Auf Jill's Weblog kann man nicht oft genug hinweisen. Heute die Links zu Why researchers blog, Online Identities und Sexist Blogging.

"A U.S. survey has found that one in five teenagers between ages 12 and 17 maintain personal blogs that often attract audiences far wider than their circle of friends and relatives..." [more]

Das wär' doch was für Google...

"The 80:20 rule originated from Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who studied the distribution of wealth in a variety of countries around 1900. He discovered a common phenomenon: about 80% of the wealth in most countries was controlled by a consistent minority -- about 20% of the people. Pareto called this a "predictable imbalance." His observation eventually became known as either the "80:20 rule" or "Pareto's Principle"."

Wie sich dieses Prinzip auf Informationsarchitektur anwenden lässt und welche Auswirkungen es auf Interface Design hat, erläutert Louis Rosenfeld bei 80/20 Again - Critical Architectural Junctures. (via iaslash)

Kürzlich tauchte auf der Apple MPEG4 Seite ein seltsamer Link auf: :k:. Sofort waren Hunderte auf der Suche nach einer Erklärung des Rätsels (siehe spymac und macrumors). Nun scheint man der Lösung schon etwas näher zu sein, es handelt sich um eine neue Kampagne von BMW Films:

"It appears to be a contest of some sort. You have to use the links on the page [www.uncaptheride.com] to find clues and fill in the blanks. I think this is some sort of contest, not one that Apple is running, but that they allowed their page to be hyperlinked to. The first 'clue' asks you to add ".com" to the 'anniversary date'. A check of the creepy photo of the 'file' and the top of the homepage shows 'August 06'. August06.com takes you Nikon's photo album site, where the username 'kann' has been inserted for you; however, the page says that the account has exceeded its limit of visits for the day, so you can't look at the images to find the next clue." und "BMW (Beemer): 2002 is the model of the car, 1974 is the year. my roommate just got a 1972 2002, awesome little car. One of the first true small sports cars made"

"They may seem obvious to you, but less-technical users are frequently stymied by issues like these". (via digital-web)

"... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang." (via langreiter)