Fwd: Alertbox: Kindle 2 Usability Review

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From: alertbox@nngroup.com (Jakob Nielsen)
Date: March 9, 2009 7:10:00 AM PDT
To: "Alertbox Announcement List" <alertbox@laser.sparklist.com>
Subject: Alertbox: Kindle 2 Usability Review
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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for March 9 is now online at:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/kindle-usability-review.html

Summary:
Amazon's new e-book reader offers print-level readability and
shines for reading fiction, but it has awkward interaction design and
poor support for non-linear content.
   
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Usability Week 2009 conference

Washington DC, April 5-10

London, May 17-22

San Francisco, June 22-27

Sydney, July 27-August 1

In-depth training:

3-day camp on Usability in Practice

Specialized topics:

14 in-depth tutorials

Full program:

http://www.nngroup.com/events

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EXAMPLES WANTED:
Intranet Collaboration Features and Enterprise Social Networking

We are working on a new whitepaper on designing for "Enterprise 2.0",
including issues like:
  - Enterprise blogging, CEO blogs, employee blogs
  - Micro-blogging, mobile postings, Yammer etc.
  - Discussion forums
  - Wikis
  - "Internal Facebook" or "Internal LinkedIn"
  - Collaborative workspaces

Please help if you can contribute examples, screenshots, or case study
insights (whether positive lessons learned, or things to avoid).

More info:

http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/social

DEADLINE: This Wednesday, March 11

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Why You Should Think About Encouraging Others to Be Brilliant

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Why You Should Think About Encouraging Others to Be Brilliant

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.

It is a beautiful thing to create, to produce, to go out there in the world and make a contribution.

But it is just as important, if not more so, that we help others to do the same — that we teach others to create and produce, that we encourage them, that we support them and help them to succeed.

Why? Why not just worry about our own creations and productions? What's so important about helping others to succeed?

If you think of your work as a contribution to the world — great or small — then you can say you've made X amount of difference in making this world a better place.

But if you help 5 or 10 people make their contributions, you can say you've made perhaps 5X or 10X amount of difference in making this world a better place. You multiply your contribution.

And if, in doing so, you teach others to help still other people create and produce and make contributions, you've just added an exponent to your contribution … X squared, X to the power of 3 or 10 or whatever the number might be. OK, I'm not great at math, but you can see the point: the amount of difference made in this world not only multiplies, but keeps on multiplying beyond you.

Unfortunately, many people seem to have a problem with this concept. They tear people down, block them, hoard the goods for themselves, and are jealous of the success of others. We need to break free of this jealousy and meanness. We need to learn to be happy for others, and what's more, to count their success as our success and feel proud of the contribution we've made in helping others make a difference.

So go out in this world and create — make something brilliant, whether it be a piece of art or a book or music or a wonderful new invention or a world-changing business or whatever it is you do in the world.

But go beyond that. Teach others to be brilliant and make a difference. Encourage them to create, support them, give them a boost, help them succeed. And teach them to do the same with still other people.

The world will thank you for it. And even if you never receive thanks, know in your heart that you've done some good, that you've lit your light in this world that will last beyond your mortal years, that will continue to grow and burn brightly long after your dust has returned to dust and blown away in the wind.

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Stuart Halloway, author of "Programming Clojure", tells Susannah Pfalzer all about this new and cool programming language. Stuart explains how Clojure helps you move beyond noun-based programming toward verb-based programming, and why pure functions are important for concurrency. It's a lot of Lisp, but with Less parentheses--even fewer than Java itself. See how to be more expressive on the Java VM, and how Clojure is different from Scala and Groovy.

The Two Okinawan Diet Rules (or How I’m Getting Leaner During the Holidays)

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The Two Okinawan Diet Rules (or How I'm Getting Leaner During the Holidays)

Article by Leo Babauta. (Follow me on Twitter.)

Like many people, I tend to overeat during the holidays, from Thanksgiving through New Year's. It's kinda part of the tradition to consume huge amounts of food, you know?

And like many others, I also tend to gain weight during the holidays — some people can gain 5 or more pounds (though for most it's usually only a couple pounds).

Not this time around.

On Thanksgiving, while I enjoyed time with my family, and while everyone else pigged out, I ate moderately and wisely. And I felt great about it. I also got a great workout in the morning after — heavy deadlifts followed by two brutal 10-minute weight circuits and finished with 15 minutes of hard intervals.

This will be the healthiest holiday season ever for me. I'm also starting a meal plan and exercise routine that will have me drop some fat while gaining muscle by New Years, I promise. I'll publish more about this plan after I see the results (3 pounds dropped already).

But the really cool thing I started on Thanksgiving comes from the Okinawan people (who don't live too far away from my home, the beautiful island of Guam).

The Okinawan Diet Rules

The Okinawans (the indiginous people of the Ryukyu islands in Japan) are famous for having the longest life expectancy in the world. This single fact has had them studied from every angle, from diet to lifestyle to genetics to environment. And while all of these have played a factor, there's no doubt that their traditional diet has played a big part — when they eat a more modern, Western-style diet, they don't live as long or as healthy.

So what's their secret? Actually, there are two secrets (and they're not really secrets), and I used these rules to guide my eating on Thanksgiving (and beyond):

Rule 1. Eat to 80% full. The Okinawans call this rule "Hara Hachi Bu", and if you haven't tried it, you should. I did this on Thanksgiving — while I usually stuff myself with all the good food, I just ate until I was about 80% full. Of course, there's no way to know exactly how full you are, but it's a guideline. And as our brains are 10-20 minutes behind our stomachs, it usually turns out that when you think you're 80% full, you're actually full … while when we eat to 100% full, we are usually overstuffing ourselves.

The result of this rule for Okinawans is that they end up eating fewer calories than most people. They tend not to gain too much weight as a result, and coupled with their active lifestyles (they farm and garden and ...

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