Information Maven: Greg Meyer

Finding, capturing, and categorizing information (and trying to make sense of it).

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Entries from October 2005

Jakob Nielsen’s 10 rules for blogs.

October 17th, 2005 · No Comments

Jakob Nielsen’s article Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes misses the point of blogs. His summary, that
Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author….
misses the point of why I write.
Nielsen expects me to include a […]

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Superheroes, and knitting?

October 17th, 2005 · No Comments

Leave it to the Internet to provide me with a dose of daily, weird information. And wonderful, I might add.

Mark Newport knits superhero costumes, and seeing them in a gallery makes one think of the space that mythic figures occupy in our lives, even if we don’t see them in the flesh, […]

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Soviet Computer Junque

October 9th, 2005 · No Comments

It’s nifty to see the relics of the Soviet computer age.

This site, detailing Eastern European computers, makes me nostalgic for the TI99-4A and TRS80 computers of my youth. But these are neater, clunkier, and more colorful.
Enjoy.

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