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September 2002 Archives

Email Marketing Usability
Jakob Nielsen turns to a subject dear to my heart: the improving your email newsletters to enhance the reader experience.
September 30, 2002 - 291 words

Banana Republic
Hartlepool, England has elected a monkey for mayor.
September 27, 2002 - 55 words

Internet MLS discussion
The National Association of Realtors is considering a ruling that will prevent brokers from displaying full property data on the Web. Read how this might help consumers.
September 26, 2002 - 897 words, 14 comments

The Amazing Google
I needed a driver for a product, but I didn’t know who made it. This sounds like a job for Google.
September 24, 2002 - 286 words, 2 comments

Creating a comments feed
How to create an RSS feed of your recent comments in Movable Type.
September 20, 2002 - 151 words, 9 comments

Movable Designs
Stolen MT designs show up in Radio.
September 19, 2002 - 35 words, 3 comments

Agile requirements
How to use solid requirements management principles in an agile environment.
September 19, 2002 - 187 words

A reason to buy
Anti-piracy measures that reward music fans instead of punishing them.
September 18, 2002 - 186 words, 3 comments

Worth quoting
"The problem is that few portals... have much in the way of content management functionality..."
September 17, 2002 - 52 words

Comments feed
An RSS feed that contains the comments on items in this weblog. Keep up to date on the comments without repeatedly checking the site.
September 17, 2002 - 93 words, 8 comments

GPL restricts innovation?
LawMeme looks at government-sponsored open source software.
September 17, 2002 - 32 words

Chinese filtering check
Is access to your Web site being blocked by the Chinese government? Here’s how you can find out.
September 16, 2002 - 68 words

Agile gloss
Can agile methodolgies work on large-scale projects? This New Architect article promises to tell us, but it doesn’t quite make it.
September 13, 2002 - 246 words, 5 comments

Recent Comments bug fix
A simple fix for a MySQL bug that kept Movable Type from displaying recent comments correctly.
September 10, 2002 - 304 words

Wireless Adoption
At the real estate softare company where I used to work, our WAP product won us sales, but nobody bought it.
September 10, 2002 - 501 words

Search box patterns
A thorough analysis of search interfaces.
September 9, 2002 - 68 words

Usability test serendipity
Marketers can use usability testing to build a better product.
September 9, 2002 - 67 words

RSS for publishers
Mark Nottingham’s introduction to RSS for content publishers.
September 9, 2002 - 58 words

Landspeeder for sale
A full-size Star Wars Land Speeder for sale on eBay.
September 5, 2002 - 32 words, 4 comments

eGray
A well-executed use of online satire in the California Governor’s race.
September 4, 2002 - 95 words, 4 comments

Opportunity lost
Improve the customer experience of automated emails.
September 3, 2002 - 638 words, 1 comment

KM Myths
These seven Knowledge Management mistakes happen in a variety of software implementations.
September 3, 2002 - 73 words

SpamAssassin plugin for Eudora
Users of Eudora can de-spam their mailbox with this free plugin.
September 3, 2002 - 49 words, 3 comments

IMAPAssassin
Filter your mail with SpamAssassin from your desktop over IMAP.
September 3, 2002 - 56 words, 3 comments

DoubleClick's privacy settlement
A quick overview of the events leading to DoubleClick’s privacy settlement.
September 2, 2002 - 104 words

Labor Day origins
Why is the first Monday in September a national holiday?
September 2, 2002 - 65 words

Google woes
Why won’t Google provide a more complete description?
September 1, 2002 - 69 words, 1 comment