demonstrates that new media don’t kill old media. In fact, they may bolster them. Remember, telegraph was mandated on all oceangoing ships until just a couple of years ago.
Archives for July 2000
Michael Sippey wrote
a rebuttal to Nielsen’s article entitled “The Beginning of Web Design” in stating the obvious. I think it’s a much more balanced approach to things. [link via heather]
A friend passed
along a link to an interesting paper today, “The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments” by Wilfredo Sanchez of Apple. I must say I’m getting excited about OS X, the public betas of which are expected this summer. The friend who passed this along is a serious software and network engineer, so his vetting of things carries a lot of weight with me.
Jakob Nielsen has
published a new Alertbox article, “End of Web Design.” He writes, “Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.”
No it doesn’t. It means that although each of the sites are different, users don’t mind your particular differences that much, really, and if you keep doing a good job of serving them, you’ll succeed. More – maybe it means that because the sites are different they are successful, because people like diversity, especially when reading or shopping, two things the web is used for extensively.
Joel Spolsky has
a weblog called Joel on Software. He wrote a really good analysis of the Microsoft .NET stuff the other day entitled Microsoft Goes Bonkers. He’s right too – there’s no there there with dotNET. I would only add that the big problem is not a technological one, it’s cultural. That’s why I like Deepleap and sites like it. Companies like Deepleap are addressing the central question of how people will use the web in a more fundamental way than most others – it’s not about information, it’s about relationships. [link via calebos.org]
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