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| About
UsabilityViews.com
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| Who runs this site ? |
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Christopher Sean McEvoy, otherwise known as Chris McEvoy or Mac. My blog is called Confusability. I also publish a site called usabilitymustdie.com which contains some pictures of me. I live in the United Kingdom in a city called Bristol. You may also be interested in my WebWord and Joel On Software statistics, which provide a different view of two weblogs. I also maintain two sites that use Amazon Web Services to present extracts from Amazon: Topazon and BookRank. I also publish a set of statistics relating to Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox Articles, based around my view that "Alertbox is Dead". |
| How often is it updated ? |
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I update the site once or twice a week, although it may be a bit less
frequent if I am on holiday. |
| Who and what are the 'Userati' ? |
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"Userati - A group of people concerned with issues relating to
software and users, who are known to their peers." In December 2002 I decided to try and build a web page that showed connections between different people who work in, or have been influential in the field of usability. I christened this group "The Userati". I want to discover and create connections between people who may share a common interest in improving the lot of humans when they use computer software. You may also want to take a look at the Finderati. I update the pages about once a week. |
| How do you calculate the userati connections score? |
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In a nutshell - Google. I take two names like "Jakob Nielsen" and "Ted Nelson", and using Google I search for web pages that contain these two names. I can also have one alternate name for each person, so using the same example I would search for "Jakob Nielsen" OR "Dr Nielsen" "Ted Nelson" OR "Theodor Holm Nelson". I will then go to the last page of Google results and get the number of connections from there. Next I perform the same search in Usenet using the Google Groups Search. I then add the two numbers together to get the 'connections score'. |
| How do you calculate the userati ranking score? |
((Connection Ranking / (Number Of Userati / 100)) + (Site Mentions Ranking / (Number Of Userati / 100)) + (HCI Bibliography Ranking / (Number Of Userati / 100))) / 3 For someone with rankings of 31 of 119 for Connections, 55 of 199 for Site Mentions and 5 of 119 for HCI-BIB the userati ranking would be : ((31 / (119 / 100)) + (55 / (119 / 100)) + (5 / (119 / 100))) / 3 = (26.02 + 46.22 + 4.2) / 3 = 25.49 |
| What an ugly picture of me! |
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If you appear on this site and would like to provide an alternative picture.
Please e-mail one to me at chris@firstcircle.co.uk
and I will update it on this site. |
| You haven't answered my question! |
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Send your question to me at chris@firstcircle.co.uk
and I will do my best to add the answer to this page. |
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