Beer & evidence
Last Thursday and Friday I was in Chicago for Edward Tufte’s course “Envisioning Data and Information,” which I attended with my former student assistant Jacob Davis. The night before the course we met...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 style update
I’m almost done with the first real draft of the web 2.0 style article. Draft zero is done; I’m reworking that now, smoothing and the like. One concern: I keep going back to the same examples, and I...
View ArticleRenovations
It’s been about four years since I gave the design of this weblog serious attention. Time to correct that. So if things look or act funky, bear with me as I update, extend, and experiment a bit, hoping...
View ArticleNielsen on kids (and summarized too)
If you want a summary of Jakob Nielsen’s corpus, look no further than “Children’s Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids.” Scroll down to the “Children vs. Adult Users” subhead, and check out...
View ArticleMore lllinois ethics silliness
The State of Illinois has added yet another ethics requirement. Now all communication regarding procurement must be logged and reported on a new web site, the “Procurement Communications Reporting...
View ArticleTransfer research design
I mentioned the transfer research project Neil Baird and I have started when I discussed my sabbatical retooling, but I haven’t written much about it here; just a brief outline long ago when I...
View ArticleInfographics, tables, and spring teaching
Information visualization is hot stuff these days, as sharing on Facebook shows. Ivan Cash built an “Infographic of infographics” based on Good.is visualizations. FastCompany offers five tools for...
View ArticleDartmouth Seminar
I’ve mentioned a key element in my sabbatical retooling, the Dartmouth Seminar for Composition Research. The first two weeks of August, I traveled to Hanover, NH to the campus of Dartmouth College,...
View ArticleGoodbye, Delicious
I’ve tried to hang on, but it’s time. Delicious is having server problems again. They’ve changed bookmarking behavior in troubling ways: I can barely enter bookmarks, whether it’s with browser...
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