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2000

April (printable version)

1. 23: Internet Explorer 5 doesn't fully support HTML 4 as billed
2. 26: Et Tu Sais Homme (and they know navigation): A Japanese meatspace and cyberspace store uses Java flyouts as a clever solution to bilingual navigation

May (printable version)

1. Nick Finck has tremendous facility with purple

June (printable version)

1. 28: Scrunching eras together? In "the death of content," we may be failing to heed the lessons of cable television
2. 27: Will "the death of content" please shut up? The imminent demise of online content sites is a prediction unsupported by the facts. That doesn't mean we're not worried
3. 24: Photography: Worth a thousand?
4. 20: Government bilingualism update
5. 20: Metadata: Enriching Web pages by adding layers of subtle, highly compatble, low-bandwidth complexity as opposed to, say, Flash animation
6. 14: Multilingual content and Multilingualism redux (June 20): It's the World Wide Web, and not everyone reads English. What do you need to know to produce one site multilingually?
7. 18: Newswatch: Recent links
8. 12: Stuffing too much down the pike: Broadband content works, some of the time
9. 10: Our hate-on for portals: How condescending these portalistas are
10. 8: Duelling Fred Flintstones: A dialectic on the seemingly perennial topic of the death of content
11. 7: Niche content sighting
12. 6: Usability is like love, irreducible, and hard to find if you set yourself a mission to do so
13. 5: Will Jakob Nielsen please shut up? (Web reading)
14. 5: Nix BMX! A supercool Web shop may be too cool to produce a usable site. We give you another weapon in your armamentarium to ensure you don't hire such a vendor
15. 5: Usability critiques we're liking

July (printable version)

1. 31: Survey says...! The British do not turn to the net for news. At least not first. There's a wedge to be driven in, we think
2. 26: The inevitable discussion of comix
3. 26: Will the NUblog please shut up about APBNews? APB, the thought police
4. 25: Weblogs: Too young to be stale: Paul Ford redefines a still-new discursive form. And we really mean redefine
5. 25: Weblogs and newspapers: The simple addition of a Weblog is still a bit too rocket-science for newspapermen
6. 24: Database as a Genre of New Media
7. 19: Losing the war of the clueless: Quebecor blows it with online newspapers
8. 18: Peter Morville, smart(arse)
9. 15: We've got pictures to prove it: Cutesy-cum-sexy DHTML navigation elements revealed!
10. 15: Newswatch: Recent links
11. 13: Link me, Amadeus!: Are links content, or a distraction?
12. 13: What sort of man surfs Esquire? An outdated, weirdly gay hetero men's magazine, with a site that's halfway there
13. 11: Joint, or asunder?: Should alternasites marry or live apart?
14. 9: Newswatch: Recent links
15. 7: Rushkoff solves the riddle! Douglas Rushkoff tells us what Web content is really useful for
16. 4: Interface trickery: Sexy DHTML interfaces that pop! out at you
17. 4: Hello Kitty woodmation: Design trope of the Aughties? A startlingly and winsomely concise design explication (now with UPDATE)
18. 2: Conversation with Steve Gilliard

August (printable version)

1. Olympics à Go-Go! A superspecial report on Olympic Web inanity!
   1. 20: Predictably engaging in the worst course of action
   2. 20: NBCOlympics.com: Even worse than television (with UPDATE)
   3. 26: Olympic convergence: The ongoing boondoggle
   4. IOC to athletes: Unplug or go home The IOC bans E-journos from Sydney. And that's just the start of its troubles
2. 31: Unexpected access: The Sound of Mucus
3. 30: A slow news week
   Slate, Slate, and more Slate. And you're trying to tell us AOL didn't buy Time Warner for its content?
4. 29: Attitude queens: A success story
   User-contributed content, chapter 2: Hissyfit et al., snarkiness, and the slush fund
5. 28: Aristotle, king of content
   More on the pre-computer origins of "content"
6. 27: Opening up accessibility
   Every effort to bring access features to online multimedia has gone mams-up. Here's how to do it right
7. 26: Newswatch: Recent links
8. 20: The first blog
9. 18: User-contributed content, Chapter 1
   Usenet: On its deathbed?
10. 14: Seth Godin gives away the store
    Books, like information, do not actually "want to be free"
11. 14: More krazy interface jazzola
12. 8: The blue pencil (Web version)
    Web sites make mistakes. What should they do when it happens?
13. 3: Fly, menu, fly!
    We used to love that DHTML flyout menu jazz, but this guy makes us wonder
14. 2: Interface and content, surface and depth
    A defense of interface, and much more, as content
15. 1: Skinning the Blog!
    Redesign the NUblog. And if we use your design, you can tell your friends

September (printable version)

1. 30: Slate: Mix ’n’ match – it’s interactive!
   Tiny, geeky new features masquerading as added value at the milquetoast content “destination”
2. 30: Interdisciplinarianism
   The music industry teaches us why content sites are so homogeneous and lowball
3. 30: Reclaiming Rugby League
   Fans rule. We knew that already
4. 30: If small is beautiful, what about Word?
   If Boo is worth buying, this surely is. Plunder this asset, baby
5. 30: Can we call ’em or what?
   Esquire tries new things. On the cheap
6. 10: Accessible E-commerce: Does it work or doesn't it?
7. 9: "You can't be serious!"
   Parody. Yes. Parody
8. 5: Is reading online all that hard?
   Paul Tough of Open Letters seems to think so. One word: Not!
9. 3: Accessibility: Mighty Olympics vanquished
   The Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games has, in effect, been found guilty of discrimination for producing an inaccessible Web site
10. 2: Nua: Right and wrong all at once
    Let's recap: Small is beautiful on content sites. Nua's own data prove it
11. 1: Slate: Anagrams to Stale

October (printable version)

1. 28: City sites are sexy
   MercuryCenter cashes in its good name... for what? A city portal?
2. 28: Digital film
   One more chance to blow it?
3. 28: Remember Usenet? (Still?)
   If Deja.com gets sold, the entire Usenet archive may go south
4. 28: Let a thousand Britneys bloom
   The right way to handle fan sites
5. 28: This just in: Content sells!
   E-commerce without content is an efficient way to lose your shirt
6. 28: How long should pages be?
7. 28: Hacking Jakob Nielsen
   Where did the usability potentate come from?
8. 28: Getting snowed by magazine editors
   A bit of fact-checking, please
9. 24: Printable versions (and a slow news week)
10. 18: Charming, that Brewster
    Brewster Kahle understands net-specifics
11. 18: Corrosive, that Joel
    Vicious, corrosive, damning: Words of high praise for Joel Ellis
12. 18: Interactive TV: A royal mess
13. 18: Content vs. service
    We have to explain to people that the net is composed mainly of service and content sites
14. 18: Weblogs for new users
15. 18: Might takes rights
    Another news item concerning the concentration of rapacious power in the stock-photo industry
16. 18: Condé Nast:
    Slowly getting it?
17. 13: The Web Is Like Canada
18. 12: Jaron Lanier: The underlying low-bandwidth form
    What does Space Invaders tell us about online content?
19. 12: Describing technical illustrations
20. 12: Bring us the head of Miss Boo
    Content for sales, or sales for content?
21. 12: When will Jakob Nielsen shut up?
    Cavalierly dissing the biodiversity of online user-created content
22. 8: How not to search
    Culpably unilingual search engines
23. 8: Krazy DHTML interface jazzola: Xbox
24. 8: We tire of Doulas Rushkoff
    What’s he so upset about?
25. 3: You can "quote" “us” on “that”
    Sigh. Another Netscape bug fixed, at typography’s cost
26. 3: Le contenu à l’invers
    Content sites outsource E-commerce. A perversion of nature, shurely?!
27. 3: Finding a voice, or at least hiring one
    One more time: Dare to be different. Nobody else is
28. 1: Nail ’em, Bruce!
    Sydney Olympics are set to lose, one more time, all for continued inaccessibility
29. 1: Murdochilingualism
    James (Not Rupert) Murdoch disses the unilingualists
30. 1: Nua sez: Content is invaluable!
    Except Gerry McGovern’s got it slightly wrong
31. 1: An unnatural duopoly
    In stock photography, your choices are Getty and Corbis. Make your selection now

November (printable version)

1. 29: AOLTV: Stillborn!
2. 23: Catching up
   NUblog hits 120 (and 800)
3. 23: TypoBlog
   An interview with two owners of leading typography sites
4. 22: The gay agenda
   PlanetOut now owns every American gay publishing entity of note. What’s wrong with this picture?
5. 22: Electronic books
   Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
6. 16: “You can always go on RickiLake.com”
   Are the Offspring mere providers of software?
7. 16: The Offspring is to Sony as...
   Chinks in the armour of the war against alleged online piracy
8. 16: Ananova:
   Not the spawn of Satan
9. 16: Focused online storytelling
   Maybe you can create community
10. 13: CommuniBlogger™
    Using present-day tools to build community online
11. 8: Schadenfreude
    ExtendMedia cans staff. Why? The world just isn’t ready for interactive TV. Right?
12. 7: Political “interactivity”
    A newspaper reviews political Web sites. We watch paint dry instead
13. 7: Internet fire sale
    Big fish should buy small fish. How novel
14. 7: eBay: “Viable on all platforms”?
    eBay dumps its print mag
15. 6: “All power ultimately arises from content depth”
    An interview with three fabbo site authors: Caroline van Oosten de Boer (U2log), Tom of Mad-Cow.org, and Stephen Maeder (Biketrials.com)
16. 1: Bitchy, bitchy, bitchy
    Did you hear that the music industry held a hack-off?
17. 1: Andy Wang, sharpest tool in the shed
18. 1: “Viable on all platforms”
    There’s that pesky money problem again
19. 1: ÜberBlogger
    What is better than the champeen Weblogging tool?
20. 1: Let a thousand Volvos bloom!
    More corporate oppression! of the glorious people’s fan sites

December (printable version)

1. 25: Broadband celestial jukeboxen at Farmclub!
   Online music distribution doesn’t work for unknown bands. Period
2. 18: Lingua america
   Blowing the details in multilingual sites
3. 17: Testing Web content
   Not rocket science
4. 17: And speaking of REI
   Still got it! (unless you’re Japanese)
5. 12: Sydney Olympics nailed
   The Olympics lose. Again. Men, women, children: Don’t let this happen to you
6. 12: Irish access
7. 12: Further AOLTV Schadenfreude
   You pick a Web site, it switches to CNN
8. 12: Newswatch: Recent links
9. 4: Skinning the blog, and everything else
   You’ve never had full control over the ultimate form of your “content,” and you have even less control now. Episode I: History; Episode II: Multiformat; Episode III: The problem with “repurposing”
10. 1: Plugola
    A plug for Flash access: Unclear on the concept
11. 1: National content restrictions:
    Heed the rule of law
    France has a right to tell Yahoo what to do

2001

January (printable version)

1. The Continuous News Desk
   The New York Times and instantaneous reporting (2001.01.28)
2. Metadata is sexy (2001.01.28)
3. This just in: Foreigners are foreign!
   Localization pays (2001.01.28)
4. More than one kind of writing
   Chunks aren’t the only way to go, but we can’t explain why, because that would require too many words, and by widespread consensus and kilianic decree, everyone on the Web is pathologically incapable of reading anything longer than a line of text in an AOL chatroom (2001.01.28)
5. Minor update: Archives now available by subject (2001.01.24)
6. Valley of the dolls
   Forced collaboration between writers from different genres is like mixing red 7s and blue 13s (2001.01.18)
7. Appointment with broadband
   Scheduling rich-media downloads: To what end? (2001.01.16)
8. Kids know “multi” when they see it
   TV and Internet, all at once! (but not together; 2001.01.16)
9. Digital film:
   Digital, yes; film, no (2001.01.14)
10. Newswatch: Recent links (2001.01.08)
11. Digital-TV interfaces
    No one wants it, it doesn’t work, and nothing’s compatible (2001.01.08)
12. Metadata, again
    Hiding search information in links (2001.01.08)

February

1. 27: New Porker
   NewYorker.com is worse than expected...
2. 27: The Bash AOL Show
   ...but AOLTV remains even worse
3. 27: Watson & Chervokas: Hominids at the typewriter
   Defining copyright out of existence. As if
4. 21: Cut the crap
   Automated text-only versions, skinning, and trial separation
5. 21: Add the crap
   People think clicking is interactivity. As if
6. 21: Blue and green cannot be seen
   Colourblindness: Tricky to test for
7. 21: Message boards: They still don’t work
   AOL Sports Warner censors a “message board,” predictably
8. 21: Testify!
   Small staffs are the way to go
9. 16: Newswatch: Recent links
10. 14: Links are content, or so say the Quebeckers
11. 13: Stick to English, Jim
    A Web consultant knows nothing about localization – but writes a whole column anyway!
12. 13: Jaron Lanier is so adorable!
    A dystopian future with no Napster and round-the-clock communism!
13. 13: The cost of community-building
    It costs more to maintain than develop. But we knew that
14. 12: Pipes earn more than water
    Content is not king. Connectivity earns more money. We knew that already
15. 11: Slate: Stepping boldly into the year 2000
    Twee milquetoast house organ trumpets its adoption of yesterday’s online storytelling concepts
16. 5: alt.fan.michael-wolff. die.die.die
    Writer at midsized magazine believes big is best, yet big cannot survive online
17. 5: It’s the Bash AOL Show!
    • 5: CNN: Stop making sense!
    • 5: AOLTV, an eWorld manqué
    • 5: Netscape, a Pathfinder manqué
18. 5: Newspapers-cum-portals
    Should newspapers specialize? Or stumble over the corpses of lapsed portals?
19. 5: Does interface boil down to logos?
20. 5: Snatchmailed news
21. 5: “ Provisional But Forever”
    Do we need to build in permissions for later adaptations of artworks?
22. 5: Further death knell for portals
    Hurry up and die already

Special reports

Olympix à Go-Go!
Reliably doing everything absolutely wrong every four years – now doing it online, too! (updated September 10)

MogulWatch!: Megalomania and the failure of convergence
LATEST ADD: The legitimate press clues in (September 10)

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