Author Archives: Chris Heisel

User registration – not the way?

Posted on May 27, 2004 by Chris Heisel

I had a chance to talk with [my friend Adrian](http://www.holovaty.com) the other day while he was in Atlanta on a layover from a [Poynter](http://www.poynter.org) conference. We got to talking about something we mutually detest… user registration. User registration, I think, … Continue reading →

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Citizen journalism: who’s problem?

Posted on April 20, 2004 by Chris Heisel

Over at Small Initiative, Jay’s got a fun little series on The problem with citizen journalism. Essentially, if you let folks rate/rank stories, sometimes some real stinkers float to the top. That begs the question, is the problem with the … Continue reading →

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I’ve got my eye on this

Posted on March 26, 2004 by Chris Heisel

There are some early, and interesting results from Poynter’s latest eyetracking study. (Hat tip to Jay). Here’s a quick rundown: * Users really like text — photos, multimedia elements and the like got lower viewing than text and text-links * … Continue reading →

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Like the nipple ring

Posted on March 23, 2004 by Chris Heisel

The firestorm brewing over TypeKey is raging to new heights. There was something about the whole bru-ha-ha (aside: who remembers Wolf3D) that reminded me of an event being blown out of proportion. BurningBird brings up the point that has been … Continue reading →

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If you can’t fail gracefully…

Posted on March 22, 2004 by Chris Heisel

Don’t blame the user, this message brought to you by Jeremy Zawodny. If you can’t, just can’t, provide a limited or reduced-functionality version of your site/software/widget/widget-as-a-rental-service etc. then don’t blame the user. Afterall it’s not that their browsers don’t support … Continue reading →