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:: Friday, March 19, 2004 ::

Usability Techniques and Gurus On Fire, and Under Fire

I bet Jakob Nielsen is feeling a bit like Disney's Michael Eisner - unloved, unappreciated, misunderstood, and about to be hung by his toes.

Exhibit A: An open letter to Jakob Nielsen
     "I would dare say you are doing far more harm than you are doing good, and I ask that you cease this behavior."

Meanwhile, a little thing like Breadcrumb navigation has been the topic of disagreement.

Exhibit B: Things between Peter Merholz and Mark Hurst heat up (again) in The Joy Of Navigation Design
     "Had I clicked down through the site, this all might not have been as much of an issue, but when I found myself on a page deep within the AIGA's labyrinth, care of Google, I was totally disoriented."

     "You've set up a false dichotomy between breadcrumb links and the Page Paradigm. If you are visiting the site with a goal, and using the Back button when things don't pan out, your usage fits right in."

Other:

Hot on the heels of its new Cre8asite Resource Library, Cre8asiteForums proudly announces its new blog:

Cre8tive Flow



SERoundtable has added a new feature to their blog. Since the main objective is to provide coverage of hot threads and topics from all the leading SEO oriented forums, Barry Schwartz (RustyBrick) has added an RSS feed that pulls in latest threads from several of them, and updates every 30 minutes.

Winners of the The Bloggies were chosen March 15. Scroll down for a bit to find the The Web Blog Awards winners on the left side. Nice place to see how others blog.

More rank nonsense for the page rank obsessed. Yahoo!'s WebRank. Blech.

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 3/19/2004 03:42:16 PM

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