Brelson

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Why don’t I get Twitter?

July 15, 2008 - 10:07 am

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These days a lot of people like me are addicted to Twitter. Developers across the globe are coming up with interesting tools to visualise, aggregate and automatically syndicate Twitter content (or “tweets”). At conferences and speeches, audiences keep up a constant back-channel of chat using Twitter. I sporadically post to Twitter. But I don’t feel [...]

Word clouds and silver linings

July 14, 2008 - 11:29 am

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Recently I carried out some user testing on a late-beta website. At the end of each test session, participants were given a piece of paper listing over 100 adjectives – both positive and negative – and asked to tick the ones most applicable to the website they’d been using. As the week of testing came [...]

Online mind-mapping tools

July 14, 2008 - 10:10 am

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What are mind mapping tools? In short, they aim to visualise the conceptual relationships that make up the structure of thought. When used for project planning they allow you to break down the central objective into a set of smaller, inter-related items – these items can then be arranged hierarchically. The end result is an [...]