Computers give me a gutter mouth

I looked at the blog tally on the home portal, and it said that I have written 200 entries. That means in the past two 1/2 months, I've written more entries than I did the entire last school year. I suddenly feel very tired.

This time around I'm offering some constructive criticisms for Steve Krug. first off, congratulations Steve, for making a boring subject exciting to read about. I can say that this was the first non-theater related book I've read during college that I actually liked. It didn't feel like such a chore. The resevoir of goodwill section hit home the most-I swear at at least one web page a day.  I still think they secretly hate me.

However, desipte krug's personal and hip writing style, I felt his book got uber-redundant towards the end. He spends about 4 chapters speaking about usability testing, basically saying the same guidelines with different words. I felt a sense of deja-vu. Okay Steve, we get it: usability testing is important. Re-wording is not really teaching your reader anything new. And we understand that amazon.com is a fantastic website-I've mentioned it several times myself. But its not the President of good usability testing results: there are websites out there that are just as well-designed and implemented. Then again, amazon was in its heyday when Krug wrote the book.

Coverage/Timeliness-They were all in on time. it seems me and Jed are closely tied in the "who can post first" race :). I was shocked I actually missed a blog entry, but that was for another class. soooo many blogs-it was bound to happen sometime.

Oh God, here we go

Top 5

You Shouldn't Have to Think

Driving Around and Never Getting Anywhere

I Finished This Book

Grazie a Dio, sono libera finalmente

Slouching Towards Bedlam

Now It really is over

World Wide Web of Wikipedia

History, discussion, comparison

Editing Les Miserables

Spongebob Squarepants

Reflections on the Whole


Interaction: people reacted back to interesting things I said. I wasn't as long winded this time around-I got more comments, and the blogs that weren't heavily commented on still had thoughtful response(s). I guess its true what Krug wrote: "visitors will not want to read through endless blocks of text".

I Finished This Book Today

Grazia a Dio

Slouching Towards Bedlam

Now It's really over

Interaction: I left comments on people's entries...I think this time around, there were more interesting entries

Jed:

Wikipedia'(s Lack of) Rules

I'm Sad

Anne:

Creating a Welcoming Environment

Krug Intro

Denamarie:

Wikpedia Articles

I Loathe Interactive Fiction-so do I...but for some reason, I have little problem creating it

Andy:

Story Or Game

Usability, testing, Writing, and Hatred

Jackie:

What's good is bad and what's bad is good

Joe the Web user

Chelsea:

Not a Novel-it's a website

Kevin:

Bad Page, Naughty Homepage













Depth: I wrote a lot, but didn't blab as much as I have in the past -although it was relevant and coherent blabbing

Driving Around and Never Getting Anywhere

You Shouldn't Have to Think

Grazia a Dio, Sono Libera Finalmente

Slouching Towards Bedlam

World Wide Web of Wikipedia

History, Editing

Editing Les Miserables