Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Nov 2007 16:32 UTC
The past few weeks, as you surely have noticed, I have written a few articles on various usability terms [part I | part II | part III | part IV | part V]. I explain what they mean, their origins, as well as their implications for graphical user interface design. Even though the series is far from over, I would like to offer a bit more insight into why I am diving into these subjects.
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I) OSNews IS a blog.
Perhaps in the loosest sense, but it's more like a news site. Just like Slashdot is not a blog.
II) WE get to decide what belongs on the front page.
Of course, but what exactly are you trying to accomplish with a posting about a concept containing almost no information? There is nothing in there to make an intelligent comment on, so don't be surprised when the comments are few and irreverent.
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The blog is there in case you forgot:
http://www.osnews.com/staff/
Member since:2005-07-11
I) OSNews IS a blog.
You certainly have a strange definition of "blog", considering "blog" means "personal web log" to the rest of the world. As in, only 1 person writes the articles, usually one per day, that people can comment on. The main criteria for a blog is that there is only 1 author for all the articles.
II) WE get to decide what belongs on the front page.
That right there is what prevents OSNews from being a blog. You can't have editors, and decision makers, and call yourself a blog. That would make it a news site. Hence the name as well.
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>WE get to decide what belongs on the front page.
Sure, as long if you have to majority of the users behind your 'blog'. A blog is more than just news/articles together with some comments. Btw. time for a change of the title, OSnews doesn't fit anymore - but that's just an opinion usus in a blog.
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I) OSNews IS a blog.
Blog? Really? Why is OSNews advertised as a news site, why does it not say "blog" in anywhere on the front page except "Staff Blog", and why is there such a section if this whole site is a blog anyway? Isn't that like..err, duh? I'm not saying anything about this article in question, all I'm saying is that OSNews is most definitely not a blog.
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2007-04-13
It's great to have a popular news site because you can abuse it to hype up something that not only doesn't exist, but is not even a concept. It's a concept of a concept.
Don't get me wrong, the usability articles are great, but this article belongs in a Thom Holwerda blog post and not on the front page of OSNews.
It may have been excusable if you'd posted the design document, but you've not even got that, just an idea. You just wasted everybody's time hyping up your own inconcrete proposal.