Towards adaptive Web sites: conceptual framework and case study
Too often Web site designs are fossils cast in HTML
An interesting look at using usage data to reorganize index pages which seems somewhat out of touch with the data driven nature of popular websites. It does push the grail of automated adaption, as opposed to the clunky customization of my.portal.com.
11/3/1999 7:39:47 PM



WWW 8 proceedings are online and include lots of neat stuff, especially regarding improving the browsing interface by link augmentation, et al.
4:58:57 AM



Silk from a Sow's Ear: Extracting Usable Structures from the Web is a particulary interesting example from the collection below combining structural analysis with usage data.
11/2/1999 6:04:40 PM



IR and IE on the Web -- Selected Publications covers a variety of topics hot in both internet business and weblogs. There's a great deal of potential for rich information structures to be derived from document similarity measures and link cross tabulation as well as more explicit human collaborative/aggregated commentary.
6:00:33 PM



A Day in the Life (PDF research report) of 10 internet users. Users spend 17% of their time scrolling on average, and 1/6 of the time, even with ethernet, waiting for pages to load. Even the back button takes an average of 5 seconds to execute.

8:23:48 AM



I've always said RealNetworks was evil due to their slimy hiding of the free version of their software and upgrade strong arming. The latest hubbub confirms!
11/1/1999 7:56:12 PM



blogger.com is my new tool for logging - the contextual menu for IE (win only methinks) rivals my ocha/frontier shared menu (Frontier mac). Now, if blogger had categorical typing of entries, life would be dandy.
7:49:17 PM



I've been thinking more about real world design lately. The introduction of a new office building into the daily routine has left me wishing for subtle design features in big sets of elevators which indicate where in the physical layout a particular elevator is. You should be able to tell, in the elevator, what position you're in relative to the lobby and the entrance. This should be, preferably, a feature of the design as opposed to a schematic.

In other design news, my grand scheme for giving designers feedback on their pages (and webs - information architecture) - the mouselogger project - is underway. The idea is to aggregate over fraction of a second mouse position logs to provide a visual topography of mouse action over time superimposed on a page. Screenshots to come!
7:47:41 PM



I started my what's new page to detail my independent web publishing efforts 11/97 using Frontier. I've finally lost steam in that arena, and broken the tools, as well as having gone cross platform and distributed across multiple machines for the 60+ hours a week I spend on the net. This "blogger" solution won't allow me the categorization options or the glossary functions, but I should be updating the page more regularly and throwing my hand in the recently crowned web pursuit of blogging.

That said let's get with it.
7:11:39 PM