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January 10, 2003
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Is anyone else finding that SIGIA and CHI-WEB are pretty much useless reading anymore? SIGIA has become half bickering about semantics and half complaining that bickerig over semantics keeps the field from getting respect.
CHI-WEB seems to have devolved into a site-check request list: "My client uses a drop down box that's colored gray. What's your professional opinion on this? Can anyone send me research studies by major universities that prove or disprove the usability of the color gray?"
Posted by Andrew at January 10, 2003 11:11 AM
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I left SIGIA a few months ago because I become tired of filtering through the bickering and complaining.
I still find CHI-WEB useful because it's relatively low volume and the summaries often provide me with usability information that I can use and enjoy.
Posted by: Joshua Kaufman at January 10, 2003 11:24 AM
Maybe you're right, although I'd rather search CHI-WEB archives than sift through it on a daily basis. SIGIA barely escaped my unsubscription when they belatedly moved to real listserv software which put message subjects in the heading of the daily digest.
But, it's just not worth it anymore. Anything worthwhile eventually makes it to iaslash.org anyway. So I unsubscribed.
Posted by: Andrew at January 10, 2003 12:17 PM
As the one that kicked off the "information" thread, let me say I am so very sorry. I was only after some soundbite quotes and the damn thread mutated :-(
I did like where the sitepath discussion went though.
Posted by: Eric Scheid at January 10, 2003 07:42 PM