Comments on: Sit up! You’re on the Web! http://stilgherrian.com/internet/sit-up-youre-on-the-web/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:46:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: copyinfringe http://stilgherrian.com/internet/sit-up-youre-on-the-web/#comment-13109 copyinfringe Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:11:57 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1664#comment-13109 Yo Stilg! <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2193552/">Check this</a> out too, by Slate. Yo Stilg! Check this out too, by Slate.

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/internet/sit-up-youre-on-the-web/#comment-13084 Stilgherrian Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:43:15 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1664#comment-13084 <strong>@Simon Rumble:</strong> Yeah, that's the guy. I don't know that he's irrelevant, but perhaps a one-trick pony? His firm does lots of eye-tracking studies, so perhaps that's the prism through which they look at usability generally? Of course, once someone reaches a certain level of fame (or notoriety), they can give up thinking any further and just say whatever comes into their head and their fans will lap it up. Hmmm... is that the old "tall poppies syndrome" at work? ;) <strong>@Speedicut:</strong> Or like that old adage about the builder having the worst house in town because he's too busy working on everyone else's? That doesn't cut it in Neilsen's case, though. Not at $1k per seminar attendee. @Simon Rumble: Yeah, that’s the guy. I don’t know that he’s irrelevant, but perhaps a one-trick pony? His firm does lots of eye-tracking studies, so perhaps that’s the prism through which they look at usability generally?

Of course, once someone reaches a certain level of fame (or notoriety), they can give up thinking any further and just say whatever comes into their head and their fans will lap it up.

Hmmm… is that the old “tall poppies syndrome” at work? ;)

@Speedicut: Or like that old adage about the builder having the worst house in town because he’s too busy working on everyone else’s?

That doesn’t cut it in Neilsen’s case, though. Not at $1k per seminar attendee.

]]> By: Speedicut http://stilgherrian.com/internet/sit-up-youre-on-the-web/#comment-13083 Speedicut Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:10:08 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1664#comment-13083 Do as I say not as I do? Do as I say not as I do?

]]> By: Simon Rumble http://stilgherrian.com/internet/sit-up-youre-on-the-web/#comment-13082 Simon Rumble Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:35:06 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1664#comment-13082 Ahhh yes, the old usability "expert" with the butt-ugly, poorly-designed, difficult-to-use web site trick... Nielsen is irrelevant because he can't even put his own teachings into practise himself. Ahhh yes, the old usability “expert” with the butt-ugly, poorly-designed, difficult-to-use web site trick… Nielsen is irrelevant because he can’t even put his own teachings into practise himself.

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