Microformat schema are sorely needed. Parsing for microformats presently feels…clunky.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Snazzlefoop
May 30, 2006 – 5:01 pm
According to Google, no one has ever published the word “snazzlefoop,” which I just manufactured to test Languid. (It correctly identified the language as gibberish, which appears to lack an ISO code.)
PersonCode
May 25, 2006 – 5:11 pm
A few years ago I was musing about the need to “tag” online resources with personal identifiers more secure than email addresses and less exclusive than URLs, and thought it might be nice to encourage the use of mailto: URI hashes as in the FOAF spec as “secure enough” personal identifiers. “foaf:mbox_sha1sum” doesn’t exactly […]
Clickhunting
May 25, 2006 – 9:40 am
Sébastien Paquet blogged some lessons from Jared Spool. Besides pointing out that “above the fold” is not as show-stoppingly critical as some believe (but still important, see the “Iceberg effect”), he articulates an important concept in HCI. Users are seeking a destination (either action or information) and it keeps them happy to reward […]
Good UI sighting
May 22, 2006 – 7:05 pm
Technorati has a wonderful solution for shielding users from accidental destructive action: offer an undo link along with the response message:
This is much less disruptive than an “are you sure?” dialog, which are often ignored by confirmation fatigued users. It may seem too subtle, but designers are already tasked with tastefully drawing attention to […]
Wishlist
May 22, 2006 – 6:50 pm
I want one of those neat computers they have on TV that can “enhance” 6 pixels of a blurry image into a crisp, legible image of a license plate.
Now in Technicolor
May 20, 2006 – 5:33 pm
Will continues his overtures toward Starbucks sponsorship with episode 6 of Calico Monkey.
Like Winer
May 13, 2006 – 7:57 pm
Share Your OPML says that my reading habit most closely matches Dave Winer. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Persistance of data
May 9, 2006 – 9:10 am
On long-term data storage:
If you write it on papyrus and lock it in a pyramid, we know it will last a few thousand years. Everything else is just guesswork.
David Ely’s uncle
Paris wrap-up
May 7, 2006 – 10:40 am
Staying in the 1st arrondissement and spending most of your time within the city département certainly exposes one to a different Paris than I saw in 2002 staying further out and wandering throughout the grande couronne. I saw a much cleaner city this time, and since most of the people I interacted with lived off tourism, they were quite amiable.
