http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress Design, technology and community Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:10:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am clearly not an important person to Yahoo. Their new Yahoo! Photos site was [previewed in February 2006](http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/08/yahoo-photos-overview-exclusive-screenshots/), went [beta in June 2006](http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/06/07/yahoo-photos-beta-launches-today/), and started getting [rolled out to users in August 2006](http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/17/yahoo-photos-to-leave-beta-today-api-finally-coming/). Me? I didn't get to see the new site design until today. I admit that it ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/reviews/2007/01/design-notes-yahoo-photos This is a problem that's been plaguing me for weeks, and Bloglines customer support helped me straighten everything out, so I thought I would put the solution out there for others to find. The problem I had was that links in Bloglines used to open in a new window. I then ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/weblog/2007/01/links-in-bloglines-do-not-open-in-a-new-window I'm a big fan of Gmail, and I've been looking to offload my mailing list email onto another account, so I setup [Google apps](http://google.com/a/) for my personal domain tonight. When I went to activate the Gmail service, but first I had to switch the MX record for my domain. I ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/weblog/2006/12/google-is-like-magic ### Toward A Better Understanding Of Help Seeking Behavior (Xie, Cool) Notes from the user behavior panel at ASIST 2006. Sources of work on help seeking behavior: * Psychology: Individual Difference * Cognitive Psychology: Form of "Meta Cognition" in the learning process * Education Psychology: Help-seeking from perspective of "interactive learning environments" Mentioned Nass' works; computers ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/weblog/2006/11/users-behavior-asist-2006 Notes and comments on the SIG HCI Research Symposium at ASIST 2006. ### HCI and Meta-search Engines, Amanda Spink and Carolyn Watters Marchionini (1996) showed that there is very little overlap between meta-search engines. They used a dataset from Dogpile.com that sounds a lot like the AOL dataset that was released -- ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/weblog/2006/11/sig-hci-research-symposium I'm in the blogs & wikis workshop at ASIST, I'm speaking in a few minutes, but I also wanted to share my notes. [Wiki page for Blogs & Wikis Workshop on the ASIST 2006 Wiki](http://www.asis.org/wiki/AM06/index.php/Wiki/Blogs_Workshop_Saturday) The first thing we did was introduce ourselves, I added everyone in the audience to the wiki ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/weblog/2006/11/blogs-wikis-for-conference-communication-asist-2006 I'm in Austin for the [ASIS&T 2006 Annual Meeting](http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/). If you're in town and want to find me, you can reach me on my cell at (919) 423-4798 or via email at [jacksonfox@gmail.com](mailto:jacksonfox@gmail.com). I'm curious to try some Texas BBQ, so if anyone wants to get a BBQ outing together, ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/weblog/2006/11/im-at-asist-2006 It's late and I'm not thinking to clearly, but I have a couple of ideas bouncing around in my head that I want to get down so I don't forget about them. ### Inspiration I want to start collecting insprational designs, screens, interface, etc. Back when I used OneNote all the time, ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/weblog/2006/10/late-night-brain-dump Sessions I've attended today: * 10 Ways To A Killer Blog ([Robert](http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/) & [Maryam Scoble](http://maryamie.spaces.live.com/blog/)) * [Learning To Love Chaos](http://mrsun.us/converge/) ([Jim Rosenberg](http://mrsun.us)) Apparently this is the first time the Scoble's have done a presentation together. I only caught the end of their presentation, but what little I did see was impressive. They made ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/weblog/2006/10/at-convergesouth I'm off to [ConvergeSouth](http://convergesouth.com) for some good 'ole southern bloggin'. Sadly, I can only stay for a few hours. I'd love to stay for the after conference activities, but I have obligations in Durham in the evening. Still, it'll be nice to get out of the house for a bit; ... http://jacksonfox.org/wordpress/weblog/2006/10/off-to-convergesouth-in-the-morning