cheezy cheeky: today in brief

Thursday, March 15, 2007

today in brief

1. Check the campaign website of Jazz Pepsi. I can't remember the last time I liked a Pepsi ad. Neither the last time I clicked on a Yahoo commercial because it truly spoke to me. Of course, it wasn't Pepsi that attracted me, but jazz.

2. These days I'm unsubscribing from any RSS feed that isn't full. This includes friends, media institutions, and A list bloggers abroad that I will no longer read; there's plenty left to read. You won't make me open your blog by publishing a fragmented feed. The reason why I read your feed instead of your blog is that I've got limited time and prefer one browser window to a zillion ones combined with some bookmarking service. Stop losing readers! Get RSS for your blog. Make it a full feed. Learn why from Modern Life Is Rubish.

3. Eyetracking points--the way to effective design online. Get some insight from one of world's best-known usability experts, Jakob Nielsen (2005). Via catastif [RO].

4. Ashes and Snow™. All photographs © Gregory Colbert. Via Mad Tea Party [BR].

5. Hypothesis 1: Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/ keystrokes/ gestures. Read Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design. Via my love.

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6 comments (anonymous ones not published)

oanababy: Amen to the full feeds. Nothing more annoying than only getting the first couple of sentences. If you don't want people reading your posts in their feed readers, then don't have a feed on your page! Gah.; March 16, 2007 9:04 PM (permalink)
gorgeoux: Well said, thank you!; March 17, 2007 9:24 AM (permalink)
Ashok: Thanks for the kick up the arse regarding full feeds.
It is the right thing to offer. It's just never the feed I want for myself, so that isn't obvious to me.
Just sorted them out for my site, and therefore for your love's (should he need them).; March 19, 2007 3:23 PM (permalink)
gorgeoux: That's great news, thank you and... my pleasure. He certainly needs it for this reader, at least.; March 19, 2007 3:37 PM (permalink)
DaniCast: I do exactly the same. Make no sense a RSS that isn´t full.; March 20, 2007 2:36 AM (permalink)
gorgeoux: Thanks, Dani. Now I've started commenting nicely on some blogs to ask bloggers if they would offer full RSS. Attack!; March 20, 2007 8:12 AM (permalink)