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One insight Neilsen missed in his great post on reducing bounce rates is the fact that if your site provides content that answers a question you are very likely to see a high bounce rate as users a...
“Making a microsite or game does you no good if there’s no method—emails, blogs, press, ads, anything else—for consumers to find it, experience it, or link to it.” - Danny G, Interactive Agencies a...
“The value of a perk is inversely related to the expectation of that perk.” - Seth’s Blog: When you least expect it (via fred-wilson)
“As with all quantitative methods, Web analytics is a dangerous game. If you measure the wrong thing, your metrics won’t just be weak — they’ll be directly misleading and might cause you to pursue ...
Vanity Fair BLOGOPTICON Quadrant Chart
Peter Doig’s work is so beautiful. Haunting.
I can’t tell if this Google Adsense ad is genuis or not.But I did click on it.It’s always been a secret dream to run the most absurd ad as well as the most researched, strategic ad and test.My gues...
Though we’ve all seen a million examples of contextual advertising gone horribly wrong.Is it worth the risk to think all our research and strategy can “perfectly target” when that target could be r...
“Here is a theory. Top athletes are compelling because they embody the comparison-based achievement we Americans revere - fastest, strongest - and because they do so in a totally unambiguous way. Q...
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings: Jakob Nielson’s recent eyetracking research confirms what we all already know: people are good at ignoring display ads. The ads subjects did look at fell int...
“The problem isn’t the widgets - it’s the introduction of noise into your otherwise strong signal.” - chasgrundy, in reply to Why Widgets Is The Wrong Word For What We’re Doing
The growing penetration of service like Tivo, OnDemand, Internet and DVD television has led many to argue for the death of the 30 sec spot. Of course may have posited their own arguments against th...
“Pleasure reading is also known as “ludic reading.” Victor Nell has studied pleasure reading (PDF). Two fascinating notions:1) When we like a text, we read more slowly.2) When we’re really engaged ...
“I tend to take a lot of meetings that others might feel are unproductive. And they often are unproductive for me. But there is a lot of serendipity in this world and you never know when an unprodu...
Is Google Making Us Stupid?: via catbird:Here’s the short answer, since you won’t actually read the article because it’s 4 pages long: Yeah, probably
Is Google Making Us Stupid?: via catbird: Here’s the short answer, since you won’t actually read the article because it’s 4 pages long: Yeah, probably
How the Web Was Won: 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of ARPA and Vanity Fair celebrates with an oral history of the Internet.
“Physical restrictions on cultural access in the pre-digital era not only created fan communities by necessity, but also influenced the politics of the end product.” - Ryan Bigge, Can subcultures s...
“The solution, rather, is learning to “let the bits go” - so that one can be online constantly, or twice a day, or anything in between. Practicing bit literacy allows you to work whenever and where...
TechnoTheory points to an article at Everyday Systems that has coined the perfect phrase: Weekend Luddite.Luddites, historically, were craftsman who railed against the growing technology that threa...
TechnoTheory points to an article at Everyday Systems that has coined the perfect phrase: Weekend Luddite. Luddites, historically, were craftsman who railed against the growing technology that thre...
Excited to go to SEED tomorrow. Looking forward to more counter-intuitive wisdom from 37signals, Coudal et al. Made use of some of that advice recently when an “emergency” conference call between a...
Excited to go to SEED tomorrow. Looking forward to more counter-intuitive wisdom from 37signals, Coudal et al.Made use of some of that advice recently when an “emergency” conference call between ab...
re-posting Things looking up — mostly from twitterstatus: “In the last 36hrs, we’ve had 99.4% uptime (according to Pingdom), which is not where we want to be, but is a heck of a lot better than t...
re-posting Things looking up — mostly from twitterstatus:“In the last 36hrs, we’ve had 99.4% uptime (according to Pingdom), which is not where we want to be, but is a heck of a lot better than the...
@jack Presents Twitter: And don’t miss @Biz and @ev talking to Fast Company.
In 2003 I visited Haus der Kunst art museum in Munich. I don’t remember anything I saw on the walls there, but I do recall being enthralled by the surfers in the River Eisbach (literally “ice brook...
In 2003 I visited Haus der Kunst art museum in Munich. I don’t remember anything I saw on the walls there, but I do recall being enthralled by the surfers in the River Eisbach (literally “ice brook...
Following up on my recent post on how SPAM deteriates validity we have a new service: RickProof. Just enter a suspect URL, check the RickGauge™ and surf Rick-risk free.
“They are equipping billboards with tiny cameras that gather details about passers-by—their gender, approximate age and how long they looked at the billboard.” - Billboards That Look Back, The New ...
So Web 2.0 is “web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users (wikipedia).” The whole sort of emerged after comments by Tim O’Reilly r...
So Web 2.0 is “web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users (wikipedia).” The whole sort of emerged after comments by Tim O’Reilly r...
Telegraphese is characterized by structures smaller than a grammatically complete sentence in Standard English. Their use, and name, derived from the fact that the telegraph charged per word or som...
Telegraphese is characterized by structures smaller than a grammatically complete sentence in Standard English. Their use, and name, derived from the fact that the telegraph charged per word or som...
N.B. I like what TECH Cocktail is doing and support anything that promotes the local (Chicago) tech scene. This is simply my opinions on the TECH Cocktail Conference that happened on 30 May 2008. ...
N.B. I like what TECH Cocktail is doing and support anything that promotes the local (Chicago) tech scene. This is simply my opinions on the TECH Cocktail Conference that happened on 30 May 2008. 8...
Common Craft delights with a new video: Social Media in Plain English. (If you missed Twitter in Plain English check it out too. Like now!)
“The problem with hype is that it transforms the use value of a would-be work of art into its exchange value.” - “The Hype Cycle”, n+1
What I really hate about spam is how is that it can be so good at making noise look like signal that you start to filter out the stuff you really want. Recently I threw away a credit card I was wai...
What I really hate about spam is how is that it can be so good at making noise look like signal that you start to filter out the stuff you really want. Recently I threw away a credit card I was wai...
“As an industry, we’re awfully good (and by good I mean bad) at bastardizing or perverting pretty much any natural and pure expression of engagement, influence, authenticity or passion.” - Joseph J...
“Media companies still look on the internet as a content platform. That is, they think of it as a new broadcast medium. Most other folks recognize that the internet is a communications medium, and ...
Delightful post re: Why you should target Wall Street brokers as samurais.: From the good folks at Advertising for Peanuts.
“Exercise in expressing oneself in different ways will be of considerable importance in general for the acquisition of - Desiderius Erasmus, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style
