[ via GeneHack ] Friends have accused me of having a Howard Beale-like zeal when it comes to the ethics of marketing on the Web. So the paraphrased quote at the bottom of this Privacy Digest article on Double-Click joining their data with that of Abacus pleased me greatly. Note that Double-Click tried pulling the [...]
At the peak of Hurricane Floyd, weather sites like Accuweather were reaching 100 million/page views a day. Internet Week discusses how weather and news sites managed the traffic spike.
[ from All Things Web ] “In the latter days of the 20th-century, the World Wide Web bears an uncanny resemblance to the automated looms of 19-century England. With over 1,000 different clients, countless plug-ins, woefully misnamed `helper’ apps, and other assorted gizmos, there are a lot of points of failure. It is sometimes fragile, [...]
The latest iteration of an analysis of a random sample of Web pages finds that page size is creeping upwards, and linkrot remains a problem.
Jakob Nielsen says that three years of evolution on the Web has spawned another set of mistakes, while the old ones linger. The new mistakes include: pop-up windows, links that make no sense out of context, and ads.
Delta Airlines recinded their plan to add a $2 surcharge to any ticket not purchased via the Web. I guess it was either that or make the site accessible. Link
A friend in the travel industry mentioned that Delta will charge anyone, including agents, a two dollar surcharge on any ticket not purchased through their Web site. This is the output of checking Delta’s site against the BOBBY accessiblity tool at CAST. It doesn’t pass muster. So if you’re blind or otherwise differently abled and [...]
Keith Dawson outlines some techniques for working through large amounts of content, and some regular expressions you can use to transform news site URLs into their printer friendly versions (which have much less fat and ads.) I have to wonder if one of the reasons we aren’t seeing style sheets take hold is that by [...]
I think William Raspberry should had checked out this site before he made a fool out of himself with his rant about public, web-based kiosks for transit schedules that the disabled could not use. Link