Posted in Communication, Internet, Social networks, Technology, Web on April 30th, 2008 No Comments »
I just posted a notion on Twitter. I don’t know what you call that. Twitting? Doesn’t matter …
The notion was this: Twitter is a like a new form of haiku. I rarely understand what I’m reading.
Not that you necessarily need to say something that requires more than 140 characters. Or that it won’t be long […]
Posted in Communication, Technology, User experience, Web on April 29th, 2008 No Comments »
A while ago I posted about the Web getting increasingly annoying. Not surprisingly, in a brief post called Signal to noise, Seth does a much better job of articulating much the same thing. He also has the perfect metaphor: signal to noise.
Even if it was all good, there’s just too much stuff coming through. […]
Posted in Business, Internet, Web on April 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Seth’s post Silly Traffic is worth a read. To use a cliche, it’s a reminder to not sweat the small stuff, in this case as it relates to web sites. Your site may get a lot of traffic, and you may be working your behind off to get that traffic, but it doesn’t necessarily translate […]
Posted in Blogs, Communication, Internet, Web on April 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across Seth’s post Drop the Dot? and mused a bit on the suggestion the post begins with which came from someone who had written to him. The suggestion was, “… that [dot] com is superfluous, just as www is.”
I agreed with Seth’s response, which was:
The suffix is useful, and we’ll have it […]
Posted in Communication, Internet, Social networks, User experience, Web on April 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I was reading a post somewhere about Twitter, followed a few links, saw articles about it being a growing social network phenomenon … the usual malarkey about “the next big thing.”
Of course, I had to check it out.
Mistake.
Having registered and so on, I foolishly said, “Yes, check my email for contacts on Twitter.” The end […]
Posted in Internet, Marketing, Social networks, User experience, Web on December 13th, 2007 3 Comments »
It seemed to take forever for the world of marketing to discover there was an Internet and that a lot of people were to be found there. But discover it they did, finally. And as anyone who has used the Internet over the last few years knows, they’re doing their best to kill this golden […]
Posted in Communication, Language, Usability, User experience, Web Writing, Writing on October 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Yes, another complaint … I’m looking at a schedule for the Edmonton Oilers to see what games are televised and what channels they are on. And I’m seeing acronyms left and right.
Fine. I understand why they are using acronyms. Full names, like Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, take up too much space. Much cleaner to simply have […]
Posted in Internet, Marketing, Social networks, User experience, Web, Web 2.0 on September 8th, 2007 No Comments »
You can only speculate: Are they criminals? Are they stupid? Are they simply business boneheads trying to reach targets and to hell with the consequences? It’s impossible to say unless you work for them but whatever the reasons behind the fiasco that is Quechup, I can say definitively that it is one social networking site […]
Posted in Ontario, Service, ServiceOntario, User experience on August 14th, 2007 No Comments »
So I’m on the phone contacting ServiceOntario. I used their web site but it told me to call them. You see, I need a replacement birth certificate without which I can’t get Medicare in New Brunswick, I can’t get a passport and now, for a real estate thing, I need a birth certificate for the […]
Posted in Copywriting, Language, Marketing, User experience on May 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
The Adobe people are pushing their Adobe Creative Suite 3 these days (for those who love acronyms, aka Adobe CS3). And that’s fine but I find that they, along with many other companies that market using email, send very little content and a whole lot of design.
It’s makes sense in one way, if you’re Adobe, […]
