Free from Nielsen Norman Group: Beyond ALT Text, Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities, a report on web design for users with disabilities. “Seventy-five best practices for design of websites and intranets, based on usability studies with people who use assistive technology” According to the blog post, usability is three times [...]

Posted December 18, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: accessibility, jakob nielsen, report, usability. 7 Comments.

A Pentagon commissioned $400,000 RAND study, Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation, concludes “the ‘force’ brand, which the United States peddled for the first few years of the occupation, was doomed from the start and lost ground to enemies’ competing brands.”
Army, iraq, show of force, brand, identity, [...]

Posted September 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Politics & Controversy. Tags: Army, brand, identity, iraq, military operations, RAND, report, show of force. One Comment.

I’d never heard of the New Media Consortium before, but they claim a mission to “advocate and stimulate the use of new learning and creative technologies in higher education.” Anyway, their 2006 Horizon Report identifies the following trends among those shaping the role of technology in education:

Dynamic knowledge creation and social computing tools and processes [...]

Posted February 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 2006 horizon report, education, internet use, New Media Consortium, new tech, nmc, report, tech horizons, technology in education. Be the first one.

Somebody at Gizmodo found this Agence France-Presse story about the intersection of American surfing and bathroom habits in The Hindustan Times. It’s based on a report by the USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future. For five years running now, the center has tracked internet use (and non-use) in a 2,000 household representative sample [...]

Posted December 10, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: bathroom, behavior, Center for the Digital Future, computer use, in the bathroom, in the can, media, newspaper, on the throne, report, research, restroom, rss, Technology, wifi. 51 Comments.

This should be no surprise — especially to those who’ve been appropriately concerned about electronic voting machines: Lyn Davis Lear is reporting on a GAO report that concluded the 2004 election was fraudulent and a Diebold insider is blowing the whistle (via Engadget).
What does the report confirm? Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman summarize:

Some electronic voting [...]

Posted December 9, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: 2004, bush, confirmed, conspiracy, democracy, election, findings, fraud, gao, george bush, george w bush, ohio, report, selection, stolen, w. 2 Comments.

So, the report was released Monday, and it’s actually titled Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), but the part I’m highlighting here is the results of the question that asked users to compare their experiences with search engines against their experiences with libraries.
Here’s the quesiton:
Satisfaction with the Librarian and the Search Engine — by [...]

Posted December 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: compare, future, google, google economy, internet, libraries, library, library 2.0, library20, oclc, oclc report, perception, perceptions, Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (200, report, search engine, search engines, user behavior. 4 Comments.

According to the recently released Pew Internet report on online activities:
On an average day, about 94 million American adults use the internet; 77% will use email, 63% will use a search engine.
Among all the online activities tracked, including chatting and IMing, reading blogs or news, banking, and buying, not one of them includes searching a [...]

Posted November 23, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: google, google vs. the opac, libraries, library, library catalog, opac, pew internet, pew internet and american life project, report, search engine, search engines. 10 Comments.

As much as I like the bstat functionality of bsuite, I never intended it to be a replacement for a full server log-based stats application. That’s why I’m happy my hosting provider offers AWStats. The reports suggested ways to optimize my pages so that I could control my bandwidth consumption — up to 3.7GB/day before [...]

Posted August 29, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: awstat, awstats, bandwidth consumption, email, http, log files, mail stats, optimize, report, reports, server log, web stats. Be the first one.

Gary Wolf wrote in the June issue of Wired about how smart mobs in New York’s World Trade Center outbrained the “authorities” and enjoyed higher survival rates because of it. Wolf is talking about the NIST report on Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communications (warning: PDFs). There’s also this executive summary and this looks like [...]

Posted June 2, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: authorities, authority, blackberries, civil engineers, communications, defense, disaster, disobey, egress, elevators, emergency, evacuees, question, question authority, report, review, security, smartmob. 3 Comments.