“Google slipped a social network into Reader last night while I was sleeping. There’s Google’s simple, easy, I’m-destined-to-use-it social network right there.”

My favourite is the one you have to step on in order to make it quiet.

Three of the most popular social networking sites on the Internet are not doing enough to protect their child users, an independent expert audit has concluded. But how much can be done?

Somebody asked me what I would like to do for a living. This. Research. And get paid well. I’ll continue dreaming.

Nielsen’s absolution: Web2.0 is not as bad as Flash.

“Just as children learn new vocabulary, so users learn the design language as they become more proficient users. When designers use the language precisely we can create a world which we can navigate without expending worthless effort.”

People have different “selves” for different places – virtual or otherwise – and designs must be consistent with these variety of selves.

How to produce a process whereby standards bodies can respond quickly to innovative ideas, and wherein innovators will encourage standardized, interoperable implementations of their ideas?

A free PDF, “holiday gift for loyal readers”, from Nielsen Group focusing on accessibility. From year 2001.