Jackson Fox

Taking photos of whiteboards and emailing them to myself at work.

SES day 2 wasn’t quite as interesting as day 1, but it had its moments. We met a Lulu fan, though how she knew we were from Lulu I don’t know (the conference badges had your affiliation printed rather annoyingly small) — I don’t meet a lot of people who know about Lulu, so when […]

So I would say my first day of the conference went well. The sessions were pretty good, particularly a lunchtime Q&A with three Google engineers and an afternoon session on search behavior (including eye tracking studies from Enquiro).

We celebrated with a fantastic meal at Mesa Grill.

I missed the Ask.com Code Red party (ok, I’m […]

I am attending Search Engine Strategies 2006 in New York City this week (actually, just Monday and Tuesday).

Rick Cecil (Motricity): President Abe Crystal (SILS): Vice President Janey Barnes (user-view): Treasurer Gershom Rogers (Cisco/SILS): Secretary

Notes from the meeting which I was sadly unable to attend.

I don’t think the FeedLounge guys ever sleep. Every comment I’ve made about the site (on this site or in the FeedLounge forums) has been answered with amazing speed. Sadly, I think FeedLounge just isn’t for me. It sounds like pagination isn’t going away and that marking all items as read on viewing isn’t coming […]

Dave Winer:

Hello. Earth to developers. You’re not supposed to take features out. Products are supposed to bloat, not disappear.

I think the world would be a better place if more developers would start taking features out of their software. I recently abandoned my experiments with the Eclipse editor because it has too many features. […]

I just posted a comment on Designing for the Sandbox about lab usability versus remote testing on the web, and I wanted to expound a little more.

Rafe Colburn brings up a scary thought:

If I fear that any CD I buy will silently install a bunch of crap on my computer, Apple’s DRM doesn’t sound quite so bad. At least I know what I’m getting.

I hadn’t realized it until I read this, but I honestly fear buying CDs these days. […]

More weird spam. This time weblog comment spam where every link (all 500 of them) was tagged as “nofollow.”