One of the top spammers in the world (or should that be “bottom”) is a simpering mouthbreather named Scott Richter. Scotty is a criminal-for-hire who is paid by other criminals to violate your rights. If you have an email address, you have probably already been serial raped by Scott Richter. And now this lowlife shitbag… Continue reading Scott Richter is a Lying Scumbag
Year: 2004
Usability Week 2004, Day 5
Exploring email newsletter usability, and the benefits of confirmed opt-in.
The Problem with Nielsen (UW2k4, Day 4)
I admit I have never read any of Jakob Nielsen’s books, only a few of his articles online, and the ensuing angry reactions they incite from the design community. And I never really understood what the big deal was. Sure he comes across as a bit of a pompous ass, but the majority of his… Continue reading The Problem with Nielsen (UW2k4, Day 4)
Usability Week 2004, Day 3
More of same. More graphs. More statistics. More information of no value in my day-to-day work. And more doodles. Actually, I did glean a bit of actual interesting information today, but it was barely mentioned in passing so I pretty much latched onto it by accident. Somewhere in the middle of the presentation on usability… Continue reading Usability Week 2004, Day 3
Usability Week 2004, Day 2
Today was more of the same. Lots of theory, lots of procedural guidelines, little or no actual principles to put into practice. This seminar is intended for “usability professionals,” i.e., people whose job it is to test systems for usability and report on their findings. It is not for the designers and developers who then… Continue reading Usability Week 2004, Day 2
Usability Week 2004, Day 1
This week I’m attending Usability Week, a 5-day usability boot camp put on by the Nielsen Normal Group. As in Jakob Nielsen. Day 1 was a pretty low-level overview, covering the science of usability and going into some procedural detail about how to perform usability testing. Quite honestly, it was nothing I didn’t know already… Continue reading Usability Week 2004, Day 1
Bureaucrats Finally Starting to Get It
A few things happened this week in the fight against invasive marketing. Foremost is the announcement that the very first arrests under the federal CAN-SPAM act have been made. Arrest warrants were issued for four spammers in the Detroit area on the grounds that they sent fraudulent emails hawking weight loss pills, though two of… Continue reading Bureaucrats Finally Starting to Get It
FP!
Well, ok, it’s not really the First Post in the most technical sense, but it’s the first truly NEW post since the change of venue. I still have some more old stuff to add in, but first I’ll need to get the archiving sorted out. The left-side menu is already an unweildy height (especially on… Continue reading FP!
Impending site overhaul update: Overhauled
Update: 4.29.04 As you may have guessed if you’re reading this now, the relaunch has occured and I’m now in a spiffy new weblog format. Still plenty of kinks to iron out, numerous css bugs to address (many in IE, no surprise) and old content to be imported, but here it is. I’ll be fiddling… Continue reading Impending site overhaul update: Overhauled
The Page 23 Meme
For the past few days a meme has been spreading through most of the design blogs I read. I first saw it on Asterisk, then it spread to Hicks, Inman, Stopdesign, Binary Bonsai, Airbag and many others. In a few short days it has overrun this segment of the weblogging community (I refuse to use… Continue reading The Page 23 Meme