And given that Jakob didn't assess the same sites as before, well, I can't believe any of it.

Posted by: on June 24, 2002 09:22 PM

 

Did anyone notice that I did not post a link to Nielsen's article on the WebWord home page? I just couldn't tolerate it.

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 24, 2002 09:32 PM

 

We're not worthy. we're not worthy...
I admit it, I'm a sinner and have not implemented the holy writ of Jokeob...

I think we should start a fund to send Jakob to Siberia to spend some time with Sergei; surely a kindred spitit.

Jesus of Siberia - Guardian 24 May 2002
"Sergei Torop was a traffic cop in the small Russian town of Minusinsk until 1989, when he announced that he was the son of God. Now he commands a following of thousands and rules over a large swath of the Siberian mountains."

Posted by: Mac on June 25, 2002 03:32 AM

 

Allow me to pontificate like Uncle Jakob.

I find that the size of oranges have gone up in the last 1.5 years. Oranges are now 4% bigger. How do we know this? Because when we surveyed the size of apples 1.5 years ago, we found that they were 4% smaller than oranges now are.

We tested a grand total of 15 oranges out of the 1 million or so currently sold in our area. Based on this, we can confidently predict that grapes will be 200% bigger by 2017.

There, I'm done. Wanna pay me $10000 per day to predict trends for you?

Posted by: MadMan on June 25, 2002 05:34 AM

 

Review: Publicity, Pseudoscience and Usability.

"This is not about taking a gratuitous pot-shot at one man who has been a tireless campaigner for the cause of usability, but it does smack a bit of clutching at straws to keep the wheels turning."

Posted by: Jack on June 25, 2002 11:11 AM

 

What I found most interesting was that JN is treating his scale as an accepted and known industry standard.

Posted by: JB on June 25, 2002 01:29 PM

 

JS

I did notice that you did not post it. I think it would have been good to put it up....it may have taken people away from commenting on your survey :)

It would have at least started another healthy debate.

Posted by: JB on June 25, 2002 01:32 PM

 

Actually after re-reading this I strongly believe that he did not write this himself...I actually need to believe this as this guy is destroying himself just before bringing out Flash usability best practices.... it must of been one of his underlings and he stuck his name on it.

Posted by: JB on June 25, 2002 01:41 PM

 

I am disturbed. What's new, right? JB called John S. Rhodes "JS." I used to go by "JS" until I noticed another JS needing to call himself "(the other)JS." Perhaps we need to begin a numbering system.

As long as we don't accrue six JS's, we should be OK.

Posted by: Jack on June 25, 2002 03:48 PM