{"id":320,"date":"2009-06-04T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T00:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/04\/links-for-2009-06-04\/"},"modified":"2009-06-14T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T16:09:01","slug":"links-for-2009-06-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/04\/links-for-2009-06-04\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-06-04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was an experiment, in doing more with my <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\">delicious bookmarks<\/a>. I was hoping that I could get more feedback and discussion on <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\">things I found interesting enough to bookmark<\/a> by automatically posting links to them here. Many <a href=\"http:\/\/picocool.com\/\">sites<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/\">that I<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/\">enjoy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/\">reading<\/a> do something similar. But it hasn&#8217;t felt like a good fit for me.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eddit.com\/shop\/\">eddit: Shop: iPhone icon sets<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The $39 ones are very affordable, and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/scottstevenson\/status\/2033218172\">got a nod from Scott Stevenson<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/iphonedev\">iphonedev<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/icons\">icons<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/design\">design<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/ui\">ui<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pickfu.com\/\">Let us Pick-fu you. | Cheap &amp; instant market research.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Pay $5, get (only!) 50 people to vote on a yes\/no question. Sounds like a lot of money compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mturk.com\">mturk<\/a>. As always, I&#039;m skeptical that any internet poll can be a usably-random sample.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/web2.0\">web2.0<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/research\">research<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/crowdsourcing\">crowdsourcing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/marketresearch\">marketresearch<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/polling\">polling<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/opinion\">opinion<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/2009\/03\/facebook-digital-sharecroppers.html\">Is Facebook Turning Us Into Digital Sharecroppers? | Small Business Trends<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">\n<blockquote><p>Author Nicholas Carr coined the phrase digital sharecroppers to describe those of us who create content on community Web 2.0 sites&#8230;.He says we are like sharecroppers after the Civil War \u2014 tilling land that we don\u2019t own, barely eking out a living, while someone else who owns the land, benefits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But clearly facebook gives us something of value, even if it&#8217;s fun, not money. (That said, I&#8217;ve got adds blocked though CSS).<\/p>\n<p>However, I think Digital Sharecroppers is an appropriate term for contributers to restrictive open source projects. The real wealth of a programming project is the code, not the final product. And licenses like the GPL don&#8217;t let contributers share in that wealth by using it in their own proprietary projects.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/web2.0\">web2.0<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/buisness\">buisness<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/socialmedia\">socialmedia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/facebook\">facebook<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/2009\/06\/04\/stop-selling-scarcity\/\">Stop selling scarcity<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">\n<blockquote><p>The future of advertising needs to be selling &#8211; that is, enabling &#8211; relevance instead of selling scarce space, time, or eyeballs. The future needs to be about adding value &#8211; relevance &#8211; rather than selling scarcity (extracting what the market will bear). I\u2019m not sure whether Digg\u2019s system is a step in that direction; Batey\u2019s right that there could be unintended consequences. But it\u2019s worth watching. I hope Digg shares data and experience in its fascinating experiment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/advertising\">advertising<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/web2.0\">web2.0<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/digg\">digg<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/research\">research<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deeperweb.com\/\">DeeperWeb Search &#8211; The Essential Search Engine Addon and Plugin<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">google + tag cloud for your search<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/search\">search<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/google\">google<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/web2.0\">web2.0<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/tags\">tags<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utah.edu\/~hal\/docs\/daume02yaht.pdf\">http:\/\/www.cs.utah.edu\/~hal\/docs\/daume02yaht.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/toread\">toread<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5277383\/use-caps-lock-for-hand+friendly-text-navigation\">Lifehacker &#8211; Use Caps Lock for Hand-Friendly Text Navigation &#8211; Ubergeek<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The idea is to remap Caps Lock so that while holding it, J-I-L-K work like the arrow keys to move the cursor. Since we have more clear arrow keys, I don&#039;t think that&#039;s the best use for caps lock, but ideas for using it are always interesting.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/capslock\">capslock<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/interface\">interface<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/navigation\">navigation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/text\">text<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/VTPG\/writing\">writing<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/20040301.html\">Risks of Quantitative Studies (Jakob Nielsen&#039;s Alertbox)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nielson argues that qualitative analysis is dangerously narrow. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#039;s a dangerous mistake to believe that statistical research is somehow more scientific or credible than insight-based observational research. In fact, most statistical research is less credible than qualitative studies. Design research is not like medical science: ethnography is its closest analogy in traditional fields of science. User interfaces and usability are highly contextual, and their effectiveness depends on a broad understanding of human behavior<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The problem with qualatative &quot;research&quot; however is that it&#039;s not clear how to make it objective and verifiable. <\/p>\n<p>Nielson makes a good point that 95% confidence &rArr; 1\/20 results are wrong. 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I was hoping that I could get more feedback and discussion on things I found interesting enough to bookmark by automatically posting links to them here. Many sites that I enjoy reading do something similar. 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