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Imaginary Landscape Buzz

View our complete Buzz Blog archive below, sorted in reverse chronological order by year and month.

2010

March

• Marketing trumps user experience, again

February

• How cool is this?
• It's America's Cup time
• Funny call-in from a direct mail piece

January

• Lunch tip awkwardness
• Weighing in on the great New Trier debate

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2009

December

• A great ecommerce confirmation message

November

• chicagodjango.com: lots of fun to make

October

• Predicting Internet addiction in adolescents
• Online fraud protection goes to Sillytown

September

• Keeping the children safe from tyranny
• Django/Python as the basis for a new market
• A small example of viral Twitter
• On cell phones and riding the Metra
• Stark example of poor user interaction

August

• The arrogance of design
• Anyone remember the America's Cup?

July

• Keep masking passwords, for now
• Apple vs. Microsoft, Microsoft vs. Apple: It's just so tedious
• Political influence in admissions? I'm shocked.
• Choose your Tweets (and landlord) wisely

June

• An app in search of a name
• Financial crisis? It's the University of Chicago's fault

May

• A Tribute to Trek
• Resolution to absurdity

April

• Caught in the jaws of the absurd
• Strange reason to be shown the door
• Update on absurdity
• A case study in the value of Twitter

March

• The Importance of Daily Briefings
• The power of the sales bell

January

• Target pays for Web accessibility mistake
• New government transparency in action
• What is the deal with "Evangelists"?

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2008

December

• Embarassed to be from Illinois
• Web developer lets Bush domain expire, pays $35,000

November

• A study in patience and rudeness: my wait in line at Kinko's

October

• Beer goggles? Gmail to the rescue
• A thought about awards

September

• It's new, it's shiny and it's Chrome
• Who has the power?

August

• Conference presentations a bittersweet honor
• Form security, under the hood

July

• Colbert Bump a scientific reality
• Loss of T1 allows vendors to shine
• The music industry, once again, goes crazy

June

• New study compares short and long "contact us" forms
• Comcast employee hits a home run with unofficial presentation

May

• Customs can now examine and seize laptops, PDAs with no probable cause
• Online tax inching closer
• Taking the plunge into Gmail

April

• Using the Internet to cause seizures
• Email never arrived? Maybe it was lost in a black hole
• PyCon sponsorship and a booth banner
• Let's rap about search engine marketing

March

• What type of client are you?
• Store reaction to bad incident amplified by blog; CEO to the rescue
• The worst designed Web site on the Internet

February

• The science of increasing the speed of your site
• Who controls your domain name?
• Are Web forms really secure?

January

• The Way Back Machine, great service and loads of fun
• I'm "Getting Things Done"

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2007

December

• 95% of email is spam
• Proposals really do matter?
• Review Board a great tool for catching code errors

November

• Listening to an Internet punk
• Rackspace outage a rarity
• New eyetracking study yields surprising findings

October

• What NOT to feature on your home page
• How to make sure you always have the current copyright year in your footer
• The genesis of a users group, part 1
• Web site accessibility takes a front seat
• UW Madison adds doctor videos to Web site

September

• Contracts, the bane of existence
• The placement of links on a page affects click rates
• Welcome to the Imaginary Landscape Buzz Blog - our foray into the world of company blogs
• Where are all the thank you letters?

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