That guy you know from the Internet, probably.
danah boyd and co-author published this academic paper on social networks. And not a moment too soon: This is headed straight for the lit review in my new project proposal (for ReportingOn).
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship – JCMC
“…struggling with issues of “clarifying” and “routinizing” the innovative technology as amplified by Rogers1 in his exploration of the innovation process…”
Your banner advertising, at any CPM, is frigging invisible to users. So sayeth the annoying usability guy, and on this, I’ll bow down to his eyetrack study. via Will.
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Who wants a really cool gig in Cambridge? Heck, who doesn’t?
I think there’s three choices: Blog, host local blogs, or aggregate local blogs. None need be exclusive of the others.
Should Newspapers Become Local Blog Networks? – Publishing 2.0
I had better finish that thesis of mine right quick before too many people get their research out…
Qualitative analysis software is all well and good, but can it go to the library and get those last three books I need to finish up my thesis proposal by explaining pattern analysis? I didn’t think so. I’ll download the trial anyway. via stepno.
ATLAS.ti – The Knowledge Workbench:: ATLAS.ti – The QDA Software.
If you trust eyetracking studies, this is a qualitative bit on how users interact with multimedia features — granted, that’s a broad category, and the examples they use are pretty varied, but the results are useful: Text gets more attention than you migh
Her homepage with good sources on qualitative research, NVivo tutorials, list of publications.
Ryan Sholin 