The Paradox of Choice (of books)

Disclaimer: I haven’t read the book by Barry Scwhartz (Paradox of Choice). yet.

The real purpose of this post is to understand how others are making choices out there regarding all the books on marketing, business life / management, ’self-help’; how do you sift through the books and choose what’s worth reading? And most importantly, what’s worth implementing?

Understanding Visitor Intent and Web Conventions

As this blog develops I’m surely going to be tweaking and adjusting various aspects concerning layout / typography / naming schemes / visual hierarchy etc …

Over the last few years I’ve proven my ability to look at a website and recognize “user experience pitfalls” quite easily. On almost any website I visit I’m always thinking of link placement and colors, type spacing, navigation consistency etc… How easy is the site to use? Am I struggling to find what I’m looking for or is it totally thoughtless?

The Forecast is in the Tweet Clouds

I ran across Twitter Grader the other day and noticed a lot of people bragging about their overall scores as compared to others. After looking at a few Grade Reports for various high profile tweeters, I came to a simple conclusion: a Tweeter’s high score doesn’t mean that their tweets actually contain ‘quality’ information.