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Issue
#69 23-Jun-2002
1. 2002 WebWord Survey
2. AmphetaDesk and the Adventures of Morbus Iff
3. About the Blogosphere
4. Pain at Mozilla.org
5. Book Review: On-the-Job Research: How Usable Are Corporate Research Intranets?
6. The Usability of the Palm Vx
7. Blog Tidbits
8. WebWord and Advertising
9. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#68 29-May-2002
1. Advertising Experimentation
2. Removing the Ws from URLs
3. Hyperlinks in Email
4. Google Voice Search
5. Usability for Senior Citizens
6. Lack of Formatting Control in Email
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#67 20-Apr-2002
1. From Greymatter to Movable Type
2. Some Thoughts on Extranets
3. The Voyeur Web
4. A Clever Web Site: ollllo.com
5. Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery
6. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#66 12-Mar-2002
1. Usability Versus Quality
2. Web Sites That Heal
3. Perceived Information Architecture: User Feedback
4. Norton AntiVirus 2002: Feedback from Symantec
5. CNN Money and META http-equiv="refresh"
6. Launch of Boxes and Arrows
7. Learn How to Think Like a Usability Expert
8. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#65 4-Feb-2002
1. WebWord Newsletter Growth
2. Usability in Hong Kong
3. Installing Norton AntiVirus 2002: A Usability Case Study
4. Information Architecture for the Rest of Us
5. Book Review: Designing from Both Sides of the Screen
6. When Will Google Screw Up?
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#64 27-Dec-2001
1. Triangulation in Usability Experiments
2. Understanding Design Misfits
3. The Perceived Information Architecture Test (PIA)
4. Requirements Engineering Portal
5. Wayback Machine: WebWord
6. Deep Linking, WebWord, and The Vanguard Group
7. Metafilter Text Ad Experience
8. WebWord Hot Sites and Newsletter Archive
9. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#63 28-Oct-2001
1. New WebWord Service: Web Site Quality Testing
2. A Business Case for Usability
3. The Face of Information Architecture
4. Dave's Quick Search Deskbar
5. Investigations in Systems Design: Structure,
Context, Failure and Usability
6. Representations and Perceived Information
Architecture (PIA)
7. Driving, Death, and Usability
8. The Austin Chapter of the UPA
9. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#62 24-sep-2001
1. WebWord Partnerships
2. Donation Gravity
3. Google 2.0
4. Complicate Your Web Site
5. From Banners to Scumware to Usable Marketing
6. Book Review: Don't Make Me Think
7. Top Usability Research Information Sites
8. Posting Comments on WebWord
9. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#61 16-Aug-2001
1. WebWord is Three Years Old
2. Post Office Pro
3. DarWindow
4. The Gift of Grey
5. Painless Software Management
6. Some Thoughts on Usability and the Economy
7. Less Than Metcalfe's Law
8. Password Usability
9. Usability in Ireland: We're Just Getting Started
10. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#60 26-Jul-2001
1. WebWord Version 2.0
2. The Usability of Usability
3. The Glassdog Barks
4. Are You Tired of Jakob?
5. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#59 1-Jul-2001
1. Please Submit Usability News
2. Services First, Technology Second, People Third
3. True Simplicity: Krug-o-rama!
4. Understanding the Art and Science of Web Design
5. Understanding the VA HyperFAQ
6. Attack of the Back Button
7. Amazon, You Just Lost $82.62
8. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#58 10-Jun-2001
1. DarWindow: A Huge Opportunity
2. The Four Horsemen of Usability
3. The WebWord Content Management System
4. Care to Invest in Usability?
5. Xanga!
6. Reflections on Open Source
7. WebWord Reader Mail
8. Interesting Stuff
9. WebWord Discussions
10. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#57 8-May-2001
1. Editorial: My Freezing Computer
2. Web Usability Bill of Rights
3. About Freeloading
4. Random Observations About Intranets 2001
5. Special: My Secret Project
6. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#56 15-Apr-2001
1. Editorial: Time, Time, Time or Just Time
2. Book Review: Are Your Lights On?
3. Every Click is an Investment
4. Italy and the Internet
5. The Next Development Platform
6. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#55 5-Mar-2001
1. Editorial: There are No Good or Bad Web Sites
2. Analyzing Success Rates in Web Usability Testing:
The Cochran's Q Test
3. The Usability of Email Subject Lines
4. Usability at Women.com - Part II
5. What Stinks About Computer Products?
6. Colorblindness and Usability
7. Visiting The Ghost
8. How often do you visit WebWord?
9. WebWord.com Newsletter Archive
10. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #54
21-Jan-2001
1. Editorial: Humans at the Other End
2. Usability at Women.com
3. Usability Metrics
4. The Ghost!
5. Usability -- The Irish Experience
6. Usability in Northern Europe: Still a Long Way to Go
7. Ground Floor Perspective on the Usability Job Hunt
8. Tidbits: Associated Press, USA Weekend, and Headlines
9. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #53
2-Jan-2001
1. Editorial: Welcome to 2001
2. Usability Can Save Your Company
3. Usability Around the Globe: Resources Page
4. How to Localise Your Website: A UK Perspective on Usability
5. The Usability of Headlines
6. WebWord Usability Services Page Revised
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #52
29-Nov-2000
1. Special Announcement: Flash Usability Consortium
2. Rage Against the Machine
3. A Tough Nut to Crack: Returned Customer Email
4. Writing About Technology
5. The Intersection of Information Architecture and Usability
6. A Letter to a Friend Just Starting in Usability
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #51
22-Oct-2000
1. Constructive Criticism
2. Trouble in Paradise: Problems Facing the Usability Community
3. Brief Open Letter to Fool.com
4. Call Them Demons, Call Them Heroes
5. Bounty Hunter E-Commerce Experiment
6. Usability of Sony DSC-S70
Issue #50
1-Oct-2000
1. Welcome and Thank You
2. Flash Usability Challenge
3. New Stuff at WebWord.com
4. Upcoming Usability Conferences
5. The Wireless Customer Experience
6. What Do You Really Think of Banner Ads?
7. Can You Believe What You Read?
Issue
#49 20-August-2000
1. The WebWord Redesign Drama
2. Inside Logicept
3. Money Makes the Web Go Round
4. Web Site Accessibility -- Part One
5. A Note About Diablo II
6. Website Enhancements (Event)
Issue
#48 2-July-2000
1. Trashy Supermarket Tabloid Memories
2. More About WebWord.com (The Women.com Story)
3. Growth of the WebWord.com Job Bank
4. Editorial: The Small Pizza Restaurant
5. My Linux Installation
6. Two Usability Questions
Issue
#47 4-June-2000
1. WebWord.com Job Bank
2. Animation, Titan A.E., and Usability
3. The Job Hunt: Rich Uncle vs. Monster.com
4. WebWord.com Log File Analysis
5. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#46 10-May-2000
1. SmartBorg: Short Review
2. Usability Conference Announcement (Part II)
3. WebWord.com Usability Interviews for the Palm Pilot
4. What Has Happened to WebRings?
5. The Impact of Technology on Punctuation
6. Discussion Board and Daily News
7. Statistical Garbage!
8. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#45 15-April-2000
1. Ask Jeeves and Urinating Canines
2. Usability Conference Announcement
3. The Value of Free Information
4. Web Developers: On Being Too Wired
5. Reading from the Screen Versus Hard Copy
6. One versus Two Spaces...Revisited
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#44 26-March-2000
1. XML: What You Need to Know
2. Preference Does Not Equal Performance
3. WebWord.com Discussion Board (Update)
4. WebWord.com -- We Do Testing, and More
5. Pesky File Name Extensions -- No More
6. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#43 23-February-2000
1. A Sitemap on Every Page
2. WebWord.com Discussion Board
3. Open Topics: WUBOR and International Usability
4. Open Company Information
5. What is WebWord.com Exactly?
6. Flooz, Tower Records, and Godiva
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#42 8-February-2000
Special Issue!
The Myth of the Stupid User (Revisited)
A follow up interview with Gerry Gaffney
Issue
#41 7-February-2000
1. The Myth of the
Stupid User
2. Web User Bill of Rights
3. Usability of Dell Latitude Cpi A300ST (laptop)
4. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#40 29-Jan-2000
1. Who is Jakob Siegal?
2. Reader Feedback: How Useful is Cool? (Part I)
3. Reader Feedback: How Useful is Cool? (Part II)
4. Reader Feedback: Wal-mart.com
5. International Usability: The Community Doesn't Exist?
6. Request: International Usability Resources
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#39 16-Jan-2000
1. An Inside View of Fatbrain's eMatter
2. How Useful is "Cool"?
3. Reader Feedback: Wal-mart.com
4. Reader Feedback: Poor User Experience
5. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#38 6-Jan-2000
1. A Potpourri of Thoughts from an Intelligent
Internet Consultant
2. WebWord.com Guru Interviews Still #1 at Fatbrain
3. Wal-mart.com and URLs
4. ProWebSite...You Must Be Joking!
5. Job Opportunity: Fatbrain Needs Some Great Minds
6. Usability Versus the Customer Experience
7. WebWord.com Addiction Revisited
8. Welcome to WebWord.com Daniel Sloat
9. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#37 20-Dec-99
1. Thinking Beyond Web Usability
2. WebWord.com Guru Interviews Still #1 at Fatbrain
3. Some Excellent Books By Don Norman
4. Job Opportunity: Fatbrain Needs Some Great Minds
5. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#36 12-Dec-99
1. In the Trenches with a Weblog Pioneer
2. WebWord.com Guru Interviews #1 at Fatbrain
3. Upcoming Usability Related Events
4. Searching for "Usability" in Search Engines
5. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#35 5-Dec-99
1. The WebWord.com Guru Interviews
2. A Quick Review of Homestead.com
3. Two New Epinions
4. Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
5. The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
6. Get Your Daily Usability News Fix
7. Another Word on ProWebSite
8. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#34 14-Nov-99
1. How ProWebSite Stuck it to Me
2. Managing User Expectations
3. Recent Epinions
4. The WebWord.com Addiction: Daily News by Email
5. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#33 14-Oct-99
1. The Stench of Evil Users
2. Epinions Going Strong
3. Yes, This is A Short Newsletter
4. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#32 4-Oct-99
1. The Human Behind Robot Wisdom
2. An Inside View of Epinions
3. Path of Resistance: Reader Feedback
4. URLs and Signatures in Email: Reader Feedback
5. Books I'm Reading
6. My eBook
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#31 27-Sept-99
1. A Deep Understanding of the Customer Experience
2. Epinions: Comment and Commentary
3. Formatting URLs for Use in Email
4. "www" Problem: Blame the Server or the Browser?
5. The WebWord.com Usability Weblog
6. Tidbits
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#30 16-Sept-99
1. Are You Creating a Path of Resistance?
2. My Epinions
3. Fatbrain's eMatter Spam
4. How Programmers Stole the Web
5. WebWord.com Odds and Ends
6. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#29 5-Sept-99
1. When The Title Ain't Good: How PC Magazine Failed
2. Online Dictionaries
3. weblogs
4. Banner Ads Suck, Ease of Use Rules
5. Nielsen//Netratings
6. An Image that Worked
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #28 22-Aug-99
1. Web Usability: Past, Present, and
Future
(an exclusive interview with Jakob Nielsen)
2. The Permanent Sponsorship of Web Content
3. Net-Alert is Good for You
4. The Evolution of Amazon
5. Usability News Every Day on WebWord.com
6. 1064 Subscribers and a Year on Web
7. FREE Publicity at WebWord.com
8. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#27 2-Aug-99
1. The Stranglehold of
the Priesthood Has Been Broken
2. Tomalak's Realm: Strategic Web Design News
3. Altec Lansing ACS45.1 Power Cube
4. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#26 26-July-99
1. Portable Devices Cause
Usability Problems
2. WebWord.com Permanent Sponsorship Model
3. The One to One Marketing Forum
4. The Web Changes...Nothing?
5. Live Intranet Demonstration: A Complete Failure
6. Pass It On, Tell a Friend
7. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#25 13-July-99
1. Book Review: Writing
for the Web
2. Amazon.com: Customer Driven to the Core
3. 103 Best Songs You've Never Heard, Vol. 2 (Free)
4. Response to Server Side Includes (SSI) Report
5. "Make My Site Sell"
6. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#24 7-July-99
1. Usability Perspective
on Banner Ads
2. Take a Ride on the Cluetrain
3. NetMedia99 Conference Presentation
4. Usability Tidbits and Interesting WebSites
5. Open Company Information
6. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#23 24-June-99
1. Server Side Includes
2. The Failure of Customer Support on the Web
3. Death of My Computer (Drumbeat Update)
4. Business Listing: Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc.
5. List of Windows Shortcuts
6. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#22 14-June-99
1. When to Link Out of Your Site
2. Book Review: The Victorian Internet
3. Web Development and Usability Tidbits
4. Web Site Submission
5. Future of Portals
6. Business Listing: Gomoll Research & Design, Inc.
7. Site Checking Through "Virtual Users"
8. Font Management Advice, by Dr. Katz
9. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#21 6-June-99
1. Lotus Domino Resources
2. Focus on User Responses
3. Online Class: Designing Effective Web Pages
4. Link to WebWord.com
5. Reducing Color Depth
6. More Information Architecture
7. Business Listing: Diamond Bullet Design
8. Manage Your Career (sponsor)
9. Server Side Includes (SSIs)
10. WebWord.com Newsletter Archive
11. Send Me Your Software, Hardware, and Books
12. Job Posting Opportunity
13. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#20 26-May-99
1. Information Architecture Revealed!
2. Web Marketing Research
3. Web Site Accessibility Resource
4. Send Me Your Software, Hardware, and Books
5. Manage Your Career (sponsor)
6. Reader Challenge: Font Management
7. Web Sites and Tidbits
8. Job Posting Opportunity
9. Safety Organizations (U.S. Government)
10. Business Listing: R&R Research, Inc.
11. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue
#19 17-May-99
1. Book Review: Customers.com
2. One Versus Two Spaces After a Period?
3. Killer Usability Resource! The HCI Bibliography
4. Usability Tidbits
5. Excellent Free Offers (sponsor)
6. Business Listing: HK Interface Design
7. A Small Request
8. On the Nature of Technology
9. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #18
6-May-99
1. 11 Email and Newsletter Ad Tips
2. Review: Diamond Multimedia Monster Sound MX300
3. DayTips Free Daily Mailing Lists (sponsor)
4. Does Usability Ignore Graphic Design?
5. WebWord.com Newsletter Is Now Archived
6. Domain Names: .com Versus .cc
7. 90% Off Brand Name Merchandise! (sponsor)
8. Tidbits
9. Dealing with the IRS: A Real Pleasure!
11. WebWord.com's Best Selling Books
Issue #17
29-Apr-99
1. Super Easy Usability Testing
2. Improving the User Interface
3. Open Company News: 600 Subscribers
4. Beyond Reciprocal Links
5. Newsletter Ad Swap
6. As Simple as Possible
7. Internet News Bureau (sponsor)
8. White Text on a Blue Background
9. Reader Feedback: When "Undo" Can't "Save" You
10. Open Company Information: A Brief Commentary
11. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #16
22-Apr-99
1. Making Money on the Internet
2. Simplified WebWord.com Home Page
3. LearningFOUNT, Part I (sponsor)
4. LearningFOUNT, Part II (comment)
5. Take a Ride on the Cluetrain
6. When "Undo" Can't "Save" You
7. Yale Web Style Guide (Recommended Book)
8. Drumbeat 2.0: The Death of My Computer
9. How Much Money Do Web Professionals Earn?
10. Lend A Helping Hand
11. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #15
12-Apr-99
1. Spool Vision: An Eye on User Data (HOT!)
2. Open WebWord.com
3. Recommended Book
4. Free Software
5. Web Sites and the ERROR ROBOT
6. Maintaining Your Internet Awareness
7. Lend A Helping Hand
8. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #14
7-Apr-99
1. The Open Company Manifesto
2. Life Usability
3. This Space Left Intentionally Blank
4. What Can You Find at WebWord.com?
Issue #13
1-Apr-99
1. Over 500 WebWord.com Newsletter Subscribers!
2. WebWord.com's Search Engine
3. The Failure of General User Feedback
4. Recommended Book: Creating Killer Web Sites
5. NetMedia'99 Conference
6. Accepting Advertisements in this Newsletter
7. Another Plug for LinkAlarm
8. Spamcop to the Rescue
9. Lawdawg and Free Stuff
10. Tidbits
11. What can you find at WebWord.com?
Issue #12
23-Mar-99
1. The Facts About Repetitive Strain Injuries
2. Star Wars and Web Site Usability
3. Please Spread the Word
4. Maximum Privacy
Issue #11
17-Mar-99
1. Interaction Design: The Guru Speaks
2. Web Usability and NetObjects Fusion
3. Usability Resource: CHI-Web Discussion List
4. Book of Interest
5. Requesting Your Help
6. Tech-head and Geek Links
7. Usability Snapshot: Fun Stuff By Email
8. Coming Soon!
Issue #10
7-Mar-99
1. Free Stuff and Web Usability
2. Favorable Review of WebWord.com by TechMailings
3. Why Should (Small) Businesses Go on the Web?
4. Webshoppers: Navigation Frustration!
5. Ergonomics, Workplace Productivity, and User Safety
6. New WebWord Logo
7. Two More Banners Gone From WebWord.com Forever
8. Recommended Book
Issue #9
22-Feb-99
1. Removal of a Banner Ad
2. A Bigger Monitor is NOT Better?
3. Gathering Usability Data About Merchants
4. Job Posting of Interest
5. Protect Your Eyes
6. New WebWord.com Logo
7. Recommended Book: "Cost-Justifying Usability"
Issue #8
14-Feb-99
1. The Web for Your Company: Magic Bullet or Poison Pill?
2. Expert Interview: Usability Warrior, Keith Instone
3. What are Cookies?
4. Who Visits WebWord.com?
5. Internet Stocks
6. Losing Your Hands
7. Visiting a non-English Web site
8. Spread the Word, The WebWord :-)
Issue #7
7-Feb-99
SPECIAL NEWSFLASH! An Interview with Web Usability Expert Keith Instone
"Snapshot of a Usability Warrior"
Issue #6
4-Feb-99
1. Moving WebWord Article : Strategic Linking
2. Moving WebWord Article : Internet Strategist
3. Server Meltdown and Online Backups
4. Reader Challenge : No More Banner Ads
5. Book : Essential Business Tactics for the Net
6. Pentium III Chips : Goodbye Privacy
7. Cool Quote
8. Advertisement: An Interesting Affiliate Program
Issue #5
29-Jan-99
1. Year 2000 Problem (Y2K)
2. LinkAlarm Is A Hit
3. Failure of Submission Tools
4. Failure of Search Engines
5. Comparison Shopping: mySimon?
6. Recommended E-commerce Book
7. WebWord.com Friends Page
8. How Stuff Works
9. Usability Snapshots
10. Read An Old Article
11. Pass On The WebWord.com Newsletter
Issue #4
18-Jan-99
1. A New Expert Interview is Online
2. Get A Free Web Site (through VirtualAve)
3. Better Internet Bureau (revisited)
4. How to Create Effective Links in E-mail
5. WebWord.com Friends Program: Picking Up Steam
6. Why Should You Care About Web Cards?
7. Visit WebWord.com
8. Your Site, Usability, and Search Engines
9. Reader Feedback
10. Pass This Newsletter On and On and On
11. Classified Ads (2 advertisements)
Issue #3
12-Jan-99
1. A new Moving WebWord article is online
2. A new expert interview is online
3. Feedback: "www.webword.com" versus "webword.com"
4. A money saving message from our sponsor
5. LinkAlarm: Visits but too few test drives
6. An excellent HTML reference book
7. "FREEstuff" versus "freestuff": My BIG mistake
8. The WebWord.com TITLE tag
9. Thank you...
10. Two sponsors
11. The Better Internet Bureau
12. Increasing the reach of this Newsletter
Issue #2
6-Jan-99
1. A new interview is online
2. Jakob Nielsen's Web Site URL, ack!
3. Visit this sponsor...and all that jazz ;-)
4. InterNIC has some usability problems
5. Wow! An Easy to Set Up Associate Program
6. Internet $$$ Statistics
7. A New Friend!
8. FREE stuff on WebWord.com
9. Tell A Friend, It Is Easier Than Ever
Issue #1
28-Dec-98
8 quick usability tips
WebWord.com Friends Club
WebCards
Secret Information
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