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WebWord Comment -- I have been working on a new strategy for WebWord. As you probably know, WebWord is an important usability destination. (If this is your first day here, welcome!) My primary goal is to make WebWord the top destination for usability news, articles, reviews, and more. What does this mean? First, I want to publish a lot more material. I will be asking people to write for WebWord in exchange for excellent exposure and referral opportunities. Second, I want to give consultants, organizations, and companies the opportunity to advertise on WebWord and sponsor a wide variety of usability material. If you take a look at ClickZ, you will get an idea about how the new strategy will work. The benefits are numerous. For Webword readers, there will be more content and it will stay free. For advertisers, there is an excellent marketing opportunity. I honestly think that everyone wins. Please let me know what you think!

Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To It. (Joel On Software) -- "To experienced software people, none of this is very surprising. You write the first version of your product, a few people use it, they might like it, but there are too many obvious missing features, performance problems, whatever, so a year later, you've got version 2.0. Everybody argues about which features are going to go into 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, because there are so many important things to do."

Guthrie Dolin Discusses The New Breed -- "Thoughtful designers have always done research to help secure successful project development, such as gaining a thorough understanding of audience, competitive landscape, business and communication objectives. Now, they must also consider and understand business strategy (revenue models), product attributes, functional requirements as well as user need, perspective and circumstance."

Metering and accounting for Web services (IBM) -- "In this article, the authors describe a generalized pricing model for commercial Web services that can be implemented by service providers for service requesters. The solution they propose shows how the use of Web services can be metered, and the resulting data used for subsequent accounting and billing processes. By way of example, the solution presented in the article is itself implemented as a Web service."

Thau's JavaScript Tutorial (Webmonkey) -- "The series starts off with a look at JavaScript fundamentals, including variables, if-then statements, link events, and image swaps. Keep following along as Thau gets down and dirty with the JavaScript Document Object Model, windows and frames, JavaScript syntax with loops, arrays, and functions, and forms. This all sound like a bunch of gobbledygook? Well, dig in and learn!"

Research finds fat people who exercise have half the death rate of thin people who don't (ABC News) -- "I don't mean it eliminates the risk of everything, but you can stay overweight and obese if you are fit and be just as healthy, in terms of mortality risk, as a lean fit person." (Comments: I think this is very interesting.)

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