Jackson Fox

Design Notes: Yahoo! Photos

I am clearly not an important person to Yahoo. Their new Yahoo! Photos site was previewed in February 2006, went beta in June 2006, and started getting rolled out to users in August 2006. Me? I didn’t get to see the new site design until today. I admit that it could have gone live some [...]

Links in Bloglines do not open in a new window

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 set Firefox to open links [...]

Google Is Like Magic

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 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 have very little DNS experience, [...]

Users Behavior (ASIST 2006)

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 as social actors, utilizing aspects of social interaction in [...]

SIG HCI Research Symposium (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 — if the AOL dataset had been [...]

Blogs & Wikis For Conference Communication (ASIST 2006)

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

The first thing we did was introduce ourselves, I added everyone in the audience to the wiki page. Shanshan Ma from Drexel [...]

I’m at ASIS&T 2006

I’m in Austin for the ASIS&T 2006 Annual Meeting. 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. I’m curious to try some Texas BBQ, so if anyone wants to get a BBQ outing together, get in touch.

Late night brain dump

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, I would save interesting screenshots. Alas, [...]

At ConvergeSouth

Sessions I’ve attended today:

10 Ways To A Killer Blog (Robert & Maryam Scoble) Learning To Love Chaos (Jim Rosenberg)

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 a concerted effort to get the audience [...]

Off to ConvergeSouth in the morning

I’m off to ConvergeSouth 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; I’ve been layed up with [...]