowing, I had to face a certain reality: I had interviewed the White Stripes, and it had been an amazing experience - but now I had an hour of digital tape staring me in the face. And I had no idea what to do with it.
- The Edit
- Whitney Interviews Her Editor
Hear Whitney's Story on NPR's Morning Edition
2:32:54 PM
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== BlogFodder ==
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present. - Wyndham Lewis
This interests me today because I'm reading Gibson's Pattern Recognition, which also makes certain remarks about knowledge of history and the present.
7:14:11 AM
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Library Catalogs: The Wrong Solution. By Roy Tennant, in Library Journal.
Pick a popular book and pretend you are a library patron. Choose three to five libraries at random from the lib-web-cats site (pick catalogs that are not using your system) and attempt to find your book. Try as much as possible to see the system through the eyes of your patrons—a teenager, a retiree, or an older faculty member. You may not always like what you see. Now go back to your own system and try the same thing.
What should the public see?
Our users deserve an information system that helps them find all different kinds of resources—books, articles, web pages, working papers in institutional repositories—and gives them the tools to focus in on what they want. This is not, and should not be, the library catalog. It must communicate with the catalog, but it will also need to interface with other information systems, such as vendor databases and web search engines. [News Is Free: Popular Items]
7:08:26 AM
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Going to Extremes to Fight Spam. A new spam filter from the creators of AvantGo takes a draconian approach to killing spam: only approved senders make it into a user's inbox. Trouble is, it will never work, spam experts say. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
6:56:57 AM
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The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution. Today, a 5-pound bag of flour costs about 69 cents, an amount that half a millennium ago took three days of work to earn. A commentary by J. Bradford DeLong from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
6:52:12 AM
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