More Deansburyblogging

Today, from Garry Trudeau:

(Ed: Of course, this is further evidence that we've all jumped the shark.)

Posted by Alan at July 18, 2003 07:50 AM | TrackBack

Alan

The article you linked reminded me of something surprising I’ve recently discovered:

Keeping in mind that I live in San Francisco, a city in which computer and Internet professionals are coming out of the woodwork, I actually have found that 90% of the people here I mention blogs to, in casual conversation, at parties, etc, then have to ‘splain, still have no idea what I’m talking about.

They’ve never even heard of them.

In the few short months I’ve been going to various blogs, CP my favorite, I’ve found myself giving less and less priority to mainstream media venues as I find myself learning more about a lot of different topics via blogs than I can from reading the papers and watching the news on TV. I am hooked.

Now it seems amazing to me that blogs’ existences are still as little known as they are.

I can guarantee they won’t get any promotion from mainstream media, because they are perceived as a threat by those people.

But thank God for y’all!

Posted by: Seth at July 19, 2003 01:19 AM

is it just me or is doonesbury not even funny?
keep the funny pages as they should be..
funny
i used to hate it when i was little and they packed our local newspaper full of stupid funnies like mary worth and all those other soap comics. political ones are even worse..
we need more far side

Posted by: gijoe at July 19, 2003 01:13 PM

I agree.
I can never get enough Far Side.

Posted by: Seth at July 19, 2003 01:23 PM

I think so

Posted by: phentermine at December 10, 2003 10:25 AM

Not quite as entertaining as Shrek, but Dock animation can be an important and useful function in your application. For example, Dock animation is a helpful way to indicate the status of your application.

Posted by: Geoffrey at January 24, 2004 03:30 AM

User Assistance. This is helping the user with the proper “next step” when performing a task. Less guesswork for the user on what to do next makes for a better experience.

Posted by: Reginald at January 24, 2004 03:31 AM

For example, if you see an AIM window peeking out from behind your browser and you click on it, that window will come to the front, but the main application window will not. The Mail.app/Activity Viewer is another example. The Aqua system of layers works well in many instances, but not in all. Thank goodness that the Dock is always there to come to the rescue. I know that clicking on an application icon in the Dock will always result in not only the application coming to the front, but also any non-minimized windows associated with it. And if the application is active but no windows are open, clicking on the Dock icon should create a new window in that application.

Posted by: Didimus at January 24, 2004 03:33 AM