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We’re so not vain: only slightly more than one third of us said this blog is about us

Pew’s latest report Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers is based on phone surveys. Is it me, or is the phone a less than ideal way to ask bloggers what they are thinking? “Telephone surveys capture the most accurate snapshot possible of a small and moving target,” says Pew, but I wonder if [...]

The web is the real world

I am increasingly uncomfortable with IRL (in real life) versus online distinctions, so Joshua Porter’s The Non-collision of Relationship and Independent George post really resonated with me.
Two ideas in particular stood out, here’s the first:

I think the dichotomy of a “digital life” being somehow different from our “real life” is becoming more false every day. [...]

Jakob Nielsen is the Pointy-Haired Boss of Usability

I find the amount of attention Jakob Nielsen attracts somewhat fascinating, where fascination = people slowing down as they drive past the scene of an accident.
He is at it again, predicting that “liberation from search engines will be one of the biggest strategic issues for websites in the coming years” in “Search Engines as Leeches [...]