- Articles of varying length, but usually about interesting topics:
The Guardian The art of slow reading Has endlessly skimming short texts on the internet made us stupider? , July 15, 2010
Monocle Lessons learnt from the iPad, April 2, 2010
All Things Considered What's The Allure Of Tablet Computers? (NPR radio show; 4 minutes audio clip), January 25, 2010
New York Times M.T.A. to Unveil a Makeover of Its Web Home, January 11, 2010
Financial Times If granny would disapprove, don’t put it on the net, July 13, 2009
PC Pro Recipe for a billion-dollar website, July 15, 2008
BusinessWeek Apple Goes Corporate, March 4, 2008
NPR Are you feeling lucky? Google is, November 19, 2007
BusinessWeek Gunning for Google, October 8, 2007
Financial Times In-house internet aims to recapture staff attention, October 1, 2007
Red Herring Taking on Google: Is Semantic Technology the Answer?, September 21, 2007
Portfolio Bloomberg's terminals make big bucks. But the displays still look like MS-DOS, July 9, 2007
National Public Radio Apple's iPhone: It All Depends on the Keypad (article, plus link to radio program), June 25, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle Apple's iPhone will change the very nature of mobile communications, June 25, 2007
Wall Street Journal Marketers Seek a Banner-Blindness Cure, June 20, 2007
BusinessWeek The Coming Virtual Web, April 16, 2007
BusinessWeek The Face of the $100 Laptop, March 1, 2007
News.com The human factor in gadget, Web design, February 12, 2007
ABC News New Tech Puts Online Ad Measures to Test: New Web techniques throw into question long-standing yardstick for gauging ad displays, February 9, 2007
InternetNews Apple's Little Computer Announcement, January 10, 2007
Newsweek Moving Into a New Office, December 4, 2006
Fortune Small Business Play Big, November 1, 2006
BusinessWeek MySpace For Baby Boomers (about Eons.com), October 16, 2006
New York Times Adding On to the House of Google (about Eons.com), October 10, 2006
Computerworld GUI Gets a Makeover and GUI Gaffs, September 25, 2006
CNN How Google can make - or break - your company, September 1, 2006
Fox News Google Testing Search Engine for the Blind, July 21, 2006
One more comment on the new Google search: similar ideas will be an important trend for all search engines in the future, as they judge how usable a site is to mainstream users, not just users with disabilities. For search to continue its growth, it has to emphasize getting people to those sites that help them the most, not just the sites that are theoretically the most relevant, even if they are too difficult to use.
- Red Herring Amazon's A9 Mystery, February 13, 2006
- Computerworld Novell tweaks Linux for better graphics, video performance: It's hoping to make the OS more palatable to mainstream computer users, February 7, 2006
- SDTimes With Rich Internet Apps, You Can’t Mix Metaphors, October 1, 2005
- BusinessWeek For the Blind, a Welcoming Web, October 27, 2004
- Baltimore Sun Newsletters revisit ownership stake, July 19, 2004
- New Scientist Polite computers win users' hearts and minds
, July 17, 2004
- Computing Non-technical internet security is the key, July 2004
- BusinessWeek Big Bang! Digital convergence is finally happening, June 12, 2004
- New York Times Pssst, Computer Users . . . Want Some Candy? (about password security), April 25, 2004
- Internet Works How to be a Trendspotter, April 2004
- Computerworld Technology tools are helping companies monitor their reputations on the Internet, April 5, 2004
- CIO The CIO Web Transaction Diet, April 2004
- Baseline Gotcha! The Problems With Self-Service Checkout Systems, February 5, 2004
- BtoB Demos enhance sales, February 2004
- USA Today Simplicity rarely standard on the newest electronics, January 26, 2004
- BtoB Getting visitor feedback, December 8, 2003
- Sydney Morning Herald Macs vs PCs, October 10, 2003
-
ZDNet Developers gripe about IE standards inaction, October 9, 2003
-
Salon E-mail is broken (subscription required), October 2, 2003
- New York Times Net Profiling Lures Advertisers, June 16, 2003 (also in the Straits Times where archives may be easier to access)
- New York Times Signs of a Revival for Online Ads, May 5, 2003
- News.com New online ads squeeze news pages, April 21, 2003
- News.com Victor: Software empire pays high price (the history of the Web browser), April 15, 2003
- Silicon Valley Business Ink Hewlett-Packard tops survey of customer service among technology companies, April 11, 2003
- Sydney Morning Herald Conference lines (about videoconferencing), March 25, 2003
- USA Today Hello, tech designers? This stuff is too small, March 3, 2003
- USA Today AOL Time Warner tightens ties, February 5, 2003
- TechWeb Putting A Bad Interface On Things, January 17, 2003
- ABC News Once-Mighty AOL Slipping Behind the Times, January 14, 2003
- Editor & Publisher Newspaper Outsiders Offer Tips for Web Sites, January 9, 2003
- Wall St. Journal Thinking Small, December 12, 2002 (paid subscription required for access)
- USA Today Online shopping now a better fit, December 3, 2002
- The five deadly sins of unused software, Darwin, June 2002
- Help Wanted: The Papers Fight Back, Newsweek, June 10, 2002
- Employees See a Need For Cellphone Manners, Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2002
- Tongue Tied: Speech still not ready for the Web, Darwin, May 7, 2002
- Interactive TV: The big kludge, ZDNet, May 6, 2002
- Pittman faces hard-sell ad dilemma, News.com, April 19, 2002
- New Flood of For-Fee Web Services May Find Few Willing Customers, Wall St. Journal, April 8, 2002 (paid subscription required for access)
- A key technology for online profitability (about personalization), Financial Times, April 3, 2002
- Online ads may soon take over your browser, USA Today, April 2, 2002
- Technology in America, PC Magazine, March 12, 2002
- Miss the Web's early days? Use this time machine to visit!, ZDNet, February 15, 2002
- 10 top technologies for 2002, CFO Europe, Dec. 2001 /Jan. 2002
- Dot-gov by design, Federal Computer Week, December 10, 2001
- Dashing through the store is easy online, USA Today, December 5, 2001
- Technology slump rooted in high-tech overload, The Sun,
Nov. 15, 2001
- Microsoft deal fails to ensure public has choice, The Independent (London), Nov. 8, 2001
- E-business Convergence: The Melding of Internet and Intranet, Intranet Journal, Nov. 7, 2001
- Demo show rounds up the latest in wireless wonders, USA Today, September 12, 2001
- Instant messengers pick up speed, San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 1, 2001
- Web Sites That Work, Information Week,
Aug. 27 2001
- Grow Your Site, Keep Your Users (about eBay's redesign), Computerworld, June 4, 2001
- The free ride is over on Internet sites, San Jose Mercury News, May 20, 2001
- High-tech quest for a user-friendly Web, USA Today, May 15, 2001 (also in San Jose Mercury News as Web surfers hunt like animals, researchers find)
- Portals at forefront of intranet evolution, InfoWorld, April 30, 2001
- Scents and sensibility, The Economist, April 26, 2001
- Gadgets offering 'convergence' show whole can be less than sum of parts, Wall Street Journal, April 25, 2001
- Design Darwinism, The Economist, April 12, 2001
- Internet sites offer their visitors real sense of place, USA Today, April 11, 2001
- Humans take center stage on computer design, San Jose Mercury News, April 5, 2001
- New tolls on the info highway: The Internet starts facing the reality of a free-lunchless world, U.S. News & World Report, April 9, 2001
- Someone Has to Pay the Freight, BusinessWeek, March 26, 2001
- Usability is the next challenge for the Net, The Independent (London), March 21, 2001
- Thinking Outside the Box - The End-User View of Techo-Nirvana: Blink, Blink, Blink, Washington Post, March 19, 2001
- Online Companies' Customer Service Is Hardly a Priority, New York Times, February 19, 2001
- Right idea at the right time (Swatch's Internet strategy), The Industry Standard, January 31, 2001
- From Ballots to Cockpits, Questions of Design, New York Times, January 23, 2001
- Mobile markets fall flat for many consumers, CNet, January 18, 2001
- Betamax of telephones: WAP phones are slow to access the internet and will be overtaken by competitors, Financial Times, January 16, 2001
- The net on trial, Sunday Times, January 14, 2001
- Web Advertisers Rethink Strategy (RealAudio), National Public Radio, Morning Edition, January 4, 2001
- Plenty Wrong With WAP, Newsweek, December 18, 2000
- Screen Wars: The folks who gave PCs mice and menus are back with some new tricks, Newsweek, December 11, 2000
- Hold the Bells and Whistles:
Think broadband will blaze a trail to a more exciting, multimedia Web? Think again, Business 2.0, November 28, 2000
- Vote glitches highlight the need for simplicity,
Boston Globe, November 24, 2000
- E-Tailers Transfer Shelf Space Into Cyberspace, AdWeek, November 6, 2000
- When Competitors Are Partners, How Bare Do They Dare?, New York Times, October 25, 2000
- Yahoo Beats Estimates, Takes Baby Step in Voice Services, Internet World, October 10, 2000
- Online Publishers Learn to Love Micro-Payments -- a Little, Inside, October 10, 2000
- The £340 Blackberry becomes the must-have gadget of the moment, The Independent, October 5, 2000
- Small Fortunes: The Technology's Here - But Are Net Businesses Ready To Use It?, Internet World, October 1, 2000
- Salon Spinoff Reportedly in the Works, Inside, September 27, 2000
- Major Retailers Hope Audio Will Improve E-Commerce, Internet World, September 26, 2000
- Numbed by Numbers, New York Times, September 21, 2000
- Mobile Internet Products May Have Missed Their Target (report from DEMOmobile'2000), Los Angeles Times, September 11, 2000
- Web site offers reviews of local businesses, Denver Post, August 17, 2000
- Microsoft Sees Software 'Agent' as Way to Avoid Distractions, The New York Times, July 17, 2000 (access to the Times requires free registration - but worth it: great article on attentional interfaces)
- New 'Reputation Managers' Earn Trust in Cyberspace, Wall St. Journal, July 17, 2000 (access to WSJ.com requires paid subscription)
- VCR clocks tell time again, San Jose Mercury News, July 14, 2000
- Orange's net vision, BBC, July 14, 2000
- Bursting The WAP Bubble, Africa News Online, July 14, 2000
- Disability Divide: Finding unexpected barriers online, many Internet users are pushing companies to make good on the promise of universal access, The Industry Standard, June 26, 2000
- A Web Coup for FireDrop's Cloak-and-Dagger Man?, BusinessWeek, June 14, 2000
- Staples Reinvents its Website, ComputerWorld, June 12, 2000
- Browser Bashers, Forbes, May 15, 2000
- Do cryptic sites equal lost opportunities?, UPSIDE, April 28, 2000
- Journalism basics still needed in cyberspace, educators told, Freedom Forum, April 21, 2000
- Read all about it: the growing possibilities for ebooks, The Irish Times, April 10, 2000
- Throbbing e-mail - It's alive: Can a Zaplet tame your bloated inbox?, Salon, April 5, 2000
- Clued In? Sign On! (about the
Cluetrain Manifesto), Fast Company, March 2000
- Does Web link or isolate us?, The Beacon Journal, February 18, 2000
- Your First $20 Free!, Scientific American, February 2000
- Let's Get Small, The Industry Standard, January 21, 2000
- Making it click, Canadian Business, January 2000
- Santa Flaws:
Why shoppers aren't having a very merry dot.com Christmas.
Forbes, December 27, 1999
- Closing the
Windows on MS, WIRED News, November 27, 1999
- The
Unbearable Speed of Being, The Industry Standard, October 1999
- GE touts
automated customer support in bricks-to-clicks moveInfoWorld, October 11, 1999
- Superhuman
Speech Machine, Wired News, October 2, 1999
- Wanted:
Better Job Listings, Business Week, September 20, 1999
- AOL
Struggles to Stand Out in Cyber-Crowd, The Denver Post
(originally from Los Angeles Times,
September 6, 1999; also in Nando
Times)
- Portal Pretense:
The recent splurge on portal exposure has left many ecommerce companies
searching for a new life, Business 2.0, September 1999
- Intranet 'done on
the cheap', The Press (New Zealand), August 31, 1999
- Amazon.com feature
fuels privacy fears, USA Today, August 26, 1999
- Digital Radar:
E-Books, New Media Magazine, August 1999
- Closing
the Distance: Instant Messaging Is Talk of Online World,
Washington Post, July 6, 1999
- Learning to write for
the Web, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 27, 1999
- Silicon Spin
with John C. Dvorak (TV Show), June 10, 1999
- Cyborg
Dreaming, Village Voice, June 2, 1999
- Making The
Internet Accessible For Disabled, TechWeb, May 25, 1999
- I'm gonna sue
your ass!, Red Herring, May 1999
- The
Question of Web Reach: Dueling Columnists, IT Manager's
Journal, May 18, 1999
- AltaVista to Sell Advertisers Spots in
Search Lists, Washington Post, April 16, 1999
- The missing millions... or how to win women
to the Web, The Guardian (U.K.), April 15, 1999
- Untangling
the habits of Web users, USA Today, April 14, 1999
- Internet Retailers Hide True Costs of
Purchases, The New York Times, April 5, 1999
- Gates'
Efforts as Management Guru Misfire in New Book, Los Angeles
Times, March 29, 1999 (also in The Denver Post)
- New software to
block on-line ads, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,
March 12, 1999 (RealVideo format)
- Animating
the Ad, The Industry Standard, February 15, 1999
- The
Net's Brand-New Brand, The Industry Standard, February 12, 1999
- Online, the Customer
Isn't Always Right, The New York Times, January 12, 1999
- '99: A Year to Make Good on
Electronic Commerce, The New York Times, December 29, 1998
- Web
sites cater to connections in 1999 (by offering different visitor
experiences based on bandwidth), InfoWorld, December
23, 1998
- Finding
a Language for the Web: Online Gurus Debate Internet Grammar,
Editor & Publisher, November 13, 1998
- New-media
gurus find cyber punctuation ... a slippery proposition,
ZDNN, November 12, 1998
- 24-hour
Medium With 18-hour Staffing, Editor & Publisher,
October 5, 1998
- New view to a kill (about virtual
reality), The Guardian (U.K.), September 17, 1998
- A
legitimate stab in the dark, The Ottawa Citizen September
9, 1998 (about outsourced Web services)
- Look
ma, no ink!, Salon Magazine, September 2, 1998
- Linux,
an Alternative to Microsoft Windows, Shows Value of Free Software,
Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1998 (access to the LA
Times archives requires payment)
- Making Your Web Site Accessible: Barriers (and How to Remove
Them), Seybold Report, July 15, 1998
- Top 5 Web Authoring Lies,
Ziff-Davis AnchorDesk, June 18, 1998
- Annette's Internet
Speedometer: How Fast Is It Really Growing?, Ziff-Davis
AnchorDesk, May 27, 1998
- Why
we don't get the full picture on frames, Sydney Morning
Herald, May 26, 1998
- Is
there a special way to write for a Web page?, Yahoo! Internet
Life, Surf Guru column, May 18, 1998
- The
simpler Web gets the user, Sydney Morning Herald, March
31, 1998
- How to
Make Visitors Love Your Site, Ziff-Davis AnchorDesk, March
20, 1998
- Lego-like assembly can make Web apps a snap, PC
Week, January 12, 1998
- Promising
Web tools require new thinking, about XML, Dan Gillmor's column,
San Jose Mercury News, December 7, 1997
- Award
Winners: Our Editors Present the top Corporate Websites,
Fortune Magazine Technology Buyer's Guide Winter 1998
- Top 25
Executives: No. 1, Scott McNealy, Computer Reseller News
November 17, 1997
- Time
for print to recognize Web as part of its future, MacWeek
October 2, 1997
- Trying
to Make a Connection (about Web advertising), Los Angeles
Times September 29, 1997 (access to the LA Times
archives is limited to paying subscribers)
- Making
the Web a Friendly Place to Visit, The New York Times July
27, 1997 (site access requires user registration)
- Taking
Computers to Task:
Coming generations of computers will be more fun and engaging to use. But
will they earn their keep in the workplace?, the relation between
computer technology and user productivity, Scientific
American, July 1997
- Animation
as Decoration and Communication -- How to grab attention and
deliver your message with the same animation, NetGuide
Magazine, June 1997
- Corporate
rebels, WIRED Magazine May 1997
- Download
times take another bite, The Globe and Mail of Canada, May
1997
- Lifestreams,
about temporal UI metaphors, WIRED Magazine February 1997
- Report
from the WWW'5 Conference, Publish Magazine August
1996
- Do
Fatter Browsers Spell Extinction?, Interactive Week July
1996
- Software's
holy grail:
No-fuss clicking is what consumers need most, BusinessWeek
June 1996
- Finding the
Right Art Talent for Your Site's Needs, WebWeek April
1996
- The Internet is
starting to grow up, EE Times June 1995
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