Jackson Fox

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 […]

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, […]

Toward A Better Understanding Of Help Seeking Behavior (Xie, Cool)

Notes from the user behavior panel at ASIST 2006.

Notes and comments on the SIG HCI Research Symposium at 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

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.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

If you haven’t heard, the Google Reader team just released a complete overhaul of the Reader UI. I wasn’t a big fan of the previous interface, though I imagine it would have been nice enough with a small number of feeds. So how does the new interface match up to the current champion, Bloglines?