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If you’re a collegiate baseball player, there are basically three places where you want to go in the summer: Cape Cod, with Team USA, or to Alaska. Since I know enough about Cape Cod, I decided to dig up some dirt on Alaska. As far as I can tell, the league can be traced back [...]
Once again, I will be headed to the largest academic conference in human-computer interaction. My friend Brian Ashbaugh and I were both selected to be student volunteers at CHI 2007: Reach Beyond in San Jose, California. So, I will once again be packing my bags for the Bay Area for a week or so in [...]
It makes me cringe when people are using Internet Explorer. At this point, there is no reason at all. IE6 currently has 19 reported unpatched security holes, and Firefox has only 3. Meanwhile, there has already been a security hole discovered in IE7. I probably do not have to blog about this at all, but [...]
9 Minutes of Fame is a brand new site that gives the blogosphere a tool for self-promotion. The site is very simple, does not require users to log on, and has a great Web 2.0 design. Anyone can type in a blog or RSS URL and the content will be displayed for 9 minutes for [...]
Usability forefather Ben Shneiderman was the keynote speaker at Aging by Design 2006 at Bentley College this week. His overall message was that by making things universally accessible and usable for a sub-population (such as seniors), we are helping everyone. He cited examples such as closed captioning, which is used by not just deaf people, [...]
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