Industrial-Strength Stupidity In America. Now that the speculation on the cause of the blackouts seems to be abating in the mainstream media, I wanted to bring up a topic of concern regarding what has become an epidemic of short-term thinking in America. The cause… [Third Party WatchBlog]

Midwesterners Are Newer to tthis Internet Thing. Regional Differences Abound in Internet Use, Study Finds “Midwesterners, the study found, go online most often to read news. Northeasterners, more than residents in other parts of the country, use the Web primarily for shopping. Those in the South log on at the lowest rate among the nation's… Continue reading Midwesterners Are Newer to tthis Internet Thing

Mobile Advertising. GoogleAds have made me a believer again in online advertising. I'm making a few hundred dollars a month from text ads on a site that gets only about 10,000 unique users a month. But that's nuuuuthing. I know someone who's made more well more than $10,000 in google ads in the same time… Continue reading Mobile Advertising

Good Times. “IT professionals largely rejected genuine internet email, going with Microsoft instead. They would have you believe that the problems with Outlook/Exchange are inherent, that Exchange is a necessity, that companies could not do without it, that plain old POP/SMTP/IMAP could not suffice.” [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

Report: Internet Service Providers. ATT WorldNet apparently will unblock Port 25 on request [MacInTouch]

A Study on the Virtual Law Library. Feasibility and Viability of the Digital Library in a Private Law Firm – “The authors reveal the results of a… [beSpacific]

Urbane Planning. Company of Friends member Christian Young recently emailed the Knowledge Management CoF about the work of UK-based David Gurteen. A recent entry in Gurteen's blog caught my eye. Gurteen brings up the idea of a knowledge city … [Fast Company Now]

MSN Messenger Lockdown Started. Microsoft is locking third parties out of its MSN Messenger service on October 15th by changing the service so that only its latest version of the official MSN Messenger can connect. I use Fire which is a multi-service chat client… [An Architect's View]

Kuniavsky in the house. Adaptive Path's Mike Kuniavsky has started a blog over at Orange Cone, and that reminded me of all the links I've been saving up about his new book Observing the User Experience. Ian Alexander's practical review compares OtUE with Designing Collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to Ethnography. Crafting a User Research… Continue reading Kuniavsky in the house

Free Forrester Paper – web usability downfalls; personas; more. Forrester Research has made their TechStrategy Brief Web Sites Continue to Fail the Usability Test available for guest users on the site. For the price of your time signing up for a guest account, you'll get a 7 page article they would normally charge $200 or… Continue reading Free Forrester Paper – web usability downfalls; personas; more