Ok, so I’ve decided to get on the last.fm boat. Why do you ask did it take me so long? Well, when I started using it again I remembered why. Simply, I don’t think I like it. I am a big fan of the Pandora project and prefer that to almost any online music application. [...]
Entries from May 2008
Usability and last.fm Pt. 1
May 17th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: design · IA · last.fm · scenarios · tasks · UI · usability · UX · webdesign
Just so there’s no confusing fact with fiction when watching “Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”…
May 12th, 2008 No Comments
This was recently posted to the Museum Securities Network Mailing-list re-posted from the Times Online UK, so I’ve decided to post it yet again for you guys to read:
Secrets of the crystal skulls are lost in the mists of forgery
With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull about to erupt across our cinema [...]
Tags: archaeology · art · aztec · forgery · mesoamerica · pre-columbian
UNC Library & Information Science Video Series
May 10th, 2008 No Comments
This is a series of lectures and interviews at UNC-Chapel Hill on topics related to information and library science and the use of information in learning and research.
Permalink: UNC Information in Life Series on Youtube
Tags: archives · digitization · information · instruction · IR · metadata · tutorials · UI
Thoughts on Bates’ Berrypicking
May 8th, 2008 No Comments
Bates, M. J. (1989). The design of browsing and berry-picking techniques for online search interface. Online Review, 13, 407-424.
“The human natural tendency in information seeking is to fallback on passive and sampling and selecting behaviors derived from millions of years of [evolution]” [1]
–Marcia J. Bates
Today, the relationship between information retrieval (IR) and [...]
Tags: berrypicking · findability · information · IR · personas
